the foot...
The knitting is done! As you can imagine, once you've gotten to the foot, it is just a hop, skip and jump to the toe. On Monday I explained how I knit the heel of miss autumn's stocking...today I'll guide you through to the finish!
As of Monday, I had 24 stitches in white (my instep stitches) and 8 stitches in red (my heel stitches) on my circular needle. I picked up the red yarn (the next stripe color) and knit my 8 heel stitches, placing a marker after the fourth stitch to indicate the center of the heel. Then I knit up 10 stitches on the side of the heel (those 10 slipped stitches), placed a marker, knit across the 24 white instep stitches, placed a marker, knit up the 10 slipped edge stitches on the other side of the heel, and, finally, 4 more heel stitches, bringing me back to the marker. This I considered the beginning of the round.
I had 52 stitches at this point. I knit one more round. On the third red round, I knit from the center marker to 3 stitches before the second marker, knit 2 together, knit one, slipped marker, knit 24, slipped marker, knit one, slip-slip-knit (ssk), knit 11--50 stitches. Knit one more round, then decreased once more, as above, to bring me back to my original 48 stitches. I worked these 48 stitches, in pattern, until I had 4 more stripes (the last stripe was white).
For the toe, I knit 2 rounds in red, then decreased six times evenly every other round until I had 18 stitches left, then every other round until 6 stitches were left (I changed to double-pointed needles when I had 42 stitches, of course!). Broke the yarn, and pulled it through those stitches (just like finishing the top of a beanie!). Now to weave in the ends...
