From Little Folks: A Magazine for the Young, 1884. Astarte sends the following directions, in answer to W. M.’s question as to how to make a pair of baby’s woolen shoes, suitable for a bazaar:
One ounce of white Berlin wool. A chain of thirty-four stitches; double-crochet into this for thirty rows, taking the back stitch, so as to form a rib. Then crochet fifteen stitches, turn and go back to end of row, then go back again for fourteen stitches, and so on, taking one less each time until there are only seven left. Do this on both sides of the leg to form the foot. Break off the wool, fasten it at the top of the leg, then crochet down to the instep and back again, doing one less each time until only two stitches remain. Then work down to the instep, do an edging of treble crochet, then work another edging (button-hole stitch) all round the edging of flourishing thread. Then join the foot loosely down the middle, and sew up the leg so that the part increased flaps over. For the sole of the foot, make a chain of fourteen stitches, and work it up and down until there are thirteen ribs; in the last two rows, leave out a stitch at each corner. Sew the sole on to the foot, and the boot is finished.
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