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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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