The Foot.
Reading edition
Q. How do you begin the foot?
A. By taking up the stitches at the sides of the heel on the second row.
Q. How many stitches do you take up for the foot?
A. Sixteen on each side of the heel.
Q. What do you do next?
A. I narrow every second round on each side of the instep till the number is even with the ankle.
Q. How many narrowings do you make?
A. Seven on each side.
Q. How many stitches will there be then?
A. Fifty-six.
Q. How many rounds do you make between the heel and toe narrowings?
A. Twenty-eight.
Q. How do you begin the toe?
A. By narrowing twice at each side, leaving two stitches only between; this decreases four stitches.
Q. How often do you narrow?
A. Twice, leaving three rounds between, twice leaving two, twice leaving one, then every round till I have sixteen stitches left.
Q. How do you finish?
A. I put the two needles that have the stitches on them together.
Q. What next?
A. I take a stitch from each, and knit them together. When two stitches are done in this way, I cast the first over the last, and so on till they are all taken off.
Q. How do you widen?
A. By knitting two stitches in the same loop.