The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

This instep piece is to be ribbed in rows of four, viz: four rows in which the plain side is uppermost, and four rows in which the pearled side is uppermost. We now commence the leg portion of the sock. With the needle which has been left in the first side of the slipper carefully pick up the edge-stitches all along the instep-piece and side of the slipper; when this is done, there should be about fifty on the needle. Take the wool and knit all along, including the picked up stitches, and the seventeen originally on the needle. Knit two rows. 4th row--Knit two; X make two (not by picking up, but in the ordinary way, by passing the wool twice over the needle), and knit two together; knit one; X repeat. 5th row--Knit all; casting off one of each of the double made stitches. Now knit twenty rows ribbed like the instep-piece. 26th row--X Knit one; make one and knit two together; X repeat all round. 27th row--Knit. 28th row--Knit two; X make one and knit two together; knit one; X repeat. 29th, 30th, and 31st rows--Knit. 32nd row--Cast off. Take a wool needle, thread it with wool, and sew up the sock neatly, stitch for stitch, from the top of the leg to the point of the sole; then sew the toe; turn it; put on a little rosette of raveled wool; run a ribbon in and out through the holes at rows 4 and 5, of the leg portion, and it is completed.