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December 5: Christmas Stockings

05 Dec 2024

The holiday season becomes much more special with handmade stockings hanging from the mantle.

Download the Striped Christmas Stockings pattern, and shop Rowan's Pure Wool Superwash Worsted today!

The patterns from our Sock Box kits are now available as individual downloads: Pilsner Pleat, Helix Stripes, Irish Cables, and Basic Socks are available on Ravelry along with mom's original Basic Sock booklet.

One lucky winner will receive a copy of Mom’s Basic Socks pattern, which accommodates multiple gauges and sizes, with detailed instructions on how to knit a sock. Additionally, we will include the patterns from all four of our Sock Box kits, with detailed photo instructions and focusing on different heel and toe techniques, along with pretty stitch markers and a project bag. Watch the video to learn how you can enter for a chance to win!

Yay Mary Weeter! You're the lucky winner.

Comments

07 Dec 2024

Melissa

Oh, I am sorry to have missed this! Miss Mary, enjoy your prize! I have been so busy that I have missed too many days! I'm back and determined to keep up with this fun tradition.

06 Dec 2024

Autumn Hansen

My mom crocheted, she never knew how to knit. Our stockings as kids were always the cheap store-bought kind with our name in glitter. Ever since I learned to knit properly, thank you Jeanie, and I completed my first socks a few months ago, I have wanted to make homemade Christmas stockings to proudly display and pass down to our grandchildren.

06 Dec 2024

Jill Fant

No handmade stockings at my house. Maybe some day. It would be nice to make them for my grown kids and spouses. Thx for sharing your pattern.

06 Dec 2024

Kelly R

My childhood stocking was a gift from one of my mother's friends. It isn't knitted, but was done with needlepoint. I still treasure the thoughtful gift! I would love to learn to knit some day!

06 Dec 2024

Joan Ferrell

We had/have some needlepoint(?) stockings that I ordered decades ago from the Lillian Vernon catalog. I believe that company is now bankrupt and out of business? At any rate, they are still in use but with new family members since that time it would be great if I could knit some treasured heirlooms. These patterns look great!

06 Dec 2024

Tammie Hulsey

I've never had a knitted stocking. I would love to make stockings that become a yearly tradition for the family. We just have some plain store bought ones.

06 Dec 2024

Barbi

I love the knitted Christmas stockings. We did not have stocking to hang up when I was a kid and mine all enjoyed store bought ones as have then grandchildren. I have two new great granddaughters who definitely will be getting hand knitted Christmas stockings from me, and I love the patterns.

06 Dec 2024

Courtney

My mom needlepointed stockings for my brother & I. We still love them so much. Sherry taught me to knit socks even though I didn’t know how to knit. I will always remember how much fun I had and what I learned from Sherry. Memories I will always cherish.

06 Dec 2024

Judy satterfield

Always had Christmas stockings when I was growing up and had them for my sons. My grandchildren have stockings picked out by their Mothers and filled with all kinds of goodies.

06 Dec 2024

Lesley Rodgers

I have never Knitted a sock, so it would be a challenge which I want to try.

06 Dec 2024

Marilee Camerer

My sons have hand knit stockings we got from their babysitter when they were babies. I still hang them up every year.

06 Dec 2024

Nyree

I’m the first knitter in my family so we never had hand knitted stockings. I have long dreamt of hand knitted stockings with the name on each one. I just have never gotten around to making them.

06 Dec 2024

Gwen L

No hand knit stockings ever. In fact never had a Christmas sock growing up. As picky as I am about socks you think I would jump on the sock bandwagon. I love wool socks….there the absolute best. Thx for the pattern. Maybe it’s the motivation I need to try a sock.

06 Dec 2024

Debbie Hersh

I have never had hand knit stockings and just last week, I decided that I am going to make some my boys and me, even though they are grown. I won't have time to get them done this year, but definitely by this time next year. Thank you for the pattern!

05 Dec 2024

Phyllis Lee Murphy

Unfortunately I do not have any hand knit stockings. I do have some handmade cotton and bead stockings made by a sweet teacher that I worked with.

