Relief Knit Stockings

You’ll need:

100g of yarn (50% cotton, 50% acryl 150m/50g);

Double pointed knitting needles 2.

Used Patterns

2 x 2 rib;

Stockinette stitch: in circle rows – all knit sts, in straight rows: right-side – knit sts, wrong-side – purls;

Relief pattern: due to the scheme.

Stitches control: 20 sts x 31 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Start making stockings from the upper part.

Cast on 64 sts and turn to circle knitting, place the sts on 4 knitting needles (16 sts on each needle). Make 4 cm of rib and turn to the relief pattern.

After knitting 33 cm, start making heel. Make heel in the same way, as for ordinary socks. Work with half sts (32 sts), i.e. on 2 knitting needles. Make 20 rows of stockinette stitch with straight and reversed rows.

For the heel rounding divide the sts (32 sts) in 3 parts: 11 sts + 10 sts + 11 sts = 32 sts. Continue making only on the central 10 sts, catching 1 st in every row from each side.

Knit these sts together with edging sts of the central part in 1 st. As a result, only 10 central sts are left.

Lift 10 selvedge sts from each side of the heel. Include the previously left sts in work and turn to circle knitting. Make the bottom part of your stockings with stockinette stitch and upper part with relief pattern.

After knitting to the height of baby toe (it’s advisably to make a fitting), make decreases for the toe: knit2tog edging sts on the knitting needles from both sides.

Knit2tog in the beginning of this row, make broaching in the end: slip 1 st as knit st, 1 knit st, draw it through the slipped st. Decrease 4 sts in the row this way.

When there are 2 sts left on each knitting needle, cut the yarn, pull it through the left sts, tighten and take out to the wrong side, fasten off.