How to Knit Socks Magic Loop: #3 - Heel Flap and Gusset

How to Knit Socks Magic Loop: #3 - Heel Flap and Gusset | Summer Lee Design Co.

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This sock knitting tutorial video will teach you how to knit your heel flap, heel turn, and gusset! This tutorial follows the free I'm So Basic sock pattern available here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
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@roseflowers7641 3 жыл бұрын

I find using a very small crochet hook is much easier to use to pick up the gusset stitches. I pick up a stitch using the crochet hook and then put the stitch on my knitting needle. for me this is much easier and faster.

@jenniferberry7743 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video! This is the best video explaining the heel, flap and gusset - I know because I’ve watched so many! 😂 Your explanation of the construction and the reason for the stitches so helps to take away the mystery/fear of knitting this section!

@maddie8448 2 жыл бұрын

Easiest heel flap and gusset ever! And it's clean looking and durable too. I'm so grateful that I found you. You are an excellent teacher and take the time to give clear instructions. Can't thank you enough.

@GoldStarWork 3 жыл бұрын

20 mins for gusset this is a great tutorial

@deboraharnold8587 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, this is the best way to pick up stitches for the gusset! Why haven’t I learned this before? 😄 Thank you!

@arianeknits 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this series, it's so helpful to see each step! I'm watching everything before starting since I don't have the materials yet but I'll rewatch them as I knit my first pair of socks for sure!

@jacquedooley1577 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I feel you are taking the fear out of sock knitting heel flap and gusset. It seems so understandable now. Thank you.

@muddleandmuss 2 жыл бұрын

I finally finished my first sock after years of trying and giving up! Completely due to this wonderful tutorial and your easy to follow pattern! Thank you so much!

@platinumorange1 Жыл бұрын

This is the best thing I have watched in weeks! You are an amazing teacher. Thank you!

@francarottura6447 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I have finished one sock. First attempt at knitting. Thanks again😊😊

@milenakoch9252 3 жыл бұрын

Your tutorials are great! I've been crocheting for years and have always been way more comfortable with crochet than with knitting. Decided to challenge myself and try to knit socks for the first time - I did not think that I would get there! The first one is done now, the second one in the making. Your explanations and the pattern are super helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so much :)

@Synonymforsilence 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so grateful to you. I made a second sock with this heel and all thanks to you. I'm a beginner and still exploring different types of heels. For the other socks - I've made shadow wrap short row heel and I absolutely love how it looks but even though I made sure I was doing everything correctly I just couldn't get it to fit my or my husband's heels, they were always too big and deep. BUT with your great tutorial even the test heel was a great fit. I absolutely love how it is shaped and how it fits and feels. Thank you for absolutely amazing and understandable tutorial which helped me so much! Also, love the colors 💖 subscribing! 💞

@elizasereda4397 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial. I just finished my first pair of socks.

@madalinalehene3974 7 ай бұрын

Questions...SSK = slip one as if to knit, slip another one as if to knit, pass the stiches from the right needle to the left, insert the left-hand needle through the front of both slipped stitches from left to right, knit the two slipped stitches together through the back loop. What you are doing in the video is k2tog for both sides. For ssk you are slipping them purl wise and the passing them back to left needle which results in the sticked being the same as they were before and then you knit the together, that is k2tog, not skk. So my questions is are doing k2tog for both sides or the real SSK and them k2tog

@sundaesx 6 ай бұрын

I thought I was crazy but yes this is indeed what is happening and now im too far in to do something about it unfortunately... ill just cut my losses and keep it going.

@vonniesworld 6 ай бұрын

That was going to be exactly my question too. I had to unpick my stitches as it didn’t seem right SSK, I watched the tutorial again and realised that she was slipping back to the left needle therefore basically k2tog. Great tutorial just this bit that confused me and had to read all the messages till I got to yours and realised I wasn’t going mad 🤣

@laza0150 3 ай бұрын

@@vonniesworldthis was driving crazy!! I couldn’t figure out if I didn’t get it cause I’m a newbie or not. Did you end up using SSK or K2tog?

@vonniesworld 3 ай бұрын

@@laza0150 I did k2tog 👍

@sarahrobertson9736 3 ай бұрын

I'm having the same issue! I'm confused about whether to k2tog or do what I learned as a true ssk. I'm new and this is my first pair of socks, so I'm confused.

