This textured stitch right here is called the slip stitch heel and people use it to make a textured and sturdy and stretchy heel flap and it looks nice, right? How's these columns of slip stitches? And see how stretchy it is? So that's really nice if you you know are not exactly sure about the the width of someone's heel that you make in their sock for you don't have to change really a whole lot to make the sock larger right it'll fit pretty much any any foot because it's so stretchy and it's really easy to write all you have to do is knit and slip and purl so it's a series of two rows the first row on the right side row looks like this slip one just like this purl wise knit one and we just repeat that all the way down slip one knit one oops I'll show you Americans style to you in a minute just like that slip one knit one slip one knit one make sure that you end with a knit one okay your heel flap should have an even number of stitches so that shouldn't be a problem all right go ahead and turn your work if you're knitting a sock you're gonna have like the rest of the sock right here the in step that's okay just leave it let it hang out move your yarn to the front we're gonna purl and let's do slip one again and then we're gonna purl the rest of the stitches all the way across when when instructions say slip one purl across they don't mean slip one purl one slip one purl one slip one purl one across if they did it would have an asterisk or those instructions would be in parentheses but a lot of people get confused and if you do that it's not gonna work your slip stitches will get all little got bunched up and really angry at you it just won't it won't go so we just purl the rest of the row on the wrong side it's that easy it's so easy okay so let's look at this American style and I'll answer some questions that you may possibly have about doing the heel stitch this way let's go ahead and slip one and knit all right slip one and knit and basically the most common one is you forget where you are which sounds incredible right because it's only two steps right slip one knit one you forget where you are so there's two things that you can do the first one is to look at your yarn you're working yarn and take a look at it where it's attached give a tug you can see that it's connected to this loop right there you just made that lip you just knitted it on if you've slipped one it's going to look like this you're gonna tug your yarn it's gonna be attached back here to this stitch so you can just count forward knit one slip one it's time to knit now and on this heel flap you can also look at your knitting and see what it's time to do right these columns here are the slipped stitches so you can just look down and look for the stretched out stitches and say oh I need to slip it again right here slip knit and slip knit all right and the second question that people have is why do I have to slip the first stitch of every row and I generally do that like on scarves and everything that I knit flat I think it looks better but here we have a specific oh I said I was gonna do an American style didn't I okay there we go we have a specific reason for slipping the first stitch of every row on the heel flap and that is because we're gonna be picking up and knitting stitches along the side and slipping the first stitch makes it really easy to do that I'm gonna show you why when we get to the end all right so you can see this heel flap is pretty easy it's a nice way to add a little bit more interest to your top down socks okay or any sock that has a heel flap basically and let's take a look at the side here there's there's our row of slip stitches and you can see they're nice and elongated it's gonna be easy to pick up and knit into that stitch when the time comes so that's why you have to slip the first stitch of a row and there's our slip stitch heel flap