I just found Cats tutorials a couple of months ago. I love them! ♥️ I was so sad to read of her passing. I hope these tutorials remain here as a legacy to her and her talent!
I was also shocked because I suggested to invite her in any season of knit Stars , someone told about she passed away. She was a legend. I have her all books.
Rest in Peace, Cat. You helped me knit my first pair of socks ever, because this heel felt like something I could do, when I ran across this video by chance. You helped me pick knitting back up after years of letting it languish and I'm eternally grateful. My condolences to your family which have lost such a bright light in the world.
This is seriously brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cat explained things so well. I love her little analogies 💗 This will forever be my go-to heel. Thank you Cat ❤ R.I.P. ❤
I am a boy knitter and have been trying to make socks for ages by watching tutorials here. I have had many disasters but........ Yours is the first that actually makes sense to me and works! Thank you - I have made my first pair of socks. Great stuff!!!!!!!
Have you joined Ravelry? You will get a lot of help there. Join a couple of sock groups, they are happy to answer questions and you can show off your socks!
It's so darling how you call current, previous and pre-previous stitches, using the family relations. And besides, it prints down in your mind so firmly. Thank you for this method of shaping the sock heel!
I never imagined that being curious about socks' heel construction would lead me to an easy, clean-cut and relaxing way to work short rows in the round! I almost lost hope to find instructions about it, and I looked everywhere. Thank you.
So sorry to hear about Cats passing, my heartfelt condolences to her family. She taught me to knit my first socks with her lovely patient videos. Her innovative techniques are incredible and I fervently hope her videos will stay on RUclips as a memorial to a lovely lady.
This heel has turned me into a sock-a-holic! I love the ease of making this heel--so simple and doesn't look like it will work--but the results are amazing! Thanks Cat!
Turning the heel drove me away from knitting socks because I never was able to make them turn out correctly. The Sweet Tomato Heel was the first method that worked successfully and Cat was so cool. She helped me with emails and just made the whole thing clear and easy to do. This lady is so kind and I really appreciate her work. She's a real gem! This heel has worked with worsted and sock weight yarn. It's my favorite method to use for heels!
OMG! This is the easiest and fastest way to do a heel. I just started knitting in November of 2015. My main reason was to learn how to knit socks and fair isle knitting. Believe it or not fair isle is a breeze. Heels of socks have frustrated me beyond belief. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I was about to give up after about a dozen attempts until I saw your video. I did not want to waste my time AGAIN working a sock and messing up when I get to the heel, so I did a small sample ring and worked the heel your method. It worked perfect very first attempt with no mistakes. I wanted to shout at the rooftop. I also enjoyed your method of storytelling. You are awesome and amazing. Thank you again for giving me a new outlook on being able to create magnificent socks!!!!
Cat, I love the sweet tomato heel. I love knitting socks and exclusively use this heel on all my socks. You are the most innovative knitter I know. Thanks for always pushing the limits of knitting and helping us wrap and turn failures succeed!
I’ve done a lot of scarves and hats and some fairly complicated patterns , but socks have always intimidated me. I think I might actually try a pair now! Thank you for this tutorial! And I love that it doesn’t have that seam going right across the heel! You’re a genius! 💗💗💗
Cat, I LOVE this short row treatment!!! It is so easy, and truly invisible once complete. I have never been happy with any of the short rows I have done, so this is appreciated more than you know. I also love this short row heel design. It appears it will accommodate a growing foot longer than than the traditional short row heel. THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this. I am one DELIGHTED knitter. MJ, the SKEINdinavian
Thank you so much for the foresight of producing your ebook, it's a delight and I am very grateful. Like the commenters on here, I hope that this and the other Tutorials remain on here. Just to hear your teachers voice is beautiful. Thank you again. RIP Cat Bordhi.
You are amazing Cat. Thank you!! I have a sock started. I was planning to do an afterthought heel but I think I will give this a go! What a great teacher you are.
Only yesterday......I found your sweet tomato heel...tried it....IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY...don't have to remember any formulas....I can make it fit any foot....I was so giddy that I started a pair of socks with a Celtic knot pattern I've wanted to try for my first venture into stranded knitting.....I AM DONE! 2 socks, thank you very much. I have been released from the purgatory of sock patterns! I am a genius! (nooo......wait.....YOU are the genius). Seriously, a WONDERFUL tutorial, thanks!
