With Berlin fingering-wool only cast on 98, and proceed as with Girl’s Stocking, [page 19].
Sock for a Child of Two Years Old.
In merino yarn and pins No. 17.
Cast on 23 on the first pin, 22 on the second, and 20 on the third. Knit a plain round, keeping the first stitch as the seam-stitch. Do ten rounds in ribs of 2 plain, 2 pearl. Now do plain knitting, and decrease twice in every fourth round for 12 rounds. Knit 10 rounds. Take 14 on each side of the seam-stitch for the heel, knit backwards and forwards for 20 rows; turn (see [page 11]). Take up 10 side-stitches, and reduce until you have 56 for the foot. Do 26 rounds, decrease, and cast off.
Gentleman’s Knickerbocker Stocking.
Pins, No. 15, and 11 skeins of best Scotch fingering-yarn.
This is the largest size, suitable for a gentleman of six feet in height.
Cast on 112, 37 on two pins and 38 on the third pin. Rib for about an inch by doing 1 plain and 1 pearl, remembering to have the first stitch on the first needle as the seam-stitch. You make this, by working it plain in 2 successive rounds and pearling it in the next. Then do plain knitting for 5 inches. You now begin to rib as follows:—Knit or pearl the seam-stitch, knit 3 and pearl 1. Continue to knit 3 and pearl 1 every row until 12½ inches are done. Then begin to decrease every 8 rows. You decrease on the right-hand side of the seam-stitch by slipping a stitch, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over. Work the seam-stitch and knit 2 together. If the stitch to be slipped happens to be a pearl stitch, you must not slip it but merely pearl two together on both sides. You will thus decrease 16 stitches, and now 16½ inches ought to be done. Then knit 5 more inches. You ought now to have 94 stitches for the ankle and divide for the heel. Proceed for this as on [page 11]; but as this is a large size, you must make the flap 3½ long, always slipping the first stitch. When you have turned the heel you must take up 21 stitches, and decrease for the instep at first every row; and the last 6 decreasings do every other row until you have only 92 stitches. When 9 inches of the foot are done (measuring the whole of the heel as well), you begin to decrease for the toe, which takes up 2 more inches; you then cast off, and sew up the toe on the wrong side.
Sock for a Boy of Twelve.
(SUITABLE FOR POOR PEOPLE.)