@stacybellante2178 3 жыл бұрын

You are such a great teacher! Your video was so clear and understandable. Thank you!

@summerleedesignco.6471 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yay! I’m so glad it was helpful!!

@ddkrisje 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the pattern and tutorials 👍🥰🧶🌞🌷

@lynnjvv1 4 ай бұрын

really like the way you explain this - thank you!

@suzannefenton1589 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous tutorials! Thank you so much

@jessicacottrell9218 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited to start these! These are the tutorials I've been waiting for 😍🥰

@summerleedesignco.6471 3 жыл бұрын

Yay!! I hope they are helpful!

@bonitaeros5694 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial!

@melyellystitches 3 жыл бұрын

Soooooo informative!!!! Thank you for the tutorial! You’re a great teacher!!!😁

@summerleedesignco.6471 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yay! I’m so glad it was helpful!!!

@cheriethompson2266 3 жыл бұрын

You make this so easy!

@kroknit474 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I love this pattern

@marybooth3849 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial.

@beautifulmercury 3 жыл бұрын

took me a while to figure out the notification sounds were in the video, lol. thanks for a great tutorial!

@claudiacampa4774 3 жыл бұрын

I finished a heel flap and gusset without tears for the 1st time!! Thank you Summer you are an awesome instructor, I may never do a FLKH again, even when I love it, I so pleased with what I accomplished with your awesome video!

@summerleedesignco.6471 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yay!! I'm so glad the video was helpful!!

@ivanadimitri6074 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, this video was very helpful 🤗

@selmaime67 3 жыл бұрын

Knitting socks with you is very enjoyable:) Hello from Turkey. But I do not know if I am doing it differently in the slip slip knit section. Do I need to cut to the left? :( I couldn't understand.

@ingridgavilan446 Жыл бұрын

Excelencia es lo tuyo mí querida gracias por toda esa gracias que Dios te regala todos los dias

@emmajofinfer5372 3 жыл бұрын

quick question: why do you use this decrease technique for the heel turn instead of GSR or something similar? L-O-V-E your patterns!!

@mccoydg 3 жыл бұрын

When you change your colors how do you secure the other strands of yarn that are left hanging so you don’t end up with a whole or a gap and the yard is secured

@TowerMom Жыл бұрын

This is great! However, as I'm left handed, when I am going to knit the gusset, wouldn't my needles be facing right?

@cherylwood9769 2 жыл бұрын

I have myself in a pickle. I am not a knitter and this is my first attempt. Just started the heel decreases and I realise that I seem to be knitting on the 'wrong side' the inside of the sock now has the wavy lines and the outside the V. I have certainly done something wrong - unpicking it doesn't feel like an option but can I correct it on the next row? I am currently doing a row 2.

@johnawrzosek6127 3 жыл бұрын

I am making a sock where the heel is a W&T. I don't like it. Can I use your method for the heel ? I am new to making socks so thank you.

@tonimehraban582 Жыл бұрын

Hi - Super newbie here. Can you please explain the difference between SSK and K2TOG? I can't tell the difference from the video. Thanks.

@skolljumper 14 сағат бұрын

When you slip the stitches as if to knit, it twists the stitches so they are oriented the other way complicated to k2tog

@annaloomis7573 9 ай бұрын

I love this pattern and video tutorials. I would like to make an editing suggestion for the Gusset, however. Maybe it’s me - but when I started the Gusset decreases I didn’t do the K2TOG in the right place because the marker is placed at the end of the top of the foot. Suggest to place a second marker at the beginning of round/beginning of the top of the foot in the written pattern itself. Had to watch the video to figure out what I did wrong. Now tinking back a few rows…

@maccuzzy1 5 ай бұрын

I've just had to do tbe exact same thing 🤦‍♀️

@DGaryMoore 2 жыл бұрын

What do you do to close the holes on the side where the gusset joins the front of the foot?

@kneedlesandlife 2 жыл бұрын

How are you doing your ssk? It looks like nothing changed about the direction of the stitches and then you k2tog…

@knit1924 Жыл бұрын

I've seen so many heel flap turns that start the ssk decreases two stitches past the middle of the sock. Is there a difference in the outcome?