I bet this would make awesome Sweet Melon bust darts too! As an intermediate (but somewhat opinionated) knitter, I frequently tweak patterns but I haven't had the confidence to tackle adding classic short row bust darts to a sweater pattern; afraid I would get lost without instructions. With your clear explanation of how to read the knitting, I feel inspired to give it a try on my next sweater (especially with a lifeline before I start). Love that it's the same working up or down.
THANKS YOU!!!! I love this heel technique!!! It goes by so fast unlike the traditional heel flap/heel turn/gusset pick-up/gusset decrease! I mean like it's done in like no more than maybe and hour and a half! Ok, idk if that's actually how long but it went by FAST and was FUN!!!! It made socks less dreadful to knit! And it's PERFECT for doing socks 2-at-a-time!!!!
Thank you so much for this video, I'm making my first socks and I usually hate short rows because picking up the wraps never looks right. This is beautiful and allows for a better fit. Thank you again!!!!!!!
How awesome are you? Thanks for this introduction to another heel style. A nice young lady was knitting a watermelon design baby sock onboard of a cruise she and I was on. She not only directed me to this tutorial but demonstrated your technique first hand to me. I can't wait to get started.
that is simply devine! you are a goddess, your last book for insousiant knitters blew me away and enabled me to conqure the sock for the first time in 20yrs! cant wait for the completed ebook.......
Cat, your are a women after my own heart. There is nothing I like more than turning a sock heel. You make it better with your inventive sock maneuvers. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Cat. This looks very promising. I tried the wrap short row and made a mess of it, so I'm taking that out and trying this method. It really looks smooth with no holes. That is what I am after!
Great technique. Not only a unique sock heel but also smooth and easy short rows! With the help of this video and the ebook I'm designing my first sock pattern using the sweet tomato heel.
This comment is 7 years after this video was published. I didn’t knit for about 4 years and got back to it a year ago, and now I’m trying socks again. I just now did the first wedge of a sock heel. This is the first time EVER I’ve got no holes! I’m a slightly advanced beginner. Try this method! Buy her sock books! Watch more of her videos! She explains and shows things so clearly, and comes up with innovations that change knitting forever. She shows cast on methods and bind off methods too, that will change your knitting life. She also has a class on Moebius knitting on Bluprint (formerly Craftsy), that I want to follow soon. Thank you, Cat, for giving us so much!
WOW! Great video. You analogies to the Mother-daughter stitches and "riding the horse" really helped me understand what was going on. Totally going to try this out tonight. :)
Cat, you are a genius! Short rows were my least favourite technique in knitting, and never looked tidy, I always had problems picking up wraps. Now all is smooth and neat, and soooo easy!! Thanks for transforming my sock knitting!!
Your videos are always so educational, not only in terms of interesting techniques, but also from the standpoint of the structure of the knitting and how things interact. Understanding *why* a technique like "thanks, ma" or "hungry stitch" works is as valuable as the technique itself. Thanks for sharing!
I never thought I would love socks until I found Cat. I will never knit a sock top down. Her book is AMAZING. I wish heaven allowed her to still release patterns, but when it’s my time to go find her, I’m bringing my needles! I am positive there is a yarn store with the most exquisite yarn up there. I miss you!
Wow! Love it... will try it with the new socks I will knit after I finish the one I am knitting right now but I just find sad that you are often out of camera... I love your voice and the clarity of your explanation. Thank you
A million thanks for this tutorial! Now, when making socks, there are no more tears of frustration, no more bad words and my socks no longer look like the product of drunken knitting. [And I was thrilled to see that you purl the same way I do. I no longer feel so alone in the world]. Thank you!
omg i have fought and fought and fought with heels and toes. I LOVE this heel finally i worked a heel with all my hair still in my head. THANK YOU now just to find a toe this easy
Beautiful! My goal this year is to finally achieve the sock! And now with the "thanks Maw" technique I'm sure to be a success! Thanks Cat for sharing your amazing skills. You're the best!
