Standard Heel Flap

March 16th, 2007

Top Down (Click to enlarge)

Toe Up (Click to enlarge)

Details: Generally with this style of heel you separate a number of stitches and begin knitting flat back and forth to create a flap. Then you pick up the stitches on the sides of the flap, and knit all three sides of the flap (the picked up sides, and the top), and the remaining stitches that were set aside to continue knitting around. Finally, a decreasing gusset is knit to bring you back to the original number of stitches.

Advantages: The gusset of this heel tends to fit well to feet with a noticeable arch. I find this heel is more suited naturally to the shape of a foot, unless of course you have wide or flat feet. If such is the case, then you may want to decrease fewer stitches on the gusset, or rspan class=”s-compendium”ove it entirely.

Disadvantages: The construction of the heel can be a bit complicated, and there are more steps to rspan class=”s-compendium”span class=”s-compendium”ber than some heels. Also, some people get very loose stitches on the picked up stitches (especially when they aren’t knit twisted), which can create a row of small holes on each side.

Learn How

• Heels by Number

Have something to add? Please leave a comment! It may be added to the article.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 1:47 pm and is filed under Heel Compendium, Knitting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.