Genius! Love it. Knitting a pair of socks with self-striping yarn now and was concerned about how difficult it would be picking up stitches. Thank you for this.
This is genius!!! An afterthought heel with no fuss!! And adding all the techniques in your video on alternative decreases for great looking peasant heels (which also shows a great way to prevent holes) is the icing on the cake!
I just tried my first toe up sock and when it came time to do the heel, what a disaster. Ended up ripping the whole thing out. When I removed the waste yarn, most of my stitches were coming undone. This method looks like it will actually work for me. Thank you so much for the video, I shall try it again.
As a relatively new knitter, I LOVE your videos. I am blown away by your depth and breadth of knowledge on knitting. I have recently gotten into sock knitting and your videos are my go-to for new techniques. I am in a bind at the moment though - I got ahead of myself knitting a toe-up sock with an afterthought heel. Instead of putting the waste yarn on only the heel stitches, I put them ALL the way around. I can still get to the heel stitches and knit my heel, but I don't know what to do with the ugly non-matching line of waste yarn that is running across the top of my socks. Do you have a solution for this problem?
Capture the sts on either side of the waste yarn, pick it out, and then graft the two sets of sts together. YOu can use the Kitchener stitch method, or you can use the Finchley graft.
I hate after thought heels and except for Sock Madness patterns perhaps that demanded we knit exactly as written years ago, never do them. Daughter requested yoga socks. Just picked up a hot a mess of waste yarn stitches and finished yoga sock #1. There's got to be a better way? Trying this!
😀😀😀👏👏👏👏👏 I have a high instep and I ware out the bottom of my heel, on the bottom of my foot. That's where I need to reinforce. Now I have different ideas to try!!!
Very nice, thank you! I do it a little bit disferent: I knit my heel (sometimes, only when I want knit it afterwarts)as if I knit a yoyo - sock and then I take one leg from the cast of /cast on to put a stitch out of it. So I don't need to bring my "knitting half" on a wasted yarn and it's so easy to make stitches out of a cast on /of. The one stitch that 's missing I take by making an extra stitch immediatly when Iknit the second row. But your idea to work with a wasted yarn I allways use when I have to cast on at one side of the work. It was a fantastic video, you explain for beginners and for people who knit for years and years. You show several times what you want us to notice and you speak fluently but slowly enough for everyone. I'm coming from good old Germany and I love to watch and listen to your videos from my very first knit [no one here has enough time and nerves to show me knitting here, most people can't knit but now some want my socks :) ] allthough I'm badly handicaped. You several times showed me to make it happen not to give up. I thank you and I pray for you. Be blessed by our LORD! All the best to you and your beloved!
Hi Roxanne. Have you done a video on how to re-do a heel (sock having been done top-down method) once the heel is worn. I'm thinking there must be a way to preserve the foot/toe part as well as the leg part and just re-work the worn heel?
I am doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out how to fix it. This seems so simple. I have knit a sample multiple times, but it keeps being a fail. I put the stitches on the waste yarn, and cast on the new stitches in the long tail cast on, but my working yarn ends up being in the wrong place. I know that the two rows of waste yarn have to be on either side of the opening, but the working yarn is directly to the right, where it was before I slipped the first set of stitches onto the waste yarn. I cannot just continue to knit in the round. I’ve tried with two circulars, and Magic Loop (which I hate). Can’t imagine it would make a difference if I switched to DPN’s. I’ve tried twisting things around until everything became hopelessly tangled. What am I missing? Hope you will see this. I looked on the Ravelry group, and I don’t see any discussion. Starting to think I’m an idiot. I REALLY want to be able to do this!
Going to try one more time, and will follow up on the group. Thought that would be the most helpful, but I’m not great at posting photos there. Thanks for your prompt response. Happy New Year! 😊
I watched your short row heel and peasant heel sizing videos, but getting the stitches on the needles was horrible. Now I feel like I can go ahead and put in peasant heels in my striped socks. At least, I'll give it a try.
A peasant heel can be an afterthought heel or a forethought heel, depending on whether you plan ahead for the heel placement (forethought) with waste yarn, or wait until later to decide where to open up the heel. Many knitters will call a forethought peasant heel an afterthought heel, even though it's not an accurate description.
It's the same issue, regardless. I use a combination of duplicate stitch and cinching on the backside by running a strand of yarn through the purl bumps on the WS. You could use whatever your standard method is of dealing with holes at the corners. I have a couple of videos from this past spring that deal with holes at the corners.