Learned about this from a Facebook post, very cool! I have very high arches and wide feet so I've never been able to find a pattern that fits my feet! The heel looks very nice and I enjoyed listening to your instruction and watching your knitting!
OK. Just returned 11 sock books to the library after searching for something that 1) would allow me to work toe up without having to pretend I was knitting "eyelet socks"....your videos solved my toe, heel and bind off probs. Only recently tried socks, but not pleased with results..now, I can work top down (my preference) or toe up (if I like the pattern) and USE YOUR HEEL. You're a master instructor....bravo. Off to buy your books now.
Thank you Cat. I just started my first pair of socks and had difficulty understanding the heel part of the sock pattern i was using. This tomato heel is so easy and looks so nice. Will be able to do loads of socks using this method.
I know this will probably go unseen, but I just want to say thank you for a heal that I can do without connecting my 2 at a time on dpn socks. I actually knit both right and left handed to do it, but it is the only way I can be sure not to cross the yarn while knitting in this particular method. Thank you very much!
I have been doing a sock that I intended to use an afterthought heel on. This heel (like all Cat-like things) is innovative and just plain cool! I will try putting this heel in and just graft at the end. I will report back my findings....once again THANKS CAT!
Thanks, Cat. You sure are generous in sharing your newly developed short row heel. Can't wait to try it, so wound my sock yarn as soon as I arrived home from the yarn store. Roberta
I love knitting socks but the heel has been the bane of my knitting life my entire life (and I am 87 now but learned to knit socks when I was seventeen). I've tried all the new knitting techniques--Magic Loop, toe up, two-at-a-time, circular needles, etc.--but always go back to cuff down on four dpn's. Have always knit a flap-and-gusset heel and fought with the hole at the gusset apex forever. Also laddering. Joined a FB sock knitting group several months ago and learned about other types of heels--which I didn't know existed before. I've tried strong heel, fish lips kiss, German short row, , shadow wrapped, afterthought and Easy Peasy heels. Strong heel is the only one I have done successfully but I don't like the way it fits. The others are all variations of short row heels and I have failed at all of them, one way or another--mostly with large holes left in finished product or not "coming out even" with number of stitches I should have when finished. This heel--the sweet tomato heel, and which has fallen out of favor since Cat Bordhi's death a decade ago--I found purely by accident and is the ONLY heel I have succeeded at. Thank you, Cat Bordhi, for creating this heel, and for this easy tutorial on how to do it. It fits me perfectly. It's my "go-to" heel from now on. 😄
Love it! I can't wait to see how a colourful yarn would look with this kind of heel. I like the look of short row heels with fancy yarn much better, and I think this heel would be a great way to show some.
I'm sure you've been told this many times before: Yer a GENIUS. I will get the ebook as soon as I have the $, but I think I'm gonna rip out the heels of the socks I'm doing now to try this. It's brilliant!
Wow, I wish I had discovered your short row method last month when I started working on a cardigan with a lot of short row shaping. I ripped out so many times trying to get the wrap and turns to close up neatly. I finally hit upon a method that has been working to close up the gaps, but it requires a lot of fiddling with the wraps. I'm going to try your method as I continue on with this project and see if it will be noticeable in the fabric that it's different. Thank You!
O.K. I know I'm a bit late to the game. But Cat Bordhi has done it again! This is the smoothest heel I've tried by far! People with speak her name with the same reverent tones as Elizabeth Zimmerman. CAT YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome heel! Just what i was looking for! I am new to sock knitting and have been searching for a heel that was smooth because i have sensitive feet and do not like any kind of bumps, lumps or texture. Thank you!
Thank-you for the video. I finally got enough courage to try this heel and really do like the shape of it. I also knitted it 2AAT on 2 Circs. It worked out just great! I noticed that with the 3rd wedge the back of the heel is a little higher and I like it better than the other heel types I've knitted.
This is the first of Cat Bordhi's video's that I have watched, because I am determined to find an easy way to make heels in my knitted socks, and become a more confident knitter. This really does look easy (or Cat makes it look easy), because she is a very good instructor. I have subscribed to this RUclips channel and look forward to more innovative techniques described simply. I especially enjoy the fact that you appear to be a "Continental" knitter, which is how I was taught and therefore the way I "see" knitting. Since the majority of RUclips knitting tutorials are North American-style, your video is especially helpful to me. Thank you, Cat Bordhi ! ~Diana from Toronto
I must say your video was easy to follow and this heel was easy to follow once I got the hang out of it I MADE it harder then it was! I'm only on my 2nd knitted pair of socks and this heel is much easier I plan to buy your ebook thank you for sharing!
