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It’s All About The Stockings!

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While meandering around the net this morning (couldn’t sleep – again) I found these. Christmas Stocking Place Setters. Aren’t they cute? Love em!

Do I hear another project just waiting to jump on the needles? It’s not like i don’t have a few, hmmm, 6 or 7 (at least) already there. But these are just cute!

And, the kit is available here:

http://www.knitwitts.com/item/Stocking_Place_Settings/5242/p2c40

Here are some Free Christmas Stocking Patterns that I found:

These cute little stockings are called Deer Tracks, and they’re from thumbknitting.com

These 3 are all free patterns from FreePatterns.com 

Trampled by Geese has a really cool sock pattern, with candy cane lace knitted in, here:

http://trampledbygeesepatterns.blogspot.com/2007/12/holiday-house-socks-free-knitting.html

Get your needles out, oiled up and ready to roll!

Comments

  1. Wow! these are so cute and I am going to try the Mini-Mitts & Hat Garland they are adorable and felted 🙂 Thanks for the freat site find!

    Linda ( felting)

  2. thank you! I love,love,love stockings.And I wanted a pattern for place settings. I thought it would just make the table look so inviting.
    thank you for sharing

Have you read?

Knit Little Fish to Use Your Yarn Scraps

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out. 

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs. 

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make. 

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color. 

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash. 

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail). 

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs. 

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]