Are you tired of sock heels?

Short row, heel flap and gusset, afterthought- I’ve tried them all and none of them worked for me. They didn’t fit and I didn’t enjoy the process of doing them. I kept losing my place!

So I designed a sock heel that only uses increases and decreases, is super easy to memorize, and doesn’t require ANY short row shaping.

The Toe Up Short Cut Heel Sock Recipe is a vanilla sock recipe using my Short Cut Heel. Pattern comes with a full video tutorial to walk you through how to achieve this heel construction, which you can do in both stockinette and garter stitch. If you’re struggling with finding your perfect, easy heel, don’t give up yet! Try this Toe Up Sock!

Pattern Notes:

Yarn/Yardage- 100 grams of fingering weight yarn will be enough for any one size. Sample was knit with Knit Picks Stroll Tonal (75% super-wash merino wool, 25% nylon; 462 yards per 100 grams) in the Taffeta Hand-Painted Colorway.

Needles- 32-40 inch / 80-102 centimeters circular needle for magic loop in size US 2 (2.75mm). Or size needed to obtain gauge.

Gauge- 32 stitches and 56 rounds over 4 inches / 10 centimeters in stockinette stitch after blocking.

Notions- Scissors, yarn needle

Sizes- There are 5 sizes in the pattern, and the differing instructions for each are written as 1 (2, 3, 4, 5). Each size will give you a foot circumference measuring 5 (6, 7, 8, 9) inches / 12.5 (15, 18, 20, 23) centimeters.