e length of the row;--knit one plain row in pink,
taking up the stitches that were cast off for the toe. This side of the
shoe is to be made to correspond with the other, by decreasing instead
of increasing.--The shoe and the white in the instep will now be
finished.
Pick up the stitches both of the shoe and instep;--knit three plain
turns. Take a larger needle,--bring the wool forward, knit two together,
forming the holes to pass the ribbon through.
Knit three plain turns with the small needle. In the next row, bring the
wool forward, knit two together.
Knit three plain rows. In the next,--bring the wool forward, knit two
together; repeat the same, until the sock be of the height
desired.--Cast off very loosely.
Another Baby's Sock.
Four-thread fleecy, or four-thread _Lady Betty's_ wool.--No. 11 needles.
Cast on twenty-six stitches.
_First row_--pearl two; knit two; alternately, to the end of the row.
_Second row_--knit two; pearl two.
_Third row_--Pearl two; knit two.
_Fourth row_--Pearl knitting.
Repeat the above four rows, twelve times,--making altogether fifty-two
rows--but, in the fifty-second row, pearl fourteen stitches only, and
cast off the remaining twelve stitches. Then,--
Raise fourteen stitches, pearling them at the same time, at the
commenced end, leaving twelve, to correspond with those cast off at the
other end. Repeat the four rows, as before, three times,--making in all
twelve rows. Fasten off, by drawing up these stitches with a needle and
wool, to form the toe, and sew up the shoe at the sole.
Twenty-seven stitches are now to be raised at the top of the shoe, round
the leg; then,--alternately pearl one row, and knit one row, for five
rows, and cast off.--This forms a finish to the top. The shoe is to be
laced across with ribbon.
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
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