O.k. I re-knit the heel.
It wasn’t looking any better. Halfway through I stopped to think, and I tied reversing the logic of the knit side which is working, and applying that to the purl side, which is not.
What I have now is a heel where the gaps are closed, but which is a lumpy, bumpy mess – rather than a neat line of stitches such as I have on the right hand (knit) side.
Clearly I am missing something…
I cannot find many references to this technique, and certainly no video tutorials.
Do you know of any? Can you help? please?
The yarn won’t take much more abuse…
http://misocrafty.squarespace.com/journal/2006/9/21/short-row-heel-tutorial.html
this any good? maybe you’ve seen it already, must confess I have only once managed a short row heel successfully and I have no idea what I did, never managed to repeat it.
Thankyou, Jenny, that’s a wrapped stitch, rather than the tightened yarnover but it looks like a good technique to follow when I have given up on this one!
LOL yes, short-row heels seem a bit that way.