Knitting Lessons in Socks and Stockings

Knitting lessons in socks and stockings: For a lady’s stocking it is best to decrease once and increase three times for the calf of the leg. For a gentleman this is unnecessary. You must always remember in ribbed stockings to carry on the ribs and seam-stitches all down the back of the heel until you begin to round it. The ribs on the front of the foot must be continued on until within an inch of decreasing for the toe.

The seam-stitch is made by knitting a certain stitch in two rounds and pearling it in the third.

Before decreasing for the instep, do two or three plain rounds and then begin.

The ‘flap’, or heel, before it is rounded ought to be 3 inches, or even more, as a long heel wears better. It also makes it much stronger to knit it double with Angora wool of the same color as the knitting.

Except for young boys socks fit quite well without being decreased at all for the ankle.

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