the Soxophone Player

Here is a sample of the Eye of the Partridge heel I knit in undyed sock yarn straight off the cone. It ain’t pretty – but shows the stitch better than I am able to photograph in dyed yarn.

I made this pair my size – I want to see how the stitch feels in a sock, and see if there really is a benefit to durability. I may not be the best tester for heels – I’ve never been hard on heels – if I break through a sock its at the big toe. Still, I want to do a test drive so see if the extra work in this heel is of any practical benefit.

Since I was banging off some test socks, I did another pair in the undyed yarn with a variation in the heel stitch:

The heel on the right is a Square Heel. It is a simplified version of the Eye of the Partridge Heel – instead of raising alternate needles on every second row of the heel flap, it is knit straight back and forth with no needle raising for the same number of rows, so is a quicker albeit plainer knit.