home-knit

He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses — no, he only had one.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

To facilitate which inspection, the speaker conscientiously drew up his corduroys, so as fully to display a pair of home-knit socks, which certainly had wofully deteriorated from the condition ascribed to them "yis'day mornin '."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Silas Chamberlain stood beside the stove with his old cap and his home-knit mittens under his arm, while he leaned over the welcome fire.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

Her dress had no fashionable trail, but showed her low prunella shoes and white, home-knit stockings.

The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls Various

The men dressed in homespun and blue jeans, the women all with full-bordered cape bonnets and home-knit woolen mitts.

The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900 Various

Keene in the little parlor upstairs, whither Mistress McVeigh had gone to complete a batch of home-knit socks for her son, Cornelius, who lived in Chicago.

Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

Thick, home-knit stockings, and a pair of stiff cow-hide shoes completed the costume, and made Microby Dandeline the center of an admiring semi-circle of Wattses.

The Gold Girl 1921

To ensure warmth he generally wears underneath these a thick pair of home-knit socks of ordinary length.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

In winter they had woollen, in summer cotton foot-gear, home-knit by wives or aunts or daughters.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

This is Christmas with the varnish off -- Christmas described in remembrance of home-knit socks that didn't fit; inevitable indigestion; wet fingers that plastered pink candy; useful donations that weren't useful; and the same old snowbird on the same old white card.

Idle Comments 1905