@judygrayson7896 3 жыл бұрын

Some people want you to pick up a stitch between the end of the heel and picking up the stitches to prevent a hole but I don’t see you doing that. Is it Necessary? Did that make sense ? Hope I said that right

@jasondamours1874 3 жыл бұрын

I am loving these! Quick question, though. When you do the SSK decrease, are you slipping purl wise with yarn in the back, slipping the two slipped stitches back to the left needle, and them knitting them together?

@aynashaa 3 жыл бұрын

I had the same question. It will help to watch a video just on ssk. The purpose of slipping them onto the needle then placing them back on the other one is to turn the stitches the correct way. As counter productive as it looks it turns the little loops so you can knit them together properly. Hope this helps!! Also it’s probably too late anyway but oh well lol

@aynashaa 2 жыл бұрын

Ps I don’t like to do it the way she does ssk. She does it in kind of a weird way but if it works it works!

@anandersonnovel 2 жыл бұрын

@@aynashaa Yes I see what you mean…it’s like she slip, slips to the right and then slip, slips to the left and then knits 🤔 This is the only real problem area for me. I loved the rest of her tutorials much BETTER than some others on KZfaq. I just had to find out how to SSK in a way that wasn’t so cumbersome (this one is really super weird) and then came back to this channel to finish it up!

@alexandra3804 3 ай бұрын

I ended up doing k2tog for everything 😅

@katie4340 6 ай бұрын

Hi! So in your pattern you have needle sizes 1, 1.5 and 2 for usual sock needles. I couldn't find size 1 so I bought size 2. My gauge is too big now, 32.5. All i see online is going down a needle size.... What do I do?? Go down a sock size (from medium to small)? Or cast on different number, return the No.2 and get No. 1 needle? Hahaha Thanks!!

@clairegammon5577 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for these videos. They're fab!!! Could you share which method of SSK you use? I often find mine a little untidy. Also, I seem to be getting more stitches on the second side of the pick up. Any ideas why this might keep happening?? 😊

@sandras4689 3 жыл бұрын

Really...what is the difference between ssk and k2tog 🥴?

@tonimehraban582 Жыл бұрын

@@sandras4689 same question here!

@marjonmooj8021 11 ай бұрын

I think she makes a knit 2 together here.. a ssk is slip 2 stitches knitwise and then put them back.. then the stitches are turning

@jessicastory-johnson1378 6 ай бұрын

@@marjonmooj8021 Came here for this. She's just slipping her stitches pearl wise and then flipping them back, which means there's absolutely no difference between a K2Tog and what she's calling an ssk

@kellyhill9360 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video. Quick question - after turning the heel flap, my needles are pointing to the left but I'm looking at the wrong side of my work. What should I do to get in position to correctly pick up gusset stitches? Thanks.

@kroknit474 3 жыл бұрын

I did one additional knit row

@agarciaro1 4 ай бұрын

Yay jou just knitted? Genius😂

@SP-cx8hm Жыл бұрын

How do I get the heel seem so even? One side always looks horrible no matter how tight I try to make the stitches

@winnieholtermann-jensen58 2 жыл бұрын

What are you doing with thes slip slip are you twisting the masks?

@me02041957 2 жыл бұрын

what is the rationale of knitting two at the beginning of the heel flap, I've never seen that done.

@alexisdunstan3944 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to knit this heel in a toe up sock?

@luciamassena5022 2 жыл бұрын

Uau!🤩

@carlylin2854 3 жыл бұрын

Help! I think I've somehow goofed and now my heel flap is backwards (the portion that should be on the inside appears to be on the outside) -- am i doomed?? Can this be fixed? (great videos btw! Thanks for doing these!)

@agarciaro1 4 ай бұрын

See my comment above, same issue I'm puzzled

@cavellama3313 3 ай бұрын

I have knit the heel flap three times. It’s always off center. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks for the help

@caroltrice5563 3 жыл бұрын

Summer, on the heel turn portion, it looks like you are doing SSK by slipping two consecutive stitches purlwise and then knitting through the front. Is that the way you do SSK? I have seen it slip two consecutive stitches as if to knit and then knit through the back loop. Does it do the same thing?

@caroltrice5563 3 жыл бұрын

Do you twist them when you pass them back to the left needle?

@JonathansDays 3 жыл бұрын

I’m confused by this too, I’ve even slowed down the video. It looks like she slips purlwise and then puts them back on the left needle the same way which seems pointless to me because when you do that you don’t twist the stitches so it’s essentially the same as a k2tog?

