FIG. 361. ITALIAN STOCKING.]

Sew up the slits left open on either side, with a needle and thread
taking care to fit the corresponding stitches together.

In this manner, when one part wears out, you have only to unpick these
side-seams and re-sole or re-heel the stocking as the case may be.

TOE (fig. 362).--To begin as before, with the simplest and most
ordinary way of making this part of the stocking, divide the stitches
equally on to the 4 needles; knit together the 4th and 3rd stitches
before the end of the 1st and 3rd needles, knit the 2 last and 2 first
stitches of the 2nd and 4th needles plain, and make an intake by
slipping the 3rd stitch, knitting the 4th, and pulling the slipped
stitch over. Begin by knitting 2 plain rounds after each of the first 4
rounds with an intake, and afterwards only one. When you have only 4
stitches left on each needle, collect them on two, and knit them
together, two and two, on the wrong side of the stocking.

[Illustration: FIG. 362. TOE.]

TOE (fig. 363).--Here, before beginning to decrease, divide the
stitches by 8, 10, or 12. Supposing that they have been divided by 10,
knit 8 plain; knit the 9th and 10th together, 8 plain, knit two
together, and so on, the whole way round. Then knit as many plain rounds
as there are plain stitches between 2 intakes. In the next rounds with
intakes, you will have one stitch less between each intake, in the
second therefore, there should be 7 plain stitches between each intake,
and you knit 7 plain rounds; and so on to the 7th round, when 2 stitches
will remain, followed by 2 plain rounds; when there are only 4 stitches
left on the needles, turn them in to the wrong side of the stocking,
and finish off with a chain.

[Illustration: FIG. 363. TOE.]

TOE (fig. 364).--Begin the intakes with the two first stitches of each
needle, by the slip and pull over process, knit one plain round after
each round with an intake. In the following rounds, make the intake in
the 2nd round with the 3rd and 4th stitches, in the 3rd, with the 5th
and 6th stitches, in the 4th, with the 7th and 8th stitches, so that
when finished the intakes form a kind of spiral. Finish off in the
ordinary way.

[Illustration: FIG. 364. TOE.]

TOE (fig. 365).--We will describe one other kind of toe, quite as
shapely and easy to make as the others.

[Illustration: FIG. 365. TOE.]

1st round--purl the first 2 stitches on each needle together.

2nd and 3rd, 5th and 6th,