Searching for new sock patterns? Try some old ones! Knitting Vintage Socks: New Twists on Classic Patterns adapts sock patterns from the Weldon’s Practical Needlework book series (Interweave Press), a compilation of “newsletters” published more than 100 years ago

Knitting Vintage Socks features: 24 classic patterns updated for today’s knitters with gauges, up-to-date yarns, and twenty-first-century methods and sizes:

• Gentleman's Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern
• Ladies Silk Stockings with Clocks
• Baby’s Bootikins
• Heelless Sleeping Sock
• Evening Stockings for a Young Lady
• Child's French Sock in Citron Pattern

Fascinating household and historic tidbits from the era, along with little-known tips like an unconventional way to shape a heel

Thorough but easy-to-follow patterns and instructions—including a helpful Techniques section

A sturdy spiral binding that makes this book a breeze to bring along

Paper over board, with concealed wire-o, 7 x 9¼, 128 pages, 30+ color photographs, 30+ illustrations, ISBN 1-931499-65-9.

The sock pictured is the Yarrow Ribbed Sock on pg.28-29. It was knit from Classic Merino Sport in the color Sky.