Knitted Bed Socks

For detail see First Stitches, Knitting, pages 12–16

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT Saxony Yarn

2 skeins white

2 skeins colored

2 Steel Knitting Needles, No. 13

5 Steel Knitting Needles, No. 15

1 Steel Crochet Hook, No. 7, Style 2

1⅓ yards Ribbon, ½ inch wide

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for white and brown.)

These bed socks, so out of the ordinary, fit snugly on almost any foot because of their elasticity.

Begin at the top with the brown yarn, use the coarser needles and cast on 60 stitches.

1st row: Knit plain.

2nd row: Purl all the stitches.

3rd row: Knit plain.

4th row: Purl.

5th row: Knit plain.

6th row: Purl.

These rows make 1 rib. The purled stitches will come on right side of sock.

Start with the white yarn and purl 1st row. 2nd row knit plain, 3rd row purl, and 4th row knit plain. These 4 rows are knitted plain on right side of sock. Repeat them between every brown rib. Work 13 brown ribs.

Start the toe in white.

1st row: Purl the stitches.

2nd row: Knit plain, and decrease 1 stitch at each end of row.

Now repeat and knit plain on right side of sock and purl the stitches on the other side. Decrease 1 stitch at each end of every row. Repeat until there are 4 stitches left. Leave the 4 stitches on needle and pick up all the stitches on both edges for front. Use the finer needles and take up 1 stitch for every 2 rows, or 5 stitches for each brown rib and white stripe. Pick up 1 stitch for every row at the toe, 30 stitches in all, on one side, and the same on other edge. Now divide all the stitches on 4 needles. Start with white yarn on right side of sock.

1st row: Knit plain.

2nd row: Purl, and decrease 4 stitches at the toe: 1 stitch on each side of the 4 remaining stitches, and 1 more stitch on each side 10 stitches from 1st increasing.

Repeat this increasing 2 times more on every other row.

Knit plain on right side of sock and purl on the other side. Make 2 more rows in white, then 2 rows in brown, 4 in white and 2 in brown and bind off. Sew front together.

156Crochet border at top. 1st row, in white: Make a chain of 3 stitches, take up 2 loops from the chain and 2 loops, 1 in each stitch, on the rib below. Put yarn over hook and pull through all on needle at once and make 1 chain. Next stitch: Take up 1st loop in the space below the 1 chain and 2nd loop in the back of last loop on preceding stitch. Pick up the 2 last loops as before and repeat to end of row.

2nd row in white: Work 1 double crochet and make 1 chain for each star stitch on row below. This row is for the ribbon.

Last row, in brown: Make 1 single crochet and 4 double crochet between every other double crochet on row below.

Pull ribbon through and tie.

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