I love that sweater

It's beautiful. I ordered in yarn and I'm ready to start knitting as soon as I can finish these socks.

I'm ahead enough with the 52PPII that I can afford a little sweater break.

OT, but I liked the heel on your Plurk socks so much, I wondered if you had a formula for substituting it in any pattern?

I've been wanting to knit that top since she first knit it on her blog

I was hoping she'd release a pattern for it

jennys_wonderland, it's pretty simple. I can outline it for you.

Step 1 -- Multiply your total # of stitches for the sock x 60%. That is the amount of stitches you'll want to work the heel on.

Step 2 -- Round the number up to the next even #.

Step 3 -- Subtract the # of heel stitches from that 60% number and divide by 2 to find how many increase rounds you'll need.

Step 4 -- Work an increase round K1, M1R, K to the last stitch, M1L, K1 followed by the next instep instruction (or instep 1st if that's how

you started). Then work a plain round for the heel side and then the next instep instruction.

Step 5 -- After making all the increase rounds (and their paired plain rounds) work the short row heel.

I generally decrease until I have 1/3 of the number of heel stitches unwrapped, and then increase back up.

Step 6 -- Begin paired decrease rounds to get back to the original number of heel/sole stitches. Decrease round followed by plain round.

And there you have it.

The beauty of this heel is that you work it exactly the same whether you are going toe-up or top down.

Hattie, I started swatching for it today. I believe I'm going to need to use a size larger needle to get gauge.

thank you so much for outlining this for me.

You're welcome. Just holler if you need any clarification.

another quick question - I briefly read thru the instructions and ...

it looks like I can gauge when to start the heel like the plurk pattern, is that right?

Yes, you can. Just calculate how many rounds for increases, plus how many short rows you'll have to get down to your unwrapped stitches.

For instance if you start with 30 stitches and are working up to 36 and then down to 12, that would take 6 for the increases and 24 more for

the decreases to 12 before short rowing back up or 30 rounds/rows. Divide that by your row gauge and subtract from foot lenth to know when

to start the heel.

If you have a higher instep/larger or wider heel, just adjust the number of stitches you need to increase to something that works better

for you, like 65%, 70%, etc.

For the mini-gusset.

thanks again! you're awesome.

You're very welcome!