Baby's Knitted Sock

Ingredients

• One ounce of single Berlin wool
• one yard of narrow pink or blue ribbon
• two fine steel needles

Method

1. 1

   Cast on twenty-two stitches and knit twenty-two rows, increasing once at the end of every other row on the right side until there are thirty-three stitches.

2. 2

   Cast off twenty-eight stitches and knit twelve rows, increasing one stitch at the end of every other row.

3. 3

   Then knit twelve more rows, decreasing one stitch at the end of every other row to form the toe.

4. 4

   Cast on twenty-eight stitches on the same needle and knit twenty-two rows, decreasing one stitch at the end of every other row, then cast off.

5. 5

   Pick up sixty-eight stitches on the upper part of the shoe and knit twenty rows, alternating two plain and two purl rows, decreasing one stitch on each side of the twelve stitches in every other row.

6. 6

   Knit fourteen rows of two plain, two purl stitches alternately, then three open rows with one plain row between, three times over.

7. 7

   Cast off.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 544. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

baby's knitted sock. Materials for one pair : One ounce of single Berlin wool, one yard of narrow pink or blue ribbon, two fine steel needles

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