I used dpns and adapted the pattern as follows:

When you’re ready to begin the heel, the leg having reached the desired length ending with row 4 of the texture pattern,

• knit 16 stitches on needle 1

• move the remaining stitches on needle 1 to needle 2

• turn the work

• knit 3, purl 29 (that is, 13 stitches from needle 1 and 16 from needle 3). This forms row 1 of the Eye of Partridge heel pattern.

• move the remaining stitches on needle 3 to needle 2

• turn the work

• with needle 1 holding the heel stitches being worked and needle 2 holding the instep stitches to be worked later, continue with the Eye of Partridge heel pattern from row 2 onwards.

  Turn the heel as directed; pick up the edge stitches on one side, work across the instep stitches as per row 1 of the texture pattern, pick up the edge stitches on the other side, and continue to knit across half the heel stitches (9). Assuming you cast on 64 stitches, you should now have 26 on needle 1, 32 for the instep on needle 2, and 26 on needle 3, with the round beginning at the centre of the heel.

  Knit the gussets as instructed, decreasing as per the pattern on the last few stitches on needle 1 and the first few on needle 3, the instep stitches being knit in the texture pattern.

  When the foot is the desired length, begin the toe decreases as follows:

• on needle 1, knit to the last three stitches, k2tog, k1

• on needle 2, k1, ssk, knit to the last three stitches, k2tog, k1

• on needle 3, k1, ssk, knit to the end

  When the toe is the desired length and you have 24 stitches remaining, knit across needle 1 so that the yarn is coming from the side of the toe; graft the toe stitches.