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.]

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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