Wow, that is super awesome. I just turned the heel on my very first sock and I wish it looked as nice as yours. I also wish I had the will to do more socks, but I killed my hands working on this sock and it's only half done. :(
I am so glad I found this video. I've been making socks the wrong way. This way is so much smoother and looks so nice. Thank you for sharing it. Video is always much better than written version ;)
wow - I just saw a reference to this heel and checked it out. Ingenious!! I actually like the look much more than the traditional short row heel with those wraps and picking up those wraps. I can't wait to try it :)
This is AmaZinG!! This is the first heel tutorial I have understood and use it exclusively on my socks now but I still have holes on the edge though where I start knitting in the round before I start the next wedge. I can't see what I'm not doing so my knitting looks continuous without a break like yours.
I have made oodles of top down socks but never had luck with toe up heels, thank you this is wonderful and will try on the tiny baby socks dooing now. on wee socks O had problems with holes when turning heels.
I have always struggeled with short row toe up socks. I would always use a different method but never really like the way they looked. I have tried w and t and I just didn't get that either. I just watched both of your videos and I love you! hahahaha! I am so excited to try it and I am going to finsihe the socks I am making and start another so I can try this. You are fantastc and I love your stories!
Truly awesome! I use your New Pathways book for all the socks I make ... I'm gonna try doing some heels this way on the next pair. Thanks! Please come back to Olds so I can take another class from you - I enjoyed 'inventing stitch patterns' so much. :)
After trying with several sock designs I gave up completely... the heel stopped me cold. Now I understand how it can be done, and it looks beautiful. Will definitely try this out. Once again perfectly explained (and humorously, too...), easy to follow and a joy to watch. Thank you for joining. Is there a video about starting toes, too?
I just found Cats tutorials a couple of months ago. I love them! ♥️ I was so sad to read of her passing. I hope these tutorials remain here as a legacy to her and her talent!
I was also shocked because I suggested to invite her in any season of knit Stars , someone told about she passed away. She was a legend. I have her all books.
Rest in Peace, Cat. You helped me knit my first pair of socks ever, because this heel felt like something I could do, when I ran across this video by chance. You helped me pick knitting back up after years of letting it languish and I'm eternally grateful. My condolences to your family which have lost such a bright light in the world.
I'm heartbroken! Oh, Miss Cat! You're still teaching us how to knit. ❤ Thank you sweetheart.
This is seriously brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cat explained things so well. I love her little analogies 💗 This will forever be my go-to heel. Thank you Cat ❤ R.I.P. ❤
RIP Cat. You were not only a genius sock designer - you were a wonderful, sweet, caring person. The world is better for you having passed through.
Still today, I am coming back to this video to remind me of this technique I learned many years ago. You will always stay in my heart. RIP Cat.
I love the terminology you use. You need a "friend" to help tighten. And the "mother" stitch rides the horse with the daughter. Thanks, Mom!
RIP Cat Bordhi. This explanation for the Tomato heel is absolutely brilliant 👍🏽
I am a boy knitter and have been trying to make socks for ages by watching tutorials here. I have had many disasters but........ Yours is the first that actually makes sense to me and works! Thank you - I have made my first pair of socks. Great stuff!!!!!!!
Have you joined Ravelry? You will get a lot of help there. Join a couple of sock groups, they are happy to answer questions and you can show off your socks!
It's so darling how you call current, previous and pre-previous stitches, using the family relations. And besides, it prints down in your mind so firmly. Thank you for this method of shaping the sock heel!
I never imagined that being curious about socks' heel construction would lead me to an easy, clean-cut and relaxing way to work short rows in the round! I almost lost hope to find instructions about it, and I looked everywhere. Thank you.
So sorry to hear about Cats passing, my heartfelt condolences to her family. She taught me to knit my first socks with her lovely patient videos. Her innovative techniques are incredible and I fervently hope her videos will stay on RUclips as a memorial to a lovely lady.
