German Short Row Heel in Contrast Color - Two Ways. AKA Boomerang, Yo-yo, Jo-jo heel
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- This is a demonstration of how to work a German Short Row Heel in a contrasting color, two different ways. One with the traditional method which involves contrast colors going over the instep and a second way without the contrast going over the instep. This style of heel is also known by Boomerang, Yo-yo and Jo-jo. I hope you enjoy this and share it with your friends.
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Hi Suzanne, I just wanted to pop in a quick comment to let you know how very helpful your tutorials are to me. I'm in my mid 60's and my goal for this year was to knit my very first sock. I have made 2 (odd) socks, using them as learning tools/samples until I figure out what is right for me and which method and result I enjoy more. Your easy to understand tutorials are my absolute go-to for help and learning. I thank you so much for taking the time to do these... even on your 4th of July celebrations! Happy 4th to you and yours. I'm in Australia, so it's just another Sunday here lol... and I'm working on 'just another sock' ... using Addi Crasy Trio for the first time which I'm really liking, but deep down I think I shall continue to be a Magic Loop gal with my ChiaoGoo's lol
Feels good to have completed my first pair of socks. Bravo to you from the UK. My mum is wearing them in her last hours at 99 1/2, feels great to have made her something special and useful.
Yay! Thank you so much for your support!
Helen Cain, that is so awesome! It is such a comfort for her, I am sure.
I rewatch this every time I go to do a heel. So happy it's here.
That's great, Christine, so happy to help!
Hi Suzanne just wanted to thank you for showing the German short row heel continental style. I was finally able to do it. Thanks again.
Way to go, Ellen! You are so welcome! ❤️
This tutorial was a huge help to avoid the center stripe! Ive been knitting for years and I love this channel because I learn cool tips that were not as accessible before. Thank you!
What a lovely thing to say, thank you, T Mc! ❤️
HI Suzanne, I just wanted to drop you a line to say THANKYOU for your tutorial. I have been knitting socks for many years now and it did not matter what i did I always ended up will holes when doing the heel. You have shown me the way, I can now do it whithout the holes. I will be eternally gratefull. THANKYOU.
What a wonderful teacher you are! I started knitting socks only recently, I am making my second pair now and absolutely loving it.
Great job! 🧶
I was about to give up and frog my sock until I found your video! I took the heel out and worked it while watching your video. I am so happy with it now!! Thank you for generously sharing your expertise! I could not have done it without you! ❤
The color contrast helped me understand how the process of doing a German short row heel! Thank you!
Wonderful.
I’ve found that the extra rows in the middle of the heel ( because you can’t stack the double stitches) makes for a very nice fitting heel compared to other short row methods.
I've never knit a sock, nor have I ever wanted to. In fact, when this video came up in my email, I thought, although I'm a devoted fan of Suzanne, maybe I should just skip this one. But then I came to my senses and thought it's always good to learn something new. I must say, you've tempted me...even more than the pretty sock yarns that I see when I go to my LYS. I still need to work my way through a bunch of UFOs (that's my promise to myself during lockdown) and then perhaps I'll try a pair. As always, thanks for making it do-able.
Thank you, just be careful, socks can be addicting.
Seriously your channel is the best channel I’ve found this year. You make complicated techniques so easy to digest. Thank you!!!!!!
This is so wonderful to hear Tin M, thank you! ❤️
omg, thank you so much! I was trying to do this by changing yarn for each instep round and ended up with a hot mess of yarn tails 😂 you’re a superstar lifesaver!
Glad I could help! Happy New Year!
This is great thanks Suzanne. I’ve sort of done it myself before by accident but not an elegant solution like yours. Thanks
Wonderful!
I've only been knitting a couple of years, and I can't begin to tell you how helpful your tutorials have been! I'm making my first pair of socks and used this video to guide me through the heel. Your tutorials are so clear and easy to follow, thank you SO MUCH!
