I never started a pair of socks with this method before, but it is simple enough to do! I never did this kind of heel before either, it was tricky and I had to pay careful attention to the directions because it was not intuitive at all. I never did a picot cuff before. I am worried about the socks staying up without any ribbing in the cuff, time will tell. So much new stuff that I learned on these! Not too hard though, and I’m happy with the results.