Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns

I’m not quite ready to think about Christmas knitting, but if you want to make stockings it’s a good time to start. Here are a few fun patterns to get you started thinking about fresh stockings for the holidays.

This knitting pattern collection of stranded knitting designs from Santa’s Sock Central reminds me of the stockings my grandma (and now my mom) knit for the kids in our family. There are lots of different options for making personalized stockings including snowflakes, santas, trees and more.

These cute striped stockings have an elf-like twist and a space for a name at the top. You can get the pattern from Fiddlestyx Studios.

Classic Santas and Fair Isle style motifs decorate these stockings from Annie’s Woolens. It’s worked in the round and uses charts so it’s perfect for intermediate knitters (as are most of these).

This Christmas stocking with a red truck carrying a Christmas tree is super cute for a country Christmas. The pattern is from Kathleens Keepsakes.

Jean Ann Designs has a great fisherman sweater-inspired stocking covered with cables. It’s worked in bulky yarn so it should be a pretty fast project, too.

Another great quick knit that’s even better for newer knitters is the Jumbo Christmas stocking from Prinku. It has options that are worked solid or in different stripe patterns depending on what yarn you have available or what style you prefer. And they are really big at 25 inches long for big drama on Christmas morning.

[Photos via Etsy.]

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Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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