Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27

instep needle. Knit two stitches on
: second heel needle, knit together
d third and fourth stitches by slipping
4 and binding or by plain narrowing.
In order to slip and bind take off one
o stitch as If to knit it but without do
g ing SO, knit the next one, with the
D stitch over the knitted one. What
ever fabric seems to lap toward the
} left 1t looks better to lip and bind
but plain narrowing will do in every
case. Knit all the way around and
J as far as the place where the first
narrowing was Narrow the third
and fourth together as before and
the same on the other heel needle
Continue in this way narrowing
every other round until there are
seventeen stitches on each heel needle
sixty all the way around. Knit
plain until the foot measured from
the back of the heel is 81 inches
long.
TOE: Slip two stitches from each
heel needle onto the instep needle !
There are now fifteen stitches on each
heel needle and thirty on the instep
needle, On the instep needle, knit
two, slip and bind or narrow the
third and fourth together, knit %,
narrow third and fourth from the
left hand end, knit two Next needle,
knit two slip and bind or narrow
third and fourth. Knit eleven
stitches. Third needle, knit eleven
stitches narrow third and fourth
from end. Knit two You have now
narrowed four times in one round.
Knit two rounds plain Make "a mar
rowing round by narrowing four
times in the same places as before.
Knit two rounds plain. Make a mar
rowing round. Knit one round. Mar
row every other round until there
are five stitches on each heel needle
and ten on the instep. Knit around
once plain and slip all the heel
stitches onto one needle.
; KITCHENER TOE Break off
thread, leaving about foot. Thread
on bodkin or darning needle. Hold
work VITA thread at right hand end.
Pass bodkin through first stitch of
front needle, from the wrong side or
inside OF the sock toward the right
side, Pull the bodkin and thread
through but leave the stitch on the
knitting needle. Now on the back
needle, stick the bodkin in to the
irst stitch from the right side or
outside OF the sock With the bodkin
II the stitch, slip the stitch off the
uniting needle then stick the bodkin
nto the next stitch on the same back
needle but from the opposite direc-
ion, that is from the inside or wrong
side of the sock. Now pull the
thread through both stitches but
cave the second one still on the
uniting needle. Leave thread very
Dose for the present Now on the
ront needle, stick the bodkin into
he first stitch from the front or N
light side Using the bodkin like
knitting needle slip this stitch off
nut do not draw thread through yet
tick the bodkin into the next stitch
N the same front needle but from
wrong or inside of the sock Now =.
raw the thread through both stitches
tut leave the second one on the lA
hitting needle Continue in this :"
ray, passing the thread through two
titches on each needle alternately. ~
,lways put the bodkin into the two VI
djacent stitches from opposite d. -
ection, the first from the right side ~
nd the second from the wrong side.
lways take first stitch off the KNIT - =.
ng needle and leave the second one ~
n The thread must pass through
ach stitch twice except the last one q !
II each needle. Put your hand into
he toe when all the stitches have -
cen taken off and beginning at the 80
eginning tighten each stitch, one
y one until the stitches made with ~
he bodkin are exactly the same size -
$ those on either side. Fasten by
arning about an inch. up ami down =.
ut never across WI
tel
on