Well, here’s the finished Christmas stocking, finally. I started it about two months ago, but I really got going on it this week to get it done. I have two more to do before Christmas.
It’s done in Cascade 220, and the pictures, name, and date are done in duplicate stitch. Santa’s beard is the most wonderful, fuzzy angora. Anyway, just thought I’d post. This isn’t the first one of these that I’ve made, but it is the first for several years. :woot:
(I stuffed it with plastic bags to take the picture, so that’s why it’s lumpy.)
My aunt made these stockings for my siblings and me, and her children as well, when we were little, and I actually learned to knit so I could make one for my nephew. So, this stocking is kind of like a family tradition.
Thats great! I love the backstory too, such a wonderful family tradition, and the fact that you learned to knit so you could make one for your dn is awesome! :woohoo:
:yay: :yay: You did a beautiful job on your stocking!!! My grandma made stockings but is not to fragile to make them. So I think I will pick up her tradition and carry on… This inspired me! Thank you for posting the pictures:thumbsup:
Mary
that is just like the stockings my mom made us when we were small. Knit stockings are the best because they stretch and stretch to hold all the goodies!!!
So true! They really do. I well remember my mom stuffing ours to the brim when we were little. (Well, she still does. lol). They were always lumpy and misshapen, but chock full of goodies.
That is so cool! My aunt made me a christmas stocking when I was born, and whenever we marry she gives one to our significant other. She was late making my husband his, and he got on her case the whole next year just to make sure it was going to be done on time for this christmas!
Thanks. I did use a pattern…I don’t think there’s any way I could have do that without one. I’m not that good. lol. It’s the same pattern my aunt used for ours back in the 1970s. She gave it to me all hand-written and faded and I had to go through it and type it just so I could read it. Once I got all that done, though, it’s actually a quite simple pattern. The only difficult part is the intarsia at the top - it’s just hard to keep all the yarn straight. hehe. I have one other one done except for the embroidery and seaming and one more to make before Christmas. Here’s to hoping. hehe. Knitted stockings are so nice, though. Like somebody else said, you can just stuff them and stuff them full.
I did use a pattern…I don’t think there’s any way I could have do that without one. I’m not that good. lol. It’s the same pattern my aunt used for ours back in the 1970s. She gave it to me all hand-written and faded and I had to go through it and type it just so I could read it. Once I got all that done, though, it’s actually a quite simple pattern. The only difficult part is the intarsia at the top - it’s just hard to keep all the yarn straight. hehe. I have one other one done except for the embroidery and seaming and one more to make before Christmas. Here’s to hoping. hehe. Knitted stockings are so nice, though. Like somebody else said, you can just stuff them and stuff them full. 