Interesting link

I just came across this link via a Facebook friend, very tempted to have a go at the pattern as it actually appears here:

http://phdpanacea.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/knit-one-pearl-one/


‘little children’s lambswool shoes’:

Cast 17 stitches. Knit 1 row plain. Add a stitch at both ends every other row, till you have 23 stitches. Knit 1 row plain. Add a stitch at the end only, every other row till you have 28 stitches.
Knit 1 row plain. Knit off 16 stitches leaving 12 upon the other pin. Knit 16 rows or 8 pearl. Cast 12 stitches. Knit 2 rows plain. Diminish a stitch only at the end of every other row till you have 23 stitches.
Knit 1 row plain. Diminish a stitch at both ends every other row till you have 17 stitches. Cast off. Fasten on for the ancle. Make 30 stitches including the 12 on the pin. Knit 3 pearls of white, then 4 of colour, then 4 of white then 4 of colour. Cast off.

Adult's version:

 Cast 40 stitches. Knit 1 row plain. Add 1 stitch only at one end every other row till you have 50 stitches. Knit 10 rows plain. Cast off 25 stitches for the heel. Knit 10 rows for the toe. Cast on 25 stitches for the other side. Knit 10 rows plain. Diminish 1 stitch at one end only, every other row till you have 40 stitches left. Knit 1 row plain. Cast off. Fasten on for the ancle making 50 stitches round, knit 16 rows. Cast off. Sew it up on the wrong side, & then put on a duffield sole.

St Kilda stockings

A chance comment on Facebook led me in a roundabout way to finding this photograph on the internet; I think the stockings may be in Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow, that needs to be certified by more research. Gone on my list of knitting things to be visited, though, is a definite. In the meantime, when I've finished my current batch of knittings, I want to recreate these and write up a pattern; want to use only handspun wool,  will try for Soay and Boreray maybe, am lucky enough to have these fleeces in my stash. Always exciting to plan a new project :)