Babies' Boots

Ingredients

• One ounce of white single zephyr
• one ounce of colored
• two knitting needles

Method

1. 1

   Cast on eighty stitches of the colored and knit ten times across, making a stitch at the beginning of each needle.

2. 2

   Knit plain back and forth twelve times, then knit thirty-six stitches, knit two together, knit fourteen, then two together, then thirty-six, now knit back again thirty-six.

3. 3

   Take the white zephyr and knit sixteen stitches, knitting two together for the last turn and knit the sixteen again, knitting two for the last as before.

4. 4

   Knit in this way four with the white, two with the blue, then with the white again, until you have twenty-one stitches on each side.

5. 5

   Knit plain six times across, then seam, seam two and knit two until it is about half a finger deep, then bind off; sew them up on the wrong side, crochet a row of shells around the top, run a narrow ribbon through the row of holes and tie in a bow on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BABIES' BOOTS. Materials : One ounce of white single zephyr, one ounce of colored and two knitting needles

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