Roxanne Richardson Thanks for your input. It appears that those pesky holes are always to be dealt with regardless of method used. I really look forward to trying your method because I always had a problem with the traditional waste yarn method. Your method doesn't seem as fiddly.
The holes are not due to "bad" knitting, but are because of the directionality of the knitting (the top of the heel opening is worked in the opposite direction it was originally worked). This creates an offset at the edges. There are lots of ways of dealing with it, including picking up extra sts at the corners and decreasing them out later.
Do you mean the Italian tubular CO? That one is usually done around the starting tail, and later pulled out. Since there isn't a starting tail of the MC yarn, and the point isn't to create a tubular CO, I'm not sure how it would be to any advantage. You could substitute a different PCO method (one using waste yarn). I tried at least one alternative PCO, and didn't find that it worked as well, but what does/doesn't work for me isn't necessarily going to be true for you. I would suggest knitting a heel swatch, as I have done in the video, and experimenting with your idea. You will learn more that way, anyway.
Genius! Love it. Knitting a pair of socks with self-striping yarn now and was concerned about how difficult it would be picking up stitches. Thank you for this.
This is genius!!! An afterthought heel with no fuss!! And adding all the techniques in your video on alternative decreases for great looking peasant heels (which also shows a great way to prevent holes) is the icing on the cake!
THIS…. Thank you 🙏
I have been so nervous about my first contrast color afterthought heel.
Gosh that is clever. Thank you for sharing your wonderful guides to make things easier.
I just tried my first toe up sock and when it came time to do the heel, what a disaster. Ended up ripping the whole thing out. When I removed the waste yarn, most of my stitches were coming undone. This method looks like it will actually work for me. Thank you so much for the video, I shall try it again.
Rox, you're a genius! I bet EZ would be impressed.
As a relatively new knitter, I LOVE your videos. I am blown away by your depth and breadth of knowledge on knitting. I have recently gotten into sock knitting and your videos are my go-to for new techniques. I am in a bind at the moment though - I got ahead of myself knitting a toe-up sock with an afterthought heel. Instead of putting the waste yarn on only the heel stitches, I put them ALL the way around. I can still get to the heel stitches and knit my heel, but I don't know what to do with the ugly non-matching line of waste yarn that is running across the top of my socks. Do you have a solution for this problem?
Capture the sts on either side of the waste yarn, pick it out, and then graft the two sets of sts together. YOu can use the Kitchener stitch method, or you can use the Finchley graft.
I love your alternate method with the lifeline...it's a keeper! Thank you!
Brilliant Roxanne! Thank you
This is wonderful! So easy and smart.I actually ripped back (only a little bit) my current sock leg to try this. Thank you.
You're so welcome!
I hate after thought heels and except for Sock Madness patterns perhaps that demanded we knit exactly as written years ago, never do them. Daughter requested yoga socks. Just picked up a hot a mess of waste yarn stitches and finished yoga sock #1. There's got to be a better way? Trying this!
well thought out, terse, and clear. Thank you
😀😀😀👏👏👏👏👏 I have a high instep and I ware out the bottom of my heel, on the bottom of my foot. That's where I need to reinforce. Now I have different ideas to try!!!
I always love your techniques. Thank you Roxanne.
Just watched this and you’re a genius! I didn’t mind picking up the stitches, but this seems sooooooooo much easier! Thank you for sharing this!
You are amazing! I keep coming back to your videos whenever I have a knitting problem! Thank you so much for your videos!
Fantastic.... I always use "after thought" heels and this is an awesome way to save the stitches. Thanks.
Excellent explanation, thanks.
Very nice, thank you! I do it a little bit disferent: I knit my heel (sometimes, only when I want knit it afterwarts)as if I knit a yoyo - sock and then I take one leg from the cast of /cast on to put a stitch out of it. So I don't need to bring my "knitting half" on a wasted yarn and it's so easy to make stitches out of a cast on /of. The one stitch that 's missing I take by making an extra stitch immediatly when Iknit the second row. But your idea to work with a wasted yarn I allways use when I have to cast on at one side of the work. It was a fantastic video, you explain for beginners and for people who knit for years and years. You show several times what you want us to notice and you speak fluently but slowly enough for everyone. I'm coming from good old Germany and I love to watch and listen to your videos from my very first knit [no one here has enough time and nerves to show me knitting here, most people can't knit but now some want my socks :) ] allthough I'm badly handicaped. You several times showed me to make it happen not to give up. I thank you and I pray for you. Be blessed by our LORD! All the best to you and your beloved!
