The snow has hit the ground in my hometown and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Now that Thanksgiving is over, I can fully turn my attention toward the holidays, bust out the Christmas ornaments and set up the tree. But truth be told, I have been working on adding my own unique touch to this years holiday with knitted stockings!
I absolutely love a traditional pattern so I kept this fairly simple using on the classic white trim and red body. For the names, I just filled in a grid and followed that per stitch.
Material needed:
- White, Red, and Black Yarn, I used acrylic but it isn’t particularly soft
- 5 double pointed knitting needles (less will do but I like having all of them for shaping purposes
This is one contiguous knitted project but I split it into sections for the pattern.
The Cuff
- Cast on 60 with the white yarn
- K1, P1* repeat until end of row
- Repeat until reach 3 inches in length
If you want to add a name using the grid method, begin with the bottom of the name first and work up and the stocking will then turn inward on itself.
The Body
- P the entire row for three rows
- Switch to the red yarn.
- P until reaching the desired length (I did about 10 inches)
The work can be flipped inside out as well to allow for knitting the whole time instead of using a purl stitch
The Foot
Once ready to start the foot, mark the beginning of the row and the center of the row (each side will be 30 stitches).
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, Increase 1 (I1), P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl 4 rows
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl row
- Purl until the last 6 of the front side, I1, P1,I1, P1, I1, P1, I1,P1,I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl until the last 4 of the front side, I1, P1,I1, P1,I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl 2 rows
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl row
- Decrease 1 (D1), purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- Purl row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, P1, I1, purl until the end of the row
- Purl 5 rows
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- Purl row
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- Purl row
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- Purl row
- D1, purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, D1, I1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, D1, I1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- D1, purl until the last 2 of the front side, I1, D1, I1, purl until the last stitch, D1
- Cast Off
The Hanger
For this, I just crocheted a simple strand using four stitches and made the strand long enough to loop around and reattach to the stocking.
I absolutely love this pattern, although I did make mine a tad too long, they are a super fun way of bringing a home knitted project to the holidays!
