(_Courtesy of Mrs. Horace Leeds_)
1½ Hanks Knitting Worsted (or 6 Ounces)
2 Steel Needles No. 12
Cast on 80 stitches. Knit 2 plain and purl 2 for 4 inches. Then plain
across one needle and purl across the other for rest of sock, being
careful to knit on the right side and purl on the wrong. Knit 6 inches
or until heel is reached.
Beginning on the right side knit 20 stitches, purl back to beginning of
the needle, continue for 16 rows, then narrow one stitch each time at
the beginning of the needle until you have 14 stitches on the needle.
Bind off all but the last stitch. Take up the stitches on the side of
the heel and knit across the needle. Purl back for the other side of the
heel and continue as for the first half of heel, narrowing at the end of
the needle until there are 14 stitches and binding off as before. Take
up stitches on this side of heel, narrow one stitch on each side where
heel joins the top until you have 70 stitches. Knit 6 inches, narrow
once in 7 stitches, then knit 7 times across, narrow once in 6 stitches
and knit 6 times across, and so on until you narrow every stitch, and
continue until about 8 stitches remain, then bind off. Sew sock up the
back and it is finished.