I wish I had known about you before. Your legacy will live on. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world
This heel has turned me into a sock-a-holic! I love the ease of making this heel--so simple and doesn't look like it will work--but the results are amazing! Thanks Cat!
Turning the heel drove me away from knitting socks because I never was able to make them turn out correctly. The Sweet Tomato Heel was the first method that worked successfully and Cat was so cool. She helped me with emails and just made the whole thing clear and easy to do. This lady is so kind and I really appreciate her work. She's a real gem! This heel has worked with worsted and sock weight yarn. It's my favorite method to use for heels!
OMG! This is the easiest and fastest way to do a heel. I just started knitting in November of 2015. My main reason was to learn how to knit socks and fair isle knitting. Believe it or not fair isle is a breeze. Heels of socks have frustrated me beyond belief. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I was about to give up after about a dozen attempts until I saw your video. I did not want to waste my time AGAIN working a sock and messing up when I get to the heel, so I did a small sample ring and worked the heel your method. It worked perfect very first attempt with no mistakes. I wanted to shout at the rooftop. I also enjoyed your method of storytelling. You are awesome and amazing. Thank you again for giving me a new outlook on being able to create magnificent socks!!!!
Cat, I love the sweet tomato heel. I love knitting socks and exclusively use this heel on all my socks. You are the most innovative knitter I know. Thanks for always pushing the limits of knitting and helping us wrap and turn failures succeed!
I’ve done a lot of scarves and hats and some fairly complicated patterns , but socks have always intimidated me. I think I might actually try a pair now! Thank you for this tutorial! And I love that it doesn’t have that seam going right across the heel! You’re a genius! 💗💗💗
Cat, I LOVE this short row treatment!!! It is so easy, and truly invisible once complete. I have never been happy with any of the short rows I have done, so this is appreciated more than you know.
I also love this short row heel design. It appears it will accommodate a growing foot longer than than the traditional short row heel.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this. I am one DELIGHTED knitter.
MJ, the SKEINdinavian
Thank you so much for the foresight of producing your ebook, it's a delight and I am very grateful. Like the commenters on here, I hope that this and the other Tutorials remain on here. Just to hear your teachers voice is beautiful. Thank you again. RIP Cat Bordhi.
You are amazing Cat. Thank you!! I have a sock started. I was planning to do an afterthought heel but I think I will give this a go! What a great teacher you are.
Rest in Peace, Cat. Thank you for your helpful tutorials.
Only yesterday......I found your sweet tomato heel...tried it....IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY...don't have to remember any formulas....I can make it fit any foot....I was so giddy that I started a pair of socks with a Celtic knot pattern I've wanted to try for my first venture into stranded knitting.....I AM DONE! 2 socks, thank you very much. I have been released from the purgatory of sock patterns! I am a genius! (nooo......wait.....YOU are the genius). Seriously, a WONDERFUL tutorial, thanks!
I bet this would make awesome Sweet Melon bust darts too! As an intermediate (but somewhat opinionated) knitter, I frequently tweak patterns but I haven't had the confidence to tackle adding classic short row bust darts to a sweater pattern; afraid I would get lost without instructions. With your clear explanation of how to read the knitting, I feel inspired to give it a try on my next sweater (especially with a lifeline before I start). Love that it's the same working up or down.
Love to the Family. Thank you Cat. So gifted.
So sad to hear she's gone. She left the knitting world better than she found it. Condolences to her family.
Rest In Peace Cat! You taught me how to make socks. Grateful for your wonderful techniques I learned from you. 🙏
Revisiting Cat’s saved video. I miss her and her fabulously creative life and brain.
THANK YOU.... I bought your eBook and now after watching this, it became SO clear, that I believe even I can make a nice heel! Thanks again Cat!
THANKS YOU!!!! I love this heel technique!!! It goes by so fast unlike the traditional heel flap/heel turn/gusset pick-up/gusset decrease! I mean like it's done in like no more than maybe and hour and a half! Ok, idk if that's actually how long but it went by FAST and was FUN!!!! It made socks less dreadful to knit! And it's PERFECT for doing socks 2-at-a-time!!!!
