Okay. Ruffled sock pattern. This is for the ruffle. The line in the pattern says:
K1. (yfwd) twice. *K5, slip 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th sts over first st, (yfwd) twice.

Question One:
*YFWD(Yarn Forward) also means YO(Yarn Over). So if you havn't done that before it does mean to wrap the yarn around the needle twice.

Question Two:

K5. Slip 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th sts over first st. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN? I have done a slip, knit, then pass the slipped stitched over the last knit and off right hand needle before, but nothing like this. What needle am I slipping these stitches from, and am I slipping them across to another needle or am I dropping them off?

*This is like the slip passover BUT you are going to do 4 in a row. If you want get a marker to show where the first stitch (of the K5). I like a small scrap of a different color. Someone once told me "Don't think about what it's telling you to do, just do what it says." So K5, take S(titch)2 slip over S1, S3 slip over S1, S4 over S1, S5 over S1.

Question 3: Pick up and knit stitches along the side of the heel flap.

I am assuming that I insert a single DPN (as a right needle) in the edge of the flap, yarn over, and draw the yarn through to stay on the right needle even though there is no left needle involved. Is this correct?

*There is a great sock demo that shows this every well. I think I have the link done right (http://www.royea.net/sockdemo1.html). Page 3 is picking up the gusset. That has been one of the best explainations I've seen on the web.

I hope this has helped you some and feel free to ask anything eles if you need too.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sock Demo

Knit over the next 20 stitches in pat. Does this mean to continue the pattern as is, OR knit the next 20 stitches no matter what the previous pattern was?? Thanks for your help! Sandi

I think it means to continue the pattern set over the next 20 sts. so you will be doing the above described pattern another 4 times.

Hi Dances! Is this the same one I re-wrote for you on the ruffle a year or two ago? I know I helped you with a sock ruffle, but I don't remember what the pattern was.

Tami

I looked at the sock site you sent, ltfightr, and boy, is that great. AFter not having knitted socks for several years I decided to do some this winter, and that gusset gave he grief....I finally got it, but this demo sure would have taken care of my questions...thanks for sending it. I've put it in my favorites. I'm going to be doing some knitting classes at a woman's shelter, and will sure print this out to take with me.