Practice Heels!

Here are two short row heels that I tried. I really dislike the looks of the 'regular' heels with the heel flaps. I think they are really unappealing to the eye. The first heel (on the left) I made was a Sherman Heel. I really didn't care for the way they came out....it could have me screwing them up, but I didn't like all the little "x" things that were along the miter.
The second heel that I tried was from the tutorial on CosmicPluto's WONDERFUL Short-Row Tutorial. She has GREAT pictures....but even with the great pics I managed to screw up the heel....but then I finally 'got' it. One of the miters looks really great, but the other one is really funky. But I get it now enough that I'm going to try to do that heel on the real socks!!
Actually, after I posted this pic I did do one heel before going to bed. I ended up with 2 wrapped stitches on one side and the other was done. :-( I think it was because of the black yarn. It was so hard for me to see which stitch was the first double-wrapped stitch. I'm getting ready to frog it right now and try again. This time I will use stitch markers to mark the wrapped stitches! DUH!!!