These are some stockings I made 2-3 years ago. We have an older set my aunt crocheted with our initials on them that we’ve used for years, but as my sister and I got older I thought it might be nice if we had a family set that with stockings my sister and I could take with us when we moved away. I found this cute christmas tree pattern online at Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tenenbaum-stocking) and convinced my family to troup over with me to the local Hobby Lobby to look at yarn.
Everone found a yarn pairing that they liked – I chose dark blue with a white and colored speckled yarn to mimic christmas lights for mine. After we all had the yarn we liked I trecked home and started getting to work on making the stockings.
It took somewhere between two-three weeks to get them all made. The good thing was that the stocking pattern was pretty simple, so long as you stuck to the pattern provided you didn’t have to worry about how the pattern would look. It was interesting when I reached the heel on the stocking, mostly because I had never made a heel before, but after a little trial and error where I second guessed what I was supposed to be doing and then realized I was over thinking things, they turned out alright.
I was nervous in how they were going to turn out in part because I was worried about how tight the stocking was going to be, then had to remind myself that all it needed to do was hold together. No one was going to be wearing the stockings as they are more or less a functional decoration.
I will say that our knit stockings have more give to them than our old ones did, the difference between crochet and knitting is really apparent when we use them. Not that it’s a bad thing to have a Christmas stocking that stretches to hold more stuff!
