Shadow Wrap Heel

This ist the original guide, with no "empty" rows in between the curving parts of the heel.

It is majorly important to turn of vertical repeats for a sensible map!

This map is an (maybe miserable) attempt at describing the process for a shadow-wrap heel.

General infomation

For this map, I chose 44 stitches for the sock. A sock is of course, usually knitted in the round, but I need to describe the rounds as "rows" to render a more usable (if you can call it that) graph. In other words, just ignore Rows 1, 2, 31 and 32, as those are the "rows" where you come from and go back to your "normal" sock pattern.

This means the heel is worked over 22 of those stitches (half of 44), which in turn means you "park" the remaining 2 x 11 = 22 stitches and work in short rows. Like a boomerang heel, the heel gets then split into 3 even sections.

NOTE: The middle may consist of more stitches, if the number of heel stitches is non-divisable by 3, so in this example 22 / 3 = 7 with a remainder of 1, which we add to the middle section so we get a division of 7-8-7.

JFYI: The shadow wraps never happen in the middle section.

I tried to seperate these different sections by seperating them into individual knits and purls, instead of clustering everything together. For example, if you look at Row 4, you will always be able to distinguish the untouched middle section. This should hopefully greatly help in understanding the whole concept.

Difference to "Shadow-Wrap Heel (Roomier)"

In the roomier version, the vertical repeats parameter increases the number of rows in between the "curving" parts of the heel, if one needs a deeper heel, etc.. For normal use, I would suggest to try it without them. It also produces holes at the sides, which probably should be dealt with. For normal use just use this one and turn vertical repeats to one.

The thing about the shadow-wrap

The "tricky" part with this map was describing the shadow-wrap.

A shadow-wrap on the RS is executed like so:

1. lift the stitch 1 row under the 1st stitch of the left needle (the one to be knitted next)
2. knit 1
3. slip the just knitted stitch back onto the left needle to create the shadow wrap, which looks somewhat like a double stitch (there doesn't seem a possibility to slip in the reverse direction on _stitch-maps.com, which is why I need to slip at the beginning of the following row)_
4. turn

A shadow wrap on the WS is executed like so:

1. slip 1 stitch (the one to be purled next) with the working yarn in front of the needle onto the right needle
2. lift the stitch 1 row under the just slipped stitch onto the left needle
3. purl 1
4. slip the new shadow-wrap (the whole "double stitch"!) back onto the left needle
5. turn

Identify the shadow-wraps

Because there is no "shadow-wrap" terminology on this site, I had to try and describe the whole process a bit differently for a stitch map to be generated

Each shadow-wrap on the RS is described as:

Row n: [...], incR, turn Row n+1: Sl1 wyif, [...]

Each shadow-wrap on the WS is described as:

Row n: [...], incRp, turn Row n+1: Sl1 wyib, [...]

Note that when you encounter a shadow-wrap, which should be knitted or purled, you always treat it as a single stitch, which means technically speaking you're always k2tog-/ p2tog-ing a shadow-wrap

Caveats

I may be using the wrong symbols / words right now to describe the whole process, but it was the best and most accurate description of the process I could come up with. It should hopefully provide some guidance, especially when toggling on the "row lines" and/or "vertical lines" options for the graph or at least help visualize the process a little bit.

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