Y'all. I tried to get my sock heels done, I really did. I turned the heel of the first sock, no problems. Picked up the gusset stitches on one side...and realized (to my great horror) that there was no way for me to get to the second sock heel.
I have a hunch (though I can't find any confirmation anywhere) that my problem is due to the fact that I did my heel flap on the back needle. There aren't any tutorials anywhere I can find that explicitly state which needle you're *supposed* to do the heel flap on (and I wasn't sure it mattered), but thinking about it, if the flaps were on the front needle, I would be able to move on to the second sock heel, easy peasy (if I'm thinking about it right).
Sadly, I didn't figure all this out until after I'd removed the socks from the circular, picked up gusset stitches on both socks, and knit a round or two (thinking I could just do the turns on DPNs and then put them back). It was only then I realized another horrible problem: my DPNs are wood, and I knit MUCH tighter on them. BOO HISS.
So, my plan is to rip back, all the way to the cuff and start the flaps and everything over again. I'm still not sure how to address the problem I have of following the heel/gusset instructions in Sensational Knitted Socks, where she has you rearrange stitches (can't really do that on the circular, especially for Sock 1), but maybe it will come to me. Wish me luck!
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