Me and my sock obsession are having glorious days. Thank you everyone for your too-kind inputs on my finished river rapids!

My mom's birthday is right around the corner and I plan on letting her benefit from my sock madness as well. I hope the Opal Hagebutte will do the trick.

I'm using a zick-zack pattern from Das geniale Sockenbuch. Which brings me to the heel mystery. Looking through blogs from all over the world I am getting very concious about heels. So far I have only been knitting the heel-flap-turn-heel-pick-up-stitches-heel and feel I am sort of getting the grip on this a little by little. Then of course I have to try something new. I want a heel looking like this. (Scroll down to the pink socks. Moni is btw one fabulous sock knitter). This heel is also known as: Sherman heel. Short row heel. Hourglass heel. Boomerang heel. I have been reading and searching and scratching my head. There seem to be one hundred different ways of knitting this heel and the mystery lies first and foremost in the way of turning between the short rows. I finally ended up with the german version from the previously mentioned genial sockbook. After hard struggeling over the seemingly straight foreward german description of how to make "die Bumerang-Ferse" - I made it!! What really made me fight for hours last night was this little sentence: "eine doppelte masche arbeiten" - "work one double stitch". Simple as that. Then there was a 7-line explanation on how a double stitch actually is worked. When I finally figured out I was in awe. So simple, so genial. No wrapping around stitches - only the double stitch.. Anyone know what I'm talking about??!

Here is my proof, I got it:

I hereby rename you, your name shall be the Packman-heel!