Thank you so much for this video, I'm making my first socks and I usually hate short rows because picking up the wraps never looks right. This is beautiful and allows for a better fit. Thank you again!!!!!!!
How awesome are you? Thanks for this introduction to another heel style. A nice young lady was knitting a watermelon design baby sock onboard of a cruise she and I was on. She not only directed me to this tutorial but demonstrated your technique first hand to me. I can't wait to get started.
that is simply devine! you are a goddess, your last book for insousiant knitters blew me away and enabled me to conqure the sock for the first time in 20yrs! cant wait for the completed ebook.......
Cat, your are a women after my own heart. There is nothing I like more than turning a sock heel. You make it better with your inventive sock maneuvers. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Cat. This looks very promising. I tried the wrap short row and made a mess of it, so I'm taking that out and trying this method. It really looks smooth with no holes. That is what I am after!
Okay . . . I'm a big fan of this method. Love the results. Thanks!
Great technique. Not only a unique sock heel but also smooth and easy short rows! With the help of this video and the ebook I'm designing my first sock pattern using the sweet tomato heel.
This comment is 7 years after this video was published. I didn’t knit for about 4 years and got back to it a year ago, and now I’m trying socks again. I just now did the first wedge of a sock heel. This is the first time EVER I’ve got no holes! I’m a slightly advanced beginner. Try this method! Buy her sock books! Watch more of her videos! She explains and shows things so clearly, and comes up with innovations that change knitting forever. She shows cast on methods and bind off methods too, that will change your knitting life. She also has a class on Moebius knitting on Bluprint (formerly Craftsy), that I want to follow soon. Thank you, Cat, for giving us so much!
WOW! Great video. You analogies to the Mother-daughter stitches and "riding the horse" really helped me understand what was going on. Totally going to try this out tonight. :)
Cat, you are a genius! Short rows were my least favourite technique in knitting, and never looked tidy, I always had problems picking up wraps. Now all is smooth and neat, and soooo easy!! Thanks for transforming my sock knitting!!
Your videos are always so educational, not only in terms of interesting techniques, but also from the standpoint of the structure of the knitting and how things interact. Understanding *why* a technique like "thanks, ma" or "hungry stitch" works is as valuable as the technique itself. Thanks for sharing!
I love your little stories for the stitches. Ma getting on the horse - helps to remember easier! Thanks.
I never thought I would love socks until I found Cat. I will never knit a sock top down. Her book is AMAZING. I wish heaven allowed her to still release patterns, but when it’s my time to go find her, I’m bringing my needles! I am positive there is a yarn store with the most exquisite yarn up there. I miss you!
Wow! Love it... will try it with the new socks I will knit after I finish the one I am knitting right now but I just find sad that you are often out of camera... I love your voice and the clarity of your explanation. Thank you
A million thanks for this tutorial! Now, when making socks, there are no more tears of frustration, no more bad words and my socks no longer look like the product of drunken knitting. [And I was thrilled to see that you purl the same way I do. I no longer feel so alone in the world]. Thank you!
Michelle Maibach 😂😂😂
omg i have fought and fought and fought with heels and toes. I LOVE this heel finally i worked a heel with all my hair still in my head. THANK YOU now just to find a toe this easy
Beautiful! My goal this year is to finally achieve the sock! And now with the "thanks Maw" technique I'm sure to be a success!
Thanks Cat for sharing your amazing skills. You're the best!
Learned about this from a Facebook post, very cool! I have very high arches and wide feet so I've never been able to find a pattern that fits my feet! The heel looks very nice and I enjoyed listening to your instruction and watching your knitting!
Thanks Cat! This is the heel I've used on my last 2 pairs of socks. It is very comfortable& well fitting. I'm so glad you can figure this stuff out!
I’m new to sock making but I will definitely use this instead of all of the wraps and turns and German short rows. You are amazing.
OK. Just returned 11 sock books to the library after searching for something that 1) would allow me to work toe up without having to pretend I was knitting "eyelet socks"....your videos solved my toe, heel and bind off probs. Only recently tried socks, but not pleased with results..now, I can work top down (my preference) or toe up (if I like the pattern) and USE YOUR HEEL. You're a master instructor....bravo. Off to buy your books now.
