I know I've said it before, but there's something very satisfying about turning the heel on a sock. It's almost like, "Score one for human ingenuity!"



And Nancy Bush's sock patterns are pretty ingenious. For example - here, the Diaper Knitting pattern is extended down onto the heel flap while the Citron pattern - because it wouldn't wear well - gets ditched in favor of plain knitting.

"Diaper" pattern has 3 rows of k1, p1 (on the right side) followed by 3 rows of p1, k1 (again, on the right side). It's kind of like an extended version of seed stitch.

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I think I'm probably going to do some re-drafting for the sweater sleeve pattern. I'm going to figure out what a "comfortable" cuff diameter is, knit the "frill" that long, pick up the (smaller) number of stitches and just figure out how many more increases I will need to do. (It may actually work out that I can use the same increase "schedule" as what's given for the shorter sleeves, because it may be I need to use so much smaller a number of stitches for the cuff that in order to get up to the 65 (or however many) stitches needed for the widest part of the sleeve, I may need to do that many more increases.

I think I'm going to do one sleeve first just to work everything out right, and keep detailed notes on what I'm doing.