Wow, I love hearing this, Catherine! I enjoy helping and it is so wonderful to hear the results! ❤️
I'm new to knitting, in my sixties, and time to learn something new,😉 I am watching all the videos out there for techniques and tips. I have to say that I find following your videos very helpful they are the most clear and simple videos I've seen. When watching other videos I sort of get the gist and then I watch yours and everything comes into focus. Thank you so much for what you do.
You are so welcome!🧶
So good to understand another technique for doing heels had not realised that their was so much to knitting socks but I can see they can be quite addictive. Thank you for giving me another arrow in my arsenal.
You are so welcome!
I love all your suggestions but have a hard time keeping them in my head so l will rewatch this when I get to my heel.
Good idea. You can save the video in your favorites for later referal.
Thank you again for your great tutorial. I'm learning to knitting sock. You've taught me so much. Thank you
Wonderful!
FANTASTIC! As a new knitter, I have been looking for a heel stitch that I can learn and this is the one. Thank you for this tutorial.
Thank you, this was incredibly helpful
The contrast color you used is excellent and shows the stitch definition quite well. This innovation is simple and intuitive once seen. Thanks again!
Thank you very much!
OMG I learn so much from you Suzanne, thank you soooo much.
Happy to help!
Thank you Suzanne, great tutorial!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for another great video! Working the heel the second way is obvious - now that you showed me.
I let ads play, thumb upped, shared on Knitting Paradise with the video title as the thread topic. I want you to stay "in business" for a long time.
PS I thought your color choices worked very well for demonstrating.
Excellent! Thank you so much for your support!
Thank you suzanne😊 this make me think you are a genious❤
Thank you, so much! I am just learning how to knit socks, and up until now I didn't understand how to knit the heal. Your explanation is so good! Now I can knit socks, and I am so happy!! 😊🙏🏼🇩🇰
Wonderful!
This is an excellent tutorial, thank you.
You're very welcome!
You are amazing, your tutorial helped me a lot. The best way to knit a heel for me.
Love hearing this, Klara! You are so welcome! 😊
Great video will be making this heel. Thanks
Love hearing this, Ellen, thank you! 😊
Thank you for this tutorial. It has helped me so much with a pattern asking for wrap and turn which I wasn’t getting but you have helped so much and the German short row looks so much better.
Wonderful! Happy Holidays.
Hi Suzanne, your tutorials are live saving!!! thank you so much for explaining everything so great.
You are so welcome! Happy Holidays.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I appreciate your clear instructions and demonstration.
Thanks for watching!
Zo mooi,rustig en duidelijk uitgelegd. Dank je wel
Thank you!
Great instruction. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful, Balgran, thanks so much for watching! ❤️
Have seen the German Short Row Heel demonstrated before, your instruction is clearer. I use another method but will give this a try, always game. Thanks Suzanne, enjoy the rest of your weekend. Be safe and happy.
Excellent! Thank you, stay safe.
Thank you for this tutorial!! 💜💜
Another awesome and crystal clear tutorial from you! Thank you dear Suzanne♥️🎈
You are so welcome! Happy Holidays.
Susanne, your tutorials are the best. I have been using other short row tutorials but was left confused. I love your second technique and will give it a try. I like the look of a garter stitch heel and assume that wouldn't be a problem using your technique. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into your tutorials.
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It helped me so much to do the German short row heel for the first time! It fits so well for me!
This is so wonderful to hear, Ahha! Thanks for the great feedback! 😊
Brilliant! Thank you!
Great tutorial. I’m going to check out your others.
Awesome, thank you!
An excellent tutorial, as usual! thank you!
You're very welcome!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!! ❤ I just learned how to knit this heel but I wasn’t very fond of the stripe in the middle - now you have shown me how to do it without the stripe .
YES, THANK YOU Suzanne!! I've been waiting for this video, thank you!!
I made it just for you!
