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I made a sock heel. Usually turning the heel is my favourite part of knitting socks, but this time I used a ‘forethought heel’ - basically an afterthought heel you work straight away instead of putting the stitches aside and coming back to knit it when the rest of the sock is complete - and it just wasn’t as satisfying as turning a flap & gusset heel, which makes me feel like a Real Proper Knitter. It’s a perfectly good, functional heel, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s basically a sock toe. So I have to knit four toes for these socks, and I don’t get to do the part that makes me feel clever! I’m going back to flap and gusset heels after this pair of sock, I think.

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