This video made me so happy after a hard work week. Bless you Cat and rip. ❤
This technique is fabulous. It produces exactly the sort of smooth, rounded heel shape I've always wanted. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :D
Thank you Cat. I just started my first pair of socks and had difficulty understanding the heel part of the sock pattern i was using. This tomato heel is so easy and looks so nice. Will be able to do loads of socks using this method.
Absolutely brilliant! I will be making all my heels this way from now on.
I know this will probably go unseen, but I just want to say thank you for a heal that I can do without connecting my 2 at a time on dpn socks. I actually knit both right and left handed to do it, but it is the only way I can be sure not to cross the yarn while knitting in this particular method. Thank you very much!
You’re an awesome teacher!!! Loved watching your video!!!
I have been doing a sock that I intended to use an afterthought heel on. This heel (like all Cat-like things) is innovative and just plain cool! I will try putting this heel in and just graft at the end. I will report back my findings....once again THANKS CAT!
Thanks, Cat. You sure are generous in sharing your newly developed short row heel. Can't wait to try it, so wound my sock yarn as soon as I arrived home from the yarn store.
Roberta
BRILLIANT! I am so thrilled that I found this video! Being a sock knitter, this will really help me produce even better socks. Thanks so very much!
Fabulous! I am so glad to have stumbled upon your videos. Your approach is simple and your knitting is very intuitive...not fussy at all! Thank you.
Just Awesome !!! I'm a new sock knitter, done three so far. Kudos to you Cat!
I love knitting socks but the heel has been the bane of my knitting life my entire life (and I am 87 now but learned to knit socks when I was seventeen). I've tried all the new knitting techniques--Magic Loop, toe up, two-at-a-time, circular needles, etc.--but always go back to cuff down on four dpn's. Have always knit a flap-and-gusset heel and fought with the hole at the gusset apex forever. Also laddering. Joined a FB sock knitting group several months ago and learned about other types of heels--which I didn't know existed before. I've tried strong heel, fish lips kiss, German short row, , shadow wrapped, afterthought and Easy Peasy heels. Strong heel is the only one I have done successfully but I don't like the way it fits. The others are all variations of short row heels and I have failed at all of them, one way or another--mostly with large holes left in finished product or not "coming out even" with number of stitches I should have when finished. This heel--the sweet tomato heel, and which has fallen out of favor since Cat Bordhi's death a decade ago--I found purely by accident and is the ONLY heel I have succeeded at. Thank you, Cat Bordhi, for creating this heel, and for this easy tutorial on how to do it. It fits me perfectly. It's my "go-to" heel from now on. 😄
Love it! I can't wait to see how a colourful yarn would look with this kind of heel. I like the look of short row heels with fancy yarn much better, and I think this heel would be a great way to show some.
The light has gone on, I understand the sweet tomato heel now. I have your book, and love it.
I will try this right away. I have tried so many different ways to do a heel and being a lefty I have a terrible time but I think this will work!
I’m going to try this tonight. I love the look of the heel. Very good tutorial! Thank you !
Beautiful! I found it easy to follow and would probably have to re-watch the video to knit a tomato heel, but it's very doable. Thank you so much.
That was amazing! Thank you for such an informative and easy to follow tutorial.
I am definitely going to try out this technique on my next pair of hand-knit socks. Thanks so much for innovating once again!
I’ve had your book quite a while but haven’t gotten started with it. This video makes it so clear I’m excited to give it a try.
I'm sure you've been told this many times before: Yer a GENIUS. I will get the ebook as soon as I have the $, but I think I'm gonna rip out the heels of the socks I'm doing now to try this. It's brilliant!
This is the first heel I am attempting to try. It's the easiest looking one and neatest. I was discouraged by the complexity of the others.
Italia Vin same here
Wow, I wish I had discovered your short row method last month when I started working on a cardigan with a lot of short row shaping. I ripped out so many times trying to get the wrap and turns to close up neatly. I finally hit upon a method that has been working to close up the gaps, but it requires a lot of fiddling with the wraps. I'm going to try your method as I continue on with this project and see if it will be noticeable in the fabric that it's different. Thank You!
