instructions for knitting Heel of a Stocking or Sock

Instructions for knitting tutorial: To inexperienced knitters the heel seems to present mountains of difficulty, but in reality the mountain is but a mole-hill after all. The following pattern is one of the best:

Divide your stitches. We will say you have fifty altogether on three needles; take 12 on each side of the seam-stitch and knit these 25 backward and forward in rows, not rounds, making the seam-stitch all the same; you must pearl backward, so as to keep the knitting even.

Continue until you have made a flap about three inches long, always slipping the first knitted stitch.

Now knit, from the right-hand side, the 12 stitches; then the seam-stitch, which from this time forward you cease to make.

Knit four stitches beyond it; knit two together; knit 1; turn, pearl until you get to four beyond the seam-stitch, pearl two together, pearl 1, turn. Knit until you come to the stitch in the previous row where you turned; you may know it easily by the little hole which was formed by the turning; you now knit two together and knit one more stitch, then turn. Pearl the next row, of course always pearling two together where the little hole has been left, and so on until you have gradually worked off the stitches. You then pick up the side-stitches of this flap, and the heel is finished.

Instructions for knitting: To decrease for the toe of a sock or stocking.

Put half your stitches on one needle, a quarter on the second, and a quarter on the third needle. Thus: suppose you have 60 stitches, you must have 30 on one side and 15 on the other two. The 30 must be the front or ribbed part, the two pins with 15 stitches on them ought to be the sole part.

In doubling your knitting now, the front part ought to lie evenly on the sole of the foot. Begin to knit the 30 stitches; knit 27, slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over, knit 1.

Continue plain knitting. Now begin the third pin; knit 12, slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over, knit 1. Now you begin again on the 30. Knit one, knit two together. Continue plain. Do two rounds plain and then decrease again in the same manner four stitches in every round, leaving always two stitches between the decreasin, remembering always to do two rounds of plain knitting between each decreasing round.

Repeat for two inches and cast off.

Some people only do one round between the decreasing; this plan makes the toe rounder and more puckered.

Instructions for knitting: Decreasing for instep.

On the right-hand side of the heel, just where the ribs leave off, you slip 1, knit 1; pass the slipped stitch over; continue plain knitting; and where the ribs begin again you knit two together. You must remember that on the right side of the heel you slip, and on the left you knit two together.

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