Knitting with Suzanne Bryan That's so lovely of you, thank you! I'm gonna try this out on my next pair of socks
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very helpful 😁 note to self: 2nd way begins @20:00 approx
Thanks so much for all your videos. I love the way you explain everything. Although I’ve been knitting socks for quite awhile, I’m getting ready to knit my first short row heel and it will be with a contrasting color. Your instructions are so easy to follow so I’m not afraid to attempt this.
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for your tutorials I've used them so many times!!
Glad you like them!
Great tutorial 😊
Thank you so much!
You're very welcome, Sonette! 😊
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Wonderful 👍
Thank you, Sid! 😊
Great video!
A big thanks to you! I learned a lot here!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you
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Wow, thanks. I love this 👍🧡
So glad!
I thought you forgot about me! Thank you soooo much! I’ve needed this for a long time ❤️
I didn't! Happy knitting.
Thanks again
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educational very good. Clear and good 👏🏻😀☀️
Thank you! 😃
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Heel in Contrast Color
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You are welcome 😊
Love your tutorials, I am also in my mid sixties and love to see new techniques. Knitting socks has always been an absorbing task for me. I now understand better how cable type needles are used but love the four needle technique. The down side is looking after the tension carefully.
Thank you
Yes, I am currently knitting a pair of socks on 4 needles, but my favorite is two circulars. when making a video, I have to choose which method to us. It is always a gamble. Thank you for watching and commenting.
You are the best!!
Thank you.
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You are very welcome!
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Thank you.
Fantastic Video
Thank you very much!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!
You are so very welcome, Lynda! ❤️
I found it so hard to find a good tutorial for my Toe Up with a GSR heel, in my own language. Googled in English, found you, and you saved me! No I also need to get the better stitches too, but thank you. Thank you also for seeing it through to how to finish it up nicely, those holes and all. My foot has a "high wrist", so I also need to find a way of nicely increase the width proportionally, preferably on the instep side just opposite from making the heal, not many sock patterns bother about that. I guess I must create my own pattern for my own feet, of course. Any suggestions otherwise? I made it with my first socks ever and your video, using the first example also, colours fitted nicely into the contrast colours. Thanks again!
For "high arches" I find that heel flap with turn and gussets is easier to alter to give more stitches around the instep. Make the heel flap 2 or 4 rows longer and therefor pick up more gusset stitches. This gives the extra circumference at the instep. Happy knitting.
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This is great thank you
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That is great thank you
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Hello Suzanne.
You’re one of the most skilled knitters I’ve ever come across so it’s only natural to go to you with my question. I’ve searched high and low but can’t find a good guide for the following : A sleeve cap knitted with GSR and stripes - changing color every 2 or 4 rows. I need to learn this technique so make symmetrical stripes that matches the body of a sweater - I hope I’m explaining it in a good way 😄 If you know a good technique please point me in the direction of it .. either here on RUclips or online otherwise. Thanks for all your wonderful videos ❤️
Kind regards, Mie
this is a great question. I think your best bet would be to learn how to do contiguous sleeves. This would allow you to carry stripes from the body to the sleeve perfectly. The short row method, whether GSR or otherwise may not match exactly row to row from the body to the sleeve. Also, changing colors at each end of the short rows is going to present their own set of problems and may not look very tidy. I think you will love the contiguous sleeve method. Google it.
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Thank you for a quick and useful reply! I will look into that method for sure 🤗👍🏼❤️🧶
method two explanation starts at 20:18 :)
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I’ve searched your videos and was wondering if you’ve done one on after thought heels. That’s something I’d be interested in seeing your explanation for.
I will add this to my video todo list. Thank you for the suggestion.
I watched your video and it has helped me but I wonder after you did the wrap and turns and skipped to the end of the heel... Did you just continue knitting straight back and forth to finish the heel? I knitted all my double stitches together, did the wrap and turns and am stumped. I realize that knitting the rest of the heel is not that much work and can easily be ripped back and re-knitted but if I don't have to I'd rather not.
Thank you for the tutorial, great job. Have a little problem though. I believe I follow the instructions, (well I guess not), but when I finish the heel (second method) I have the main color on the wrong side. I cannot figure what I'm doing wrong?
