Best fitting heel ever! I love this heart-shaped heel. According to Stephanie Van der Linden, this heel is best for wide foot with high instep. I don’t have wide feet, but I do have a strange fat pad just above my arch that needs a gusset or the instep is too stretched and distorted.

Lufthexe means Air Witch in German. I immediately think of Morgause, the witch Queen in T.H. White’s The Queen of Air and Darkness. Morgause is King Arthur’s half-sister and the mother of his son Mordred, as well as Gawain and I believe Gareth. (There are so many Arthurian tales, and her role often changes).

The pattern is written in German, but is not difficult to translate. I am going to knit the heel as written, so that did take some extra work. For those wanting to knit the sock with their favorite heel/toe, I will list the symbols here and the charts will be simple to follow.

Blank squares Knit
Dot. Purl
2 K2tog
U Yarn over
4/2 2 to CN front, k4, k2 from CN
1 M1
R Selvedge (edge stitch) pattern suggests Sl first stitch knit wise and ktbl the last stitch.

There’s also an RR, but I haven’t gotten that far and don’t know what it is. I will figure it out by the end of the heel flap, though! (i didn’t do anything special on the last row of the heel. I think the RR is to remind that the last row is a WS row, and the chart previously only showed RS rows).

20 rounds ribbing
Leg: 7 repeats + 4 rows
Heel turn down to 18 stitches
Picked up 17 + 1 gusset stitches
Foot: starting on row 5, work through 10 repeats of chart.
Band toe (I didn’t move stitches from the instep to heel before starting the toe decreases) Decrease EOR down to 20 stitches on the instep, then decrease every row down to 12 stitches (knitting sole even until both are at 16 stitches). Knit 1 row even, passing edge stitches over and graft.