05 Dec 2024

Joy W

I mentioned the stockings we had as a kid in another day. They were not handmade but certainly unique! On the diy front, one Christmas I walked in to our family party, and my sister immediately handed me a bag. It contained a ball of yarn and a set of needles with exactly two rows of garter stitch hanging off them. "Finish this scarf for me," she demanded. I agreed, but it certainly wasn't too priority on my list of projects. I should have offered to continue the lesson, rather than doing it myself.

05 Dec 2024

Ana Johnson

I’ve never knitted Christmas stockings, or socks. But it’s something I would love to learn. However, I still have a sticking made out of felt I made when I was 5 years old!

05 Dec 2024

Dawn K

I crocheted Christmas stockings our first married Christmas 45 years ago they aren't fancy but they are ours. When the babies came along Grammy took care of their home made stockings.

05 Dec 2024

Shawndalynn Wilkinson

I have never had a hand knit stocking. I am afraid one year I had one I made at school from felt and hot glue.

05 Dec 2024

Linda W.

I don't wish to participate in the drawing, just wanted to share that I have two handmade stockings that, though neither is knitted, are precious to me. One was made by my mom; it's pastel candlewicking on muslin, with lace trim at the top. The other is hand-quilted poinsettia fabric with a Christmas star, and was made by my best friend's mom. Both our moms have passed, so these stockings are beautiful connections to their creativity and generous spirits.

05 Dec 2024

Jennifer Elkhair

Thank you for sharing the pattern. I am currently working on new stockings right now! When I was a kid my mom made us all granny square stockings.

05 Dec 2024

Kathy

No knitted stockings here! We do have quilted ones that I made along the way.

I’ve made socks a couple of times but not my love lol but could be willing to try a stocking from this pattern

05 Dec 2024

Elizabeth Hall

No knitted stockings here. When I married my husband we adopted his family tradition of baskets instead of stockings. I wove two matching baskets for us to use, along with one for the dog.

05 Dec 2024

Ellen McKenzie

for years I have had grand thoughts of knitting Christmas stockings however, other projects always seem to pop up…maybe this is the year!

05 Dec 2024

Melissa S

I have two handmade stockings, one for my husband and one for me. They were made from quilted material and one is a buck and one is a doe.

05 Dec 2024

Stephenia

No handmade stockings at my house. Every December I think how nice they would look, then somehow the month flies by and still no stockings.

05 Dec 2024

Beth S

I still have my original felt stocking made by my mom from a kit of two stockings. I got the beautiful doll stocking and my little sister got the toy soldier one. I have struggled trying to knit socks in the past. After looking at your pattern for a stocking, I thought that might be a good 'first sock' pattern for me to try with thicker yarn and no pesky second sock.

05 Dec 2024

Judy Smith

I received some handmade stockings from a german college student. I loved them so much, I decided to learn to knit. I went to a knit show and found a CD with instructions for how to knit stockings and I was off on my knitting adventure. I have many pair of hand knit socks.

I am into knitting tops and sweaters now, however, I like to take socks to knit on trips.

When I first moved to Oklahoma, when people found out I knitted socks, they always asked for me to knit them a pair, I did, if they made something I wanted in trade. Now, I generally only knit for myself and sometimes I will do gift knitting.

05 Dec 2024

Amy Biehl

As a child I treasured the needlepoint stockings made by my grandmother that hung under the twinkle lights on the fireplace. Some of my favorite memories of Christmas time. Love these stocking ideas and patterns updated with today’s yarns and colors. What a treasure

05 Dec 2024

Tabitha H

Sadly, no heirloom knitted stockings in my family. I do have my original bear stocking from when I was a kid, and I still use it! I'm not saying though how long I've been using it!

05 Dec 2024

Mary Weeter

I have my old Christmas stocking my Mom made but I don’t use it any more. I found needlework stockings for my family. I would love to knit stocking for my Grandaughters so this kit would be a great way to get started!

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