A Baby’s Stocking
Cast on twenty-three stitches in brown,—No. 18 needles, and knit six turns,—increasing one stitch at each end, for the toe and heel.
Knit six turns, increasing one stitch only, at the toe. There will now be forty-one stitches on the needle. Cast off twenty-five stitches, and knit the remaining sixteen stitches, for eighteen turns. One side of the shoe and instep will now be made.
Cast on twenty-five stitches, and work the other side of the shoe to correspond.
Pick up the stitches, with white, across the instep. Knit two turns, catching in one loop of the sides of the shoe, in each row, to join them together.
Knit one turn in brown; two in white; one in brown; two in white; and one in brown.—The shoe and instep will now be finished.
Pick up the stitches of the shoe, on each side of the piece which forms the instep. There should now be forty stitches on the needle.
Knit seven turns in white; then, eighteen turns, increasing a stitch at the beginning and end of every other turn. Knit three plain turns; then eighteen turns,—decreasing one stitch in every other turn, at the beginning and end.
Forty stitches will now be found on the needle. Knit and pearl two, alternately, for five turns. Knit two plain rows. Knit one row in red; then, cast off loosely.
The shoe is to be sewn up into its shape, and the stocking closed up.