O.K. I know I'm a bit late to the game. But Cat Bordhi has done it again! This is the smoothest heel I've tried by far! People with speak her name with the same reverent tones as Elizabeth Zimmerman. CAT YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome heel! Just what i was looking for! I am new to sock knitting and have been searching for a heel that was smooth because i have sensitive feet and do not like any kind of bumps, lumps or texture. Thank you!
This is the best heel pattern I have ever found!
This was so helpful and I enjoyed making socks with this kind of heel, am on my second pair now.
I bow to you Cat Bordhi. You are the Master of the Knitting Universe. I am off to start a pair of socks. You have ignited a fire.
JoHanna
Thank-you for the video. I finally got enough courage to try this heel and really do like the shape of it. I also knitted it 2AAT on 2 Circs. It worked out just great! I noticed that with the 3rd wedge the back of the heel is a little higher and I like it better than the other heel types I've knitted.
Many thanks for posting this informative video! I've made several pairs of socks using your sweet tomato heel, and it works beautifully!
This is the first of Cat Bordhi's video's that I have watched, because I am determined to find an easy way to make heels in my knitted socks, and become a more confident knitter. This really does look easy (or Cat makes it look easy), because she is a very good instructor. I have subscribed to this RUclips channel and look forward to more innovative techniques described simply. I especially enjoy the fact that you appear to be a "Continental" knitter, which is how I was taught and therefore the way I "see" knitting. Since the majority of RUclips knitting tutorials are North American-style, your video is especially helpful to me. Thank you, Cat Bordhi ! ~Diana from Toronto
I must say your video was easy to follow and this heel was easy to follow once I got the hang out of it I MADE it harder then it was! I'm only on my 2nd knitted pair of socks and this heel is much easier I plan to buy your ebook thank you for sharing!
More PURE GENIUS from you, Cat! Thank you! Going to watch again before I attempt this, just to be sure, but your directions are always so great.
I'm gonna say: Thank you Cath! Thank you SO much!
I just frogged my slipper three times and was going to give up until I saw this video..you give me renewed hope thank you
thank you soooooo much this is the only heel I have ever done correctly and it is the only 1 I will ever use you are a great teacher
Wow, that is super awesome. I just turned the heel on my very first sock and I wish it looked as nice as yours. I also wish I had the will to do more socks, but I killed my hands working on this sock and it's only half done. :(
I am so glad I found this video. I've been making socks the wrong way. This way is so much smoother and looks so nice. Thank you for sharing it. Video is always much better than written version ;)
wow - I just saw a reference to this heel and checked it out. Ingenious!! I actually like the look much more than the traditional short row heel with those wraps and picking up those wraps. I can't wait to try it :)
This is AmaZinG!! This is the first heel tutorial I have understood and use it exclusively on my socks now but I still have holes on the edge though where I start knitting in the round before I start the next wedge. I can't see what I'm not doing so my knitting looks continuous without a break like yours.
It was amazing how she’s explaining.
I have made oodles of top down socks but never had luck with toe up heels, thank you this is wonderful and will try on the tiny baby socks dooing now. on wee socks O had problems with holes when turning heels.
You never fail to amaze us all. I wish my brain worked in the same way as yours. Thanks for sharing .
Just found you ,only to read you are gone, the world has lost a true teacher and bright light. Deepest condolences to all you have left behind.
I have always struggeled with short row toe up socks. I would always use a different method but never really like the way they looked. I have tried w and t and I just didn't get that either. I just watched both of your videos and I love you! hahahaha! I am so excited to try it and I am going to finsihe the socks I am making and start another so I can try this. You are fantastc and I love your stories!
Thank you for the best video of socks ever.
Truly awesome! I use your New Pathways book for all the socks I make ... I'm gonna try doing some heels this way on the next pair. Thanks! Please come back to Olds so I can take another class from you - I enjoyed 'inventing stitch patterns' so much. :)
I always like your "unventions" ! This is a great one too. I'll give it a try soon.
Thanks for sharing!
Fits like a glove!!!
After trying with several sock designs I gave up completely... the heel stopped me cold. Now I understand how it can be done, and it looks beautiful. Will definitely try this out.
Once again perfectly explained (and humorously, too...), easy to follow and a joy to watch. Thank you for joining.
Is there a video about starting toes, too?