@jonobetz 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think what she did is equivalent to k2tog. I did SSK as taught by other videos (slipping both stitches knitwise) and it seemed to work great, though maybe I'm missing something?

@lindsayeland4091 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video! I started my heel flap, but it's reversed--the pattern is inside the sock?! How did I do this? Help!!! I might just continue with this one since this is my very first sock of my very first pair, but I don't want to make the same mistake again--and I don't know how to take the stitches out without ruining all my work! Thank you!

@agarciaro1 4 ай бұрын

I am having the same problem! Needles look in the right position but I end up with the purl side facing😢. I'm going to write things out to make some sense. Please lmk if you figured this out. This is my 4th attempt and am about to give up on sock knitting 😢

@carolcampbell5987 4 ай бұрын

Do you ever knit two at a time ? I have second sock syndrome

@carysnicholls4288 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Did anyone ever get an answer on the SSK? Unsure whether to continue with my normal technique or try out this (which seems to me just K2tog) ? :)

@jeannedelaforet6441 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about anyone else but when I get close to the end of a round, (three stitches from the end), I knit two together, then knit one. When I’m at the beginning of a round, I will knit one, slip slip knit-wise and then knit those two slipped stitches together through the back of the needle. It works for me! :-)

@jessicapacheco1696 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize the ssk shown in the video is like doing a k2tog until I got to the first gusset decrease round! Can I ask if you followed the video and continued doing the k2tog for both decreases?

@margarethastings3332 3 жыл бұрын

I was a little confused by this too. I thought it was a different way of doing SSK, but when I came to do it I realised that the stitches are just being moved from one needle back to the other and ends up being K2tog (unless I’m missing something).

@elfepss 3 ай бұрын

For your ssk there’s something that I can’t figure out and is…you slip the two stitches from the left needle to the right the same way that you slip them back to the left and then you knit them together. Why don’t you knit them together without moving them back and forth? That is no sense for me. Thanks for answering

@Renaystar 2 ай бұрын

Sorry no one answered you. I don’t know if it’ll help now but her book says to ssk. So slip the stitches knit wise then knit them together. Must have been a video error she didn’t catch. Some say you can do both as it doesn’t really matter but when you get to the gusset you’ll be thankful you did. Looks neater in my opinion. I read through the comments and she never answered anyone on the issue.

@elfepss 2 ай бұрын

@@Renaystar thank you for taking the time to answer me. I’m very disapointed that she has never answered me. This is the third time that I ask a question and no answer. I suppose that making a book makes a busy life after🙄🙄

@immahulagirl 26 күн бұрын

@@elfepssthe difference between k2tog and ssk is that one is a left leaning decrease and the other is a right leaning decrease. So it makes the stitches lie in a more desirable way on each side of the gusset. This is a very thorough video with the exception of how to ssk.

@dianehollingshead5900 3 жыл бұрын

If your needles point the wrong way after the heel turn what can you do?

@roseflowers7641 3 жыл бұрын

The video tells you what to correct it.

@agarciaro1 4 ай бұрын

Don't see it!

@anna-ko2bf Жыл бұрын

isn't ssk just knitting two stiches together?

@immahulagirl 26 күн бұрын

They are both decreases but one leans left and the other right. Hope this helps.

@annabelle7123 2 жыл бұрын

Gusset part is a but confusing from the pattern and not enough video explanations here, perhaps 1 more marker for the end of the round would have helped.

@brendacoone9814 2 жыл бұрын

Where are starting videos. This is like 3rd isnt it

@amberm4181 2 жыл бұрын

Check out her channel and choose the video tab. You will see the others

@coletteperreault5991 3 жыл бұрын

Gnb

@hollymcglothlin4440 4 ай бұрын

This is Not toe up!!!!!

@anneellison8188 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to leave a question here, but I notice that she doesn't answer them. I'm rather disappointed by that.

@roseflowers7641 3 жыл бұрын

Not many have the time to read through all the comments, many questions can be answered by searching online.

@anandersonnovel 2 жыл бұрын

@@roseflowers7641 And many make the time

@redpenda99o Жыл бұрын

yeah, how lazy of her to write a free pattern and film a video tutorial! seriously there are so many resources for you to find answers to your question, and with ungrateful, selfish comments like this, it’s no wonder she doesn’t regularly return to the video to service your entitlement.