Ever wonder where those great ideas for knitting patterns came from? The art of intertwining yarn to produce knitted fabric is based on only two stitches, the knit and the purl, the obverse and reverse of one another. Amazing how many pattern variations from knitting these two stitches have been created. The earliest known knitters are the ones who knitted the socks found in Egyptian tombs. (We don't have that pattern available.) Socks and stockings were the hot items for centuries--1500's through the 1800's.