This is brilliant! I've been want to try it, but didn't look forward to picking up the stitches. Thank you 😊
I use your magic provisional cast on (crochet) for the "new" side, and leave the stitches on the needles for the old side.
This is brilliant! Thank you very much.
That is marvelous. You do indeed rock!
Thanks for yet another great video and a nifty idea
I'm glad you liked it! :-)
Brilliant !!!
Sandra Polichino yes
Sandra Polichino I so agree❣️
Awesome thanks 😊
That is so smart.
I love this! It's going to be so helpful when I try this out.
Absolutely genius!
Very clever, thank you.
Thank you so much! ❤️😁👍🏻
Genius, I wish I had seen this before.
Always such fascinating ideas!
Hi Roxanne. Have you done a video on how to re-do a heel (sock having been done top-down method) once the heel is worn. I'm thinking there must be a way to preserve the foot/toe part as well as the leg part and just re-work the worn heel?
Very clever!
Clever, clever!!
I am doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out how to fix it. This seems so simple. I have knit a sample multiple times, but it keeps being a fail. I put the stitches on the waste yarn, and cast on the new stitches in the long tail cast on, but my working yarn ends up being in the wrong place. I know that the two rows of waste yarn have to be on either side of the opening, but the working yarn is directly to the right, where it was before I slipped the first set of stitches onto the waste yarn.
I cannot just continue to knit in the round. I’ve tried with two circulars, and Magic Loop (which I hate). Can’t imagine it would make a difference if I switched to DPN’s. I’ve tried twisting things around until everything became hopelessly tangled.
What am I missing? Hope you will see this. I looked on the Ravelry group, and I don’t see any discussion. Starting to think I’m an idiot. I REALLY want to be able to do this!
You can post your question in the Ravelry group, along with a photo, and maybe we can figure out what it is that's going wrong.
Going to try one more time, and will follow up on the group. Thought that would be the most helpful, but I’m not great at posting photos there. Thanks for your prompt response. Happy New Year! 😊
I watched your short row heel and peasant heel sizing videos, but getting the stitches on the needles was horrible. Now I feel like I can go ahead and put in peasant heels in my striped socks. At least, I'll give it a try.
Brilliant!
Can this work on a toe up sock? I used GSR heel for my self striping yarn and it made the stripes messy.
Does it matter if you are doing cuff down versus toe up? Does it work either way?
The heel is symmetrical and works the same in both directions.
Thank you very much for this! Is a peasant heel the same as an afterthought heel?
A peasant heel can be an afterthought heel or a forethought heel, depending on whether you plan ahead for the heel placement (forethought) with waste yarn, or wait until later to decide where to open up the heel. Many knitters will call a forethought peasant heel an afterthought heel, even though it's not an accurate description.
Would a Twisted German cast on work, or is that too bulky?
You can use any cast on you like. It's going to be snipped out and removed later, so it really doesn't matter.
Saudações.
Do you have much a problem with holes at the corners, using this method?
It's the same issue, regardless. I use a combination of duplicate stitch and cinching on the backside by running a strand of yarn through the purl bumps on the WS. You could use whatever your standard method is of dealing with holes at the corners. I have a couple of videos from this past spring that deal with holes at the corners.
Roxanne Richardson Thanks for your input. It appears that those pesky holes are always to be dealt with regardless of method used. I really look forward to trying your method because I always had a problem with the traditional waste yarn method. Your method doesn't seem as fiddly.
The holes are not due to "bad" knitting, but are because of the directionality of the knitting (the top of the heel opening is worked in the opposite direction it was originally worked). This creates an offset at the edges. There are lots of ways of dealing with it, including picking up extra sts at the corners and decreasing them out later.
Would an Italian CO work instead of the LTCO?
Do you mean the Italian tubular CO? That one is usually done around the starting tail, and later pulled out. Since there isn't a starting tail of the MC yarn, and the point isn't to create a tubular CO, I'm not sure how it would be to any advantage. You could substitute a different PCO method (one using waste yarn). I tried at least one alternative PCO, and didn't find that it worked as well, but what does/doesn't work for me isn't necessarily going to be true for you. I would suggest knitting a heel swatch, as I have done in the video, and experimenting with your idea. You will learn more that way, anyway.
Réal l'y Nice THANK YOU
I'm glad you liked it! :-)
You skip steps and than u don’t knit the heel
You missed the point of the video which was the set up and loading of the stitches.