Try it again on a swatch
Thank you Suzanna for ur videos. I still have a question about the heel stitches, do they have to be the first half of the round? Or it doesn’t really matter, which half should be knitted as the heel or as instep. Bcz in the beginning of the video, you mention that the tail of the main color should be on the left side.😢
Thank you so much your videos have taught me so much about knitting and I love learning new things and new ways of doing old things. 😊 I do have a question, I knit my socks on one needle, is it possible to do this method on the one long needle? Thank you again 💓
yes, you would just make the divisions at the sides where I am using the two needles.
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thanks for this super-duper video! One question: this type of heel can be very shallow depending on the foot, if you knit the second type the instep has two fewer rows no? The use of the neon yarn is genius!
Thank you for your observation.
Actually, the traditional German Short Row Heel, as shown in the first example has two more rows than other short row heels, due to the two rows which go all away around the sock. The second example, because of the added two rows to compensate for the loss of the stripe around the foot, has exactly the same number of rows as the first example. You can even count them in the cover picture if want. But, overall, your comment is correct, short row heels are shorter than heel flap/gusset heels. I have really high arches and prefer the heel flap/gusset style fo heel, but can still wear short row heels if I have to.
@@SuzanneBryan For some reason I thought the second way without the stripe around the instep would make the heel just a smidge deeper and that could be a good thing. Now I don't know. lol
They both have the same number of rows in the heel.
To follow-up on heel depth w short row heels - if we initially divide the stitches with the center section a couple of stitches less will that make a slightly bigger/deeper heel? For example, starting heel with 36 st = divide them 13, 10, 13? Or too lopsided?
Great video. I have a question 🙋 I'm curious why you use two circulars and not just the one. Is it possible just to use the one circular.
This is a great question. You can choose one long circular and use magic loop, 2 24" circulars and use two at once or dpns. It is personal preference.
The techniques are the same.
I have one question: Did you purl back with the main color so that it would be there to be picked up when you finished the contrasting heel?
Nope. because I am working with the two circulars, I can start or stop the yarn at either end. Watch again and you will see what I did.
Do you have a video that covers how to knit a short row heel if you have a high instep?
This is such a great question. I have seen short row heels with additional rows at the leg edge, but they really do not increase the depth of the instep, which is the problem with high arches. I have exceptionally high arches, and although I can wear short row heels, I much prefer heel flap and gusset style heels. If the sock is a plain sock with no particular patterning happening over the instep, you can get away with the short row heel, but if there is stranding or any other type of patterning that will fall over the instep, the short row heel will cause the fabric to stretch over the instep and distort the patterning. Look at lots of hand knit socks on feet, with attention to the instep and you will see what I mean. This would be a great video topic. Thank you Elaine. Happy knitting.
recently i've been trying the short row toe method and i really love the look of this heel but not sure on how to do it on a toe with the two stockinette rows.
I'm not quite sure you would do the the extra rows when doing a toe, since you don't have an instep. Cause your foot goes in where the extra rows are . I LOVE the GSR toe , it fits me so well lol and I think it's pretty. I could be wrong about this I'm still kinda new compared to most people but just from my experience in GSR toes I don't think the extra rows are possible.
You would have to leave out those two rows. I am working on the next video right now, which is doing a toe up german short row toe. Stay tuned.
Steel Toes and Stilettos, you are very correct. Stay tuned for the next video.
You should use 4 sets of points needles get easy for you make socks
It is personal preference. I use double pointed needles, 2 circulars or magic loop. they all work pretty much the same for me. But each person has their preference and that is just fine. Knitting is for everyone and there is no one right or wrong way. Happy knitting.
Oh, interesting, I do GSR heels with double DS!
Excellent. Try comparing the two methods and see which you prefer.
Are you ok? You have not posted in a month
Thank you. I need to get back to it. I have plans for more. thank you so much!
@@SuzanneBryan Happy to see that you’re OK