PLEASE NOTE: I have reproduced the original pattern instructions word-for-word here. However, the stocking “pak” referred to is no longer available. You will need to find substitute yarn to make this stocking. Some tips on finding the yarn and following the pattern can be found here.
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This pak contains 3 ounces of Bernat Knitting Worsted Yarn, 100% Virgin Wool Worsted, sufficient to make one Christmas Stocking in design as illustrated and charted. The pak also contains sufficient ribbon, beads, sequins, stars and bells to decorate the stocking as indicated on design and charts.
MATERIALS
1 set d p needles No. 6
Bobbins
GAUGE: 5 sts — 1 inch; 7 rows — 1 inch
ABBREVIATIONS
K . . . knit
P . . . purl
tog . . . together
st(s) . . . stitch(es)
psso . . . pass slip st over knit st
d p . . . double point
sl . . . slip
NOTES
Please read carefully before starting work.
NOTE 1: Be sure to check your stitch gauge. If you do not obtain the correct gauge with the size needles suggested, change to a larger or smaller size as your knitting requires. The IMPORTANT THING to remember is that the size needles used does not matter, as long as your stitch gauge is correct.
NOTE 2: Be sure to work the colors exactly as designated in the chart, as there is sufficient yarn for your stocking, if the chart is followed carefully.
NOTE 3: When changing colors, always hold the color which has just been worked to the left and pick up the new color from underneath. This twists colors, so there are no holes.
NOTE 4: Use a separate bobbin for each color change, except where the color is used again after one or two stitches of another color. In these cases the color may be carried loosely across the back of work.
NOTE 5: To personalize this stocking, work desired name in first White stripe. Using the alphabet chart as a guide, block in name on chart before starting work.
DIRECTIONS
Using two d p needles and Green, cast on 60 sts. K 2, P 2 in ribbing for 8 rows. Join White and following chart, work in stockinette for 20 rows. Continue to follow chart, changing colors where indicated and working even until 42 rows of chart have been completed. On the next row dec 1 st each end of needle and repeat this dec every 12th row 3 times more. Work even on 52 sts until 84 rows of chart are completed.
INSTEP: Following chart, K 39 sts, sl last 13 sts on a holder. Turn and P 26 sts and sl remaining 13 sts on another holder. Continue to work in stockinette st on 26 sts of instep until chart is completed. Sl these 26 sts on a holder. Sl 13 sts of each side of heel onto one needle so that outer edges of sock are joined at centre of heel.
HEEL: With right side facing you, join White and work in stockinette st on 26 sts for 13 rows.
TURN HEEL: P 15, P 2 tog, P 1, turn; sl 1, K 5, sl 1, K 1, psso, K 1, turn; sl 1, P 6, P 2 tog, P 1, turn; sl 1, K 7, sl 1, K 1, psso, K1, turn; sl 1, P 8, P 2 tog, P 1, turn. Continue in this manner, working 1 st more each time, until all sts have been worked, ending with a K row — 16 sts. Break off yarn. Join yarn to top right side of heel piece. Pick up and K 12 sts along side of heel piece; K across 16 sts of heel; pick up and K 12 sts along other side of heel piece — 40 sts.
SHAPE HEEL GUSSET: Row 1: Purl. Row 2: K1, sl 1, K 1, psso. K to last 3 sts, K 2 tog, K 1. Repeat these 2 rows until there are 26 sts on needle, ending with a K row.
FOOT: Sl last 13 sts just worked from heel needle onto first needle; on second needle K across instep sts; on third needle K remaining 13 sts. Centre of heel is now at the beg of each round. Join Red and K round and round for 16 rounds. Join Green and K 8 rounds.
SHAPE TOE: Round 1: On first needle K to last 3 sts, K 2 tog, K 1; on second needle K 1, sl 1, K 1, psso, K to last 3 sts, K 2 tog, K 1; on third needle K 1, sl 1, K 1, psso, K to end of round. Round 2: Knit. Repeat these 2 rounds until there are 3 sts on each heel needle, ending with first needle. Put all heel sts onto one needle. Break off yarn, leaving a 12 inch end. Weave heel and instep sts tog.
TO WEAVE STITCHES: Thread yarn in tapestry needle and hold the two d p needles tog, wrong sides touching. *Insert tapestry needle as if to K into first st of front needle, draw yarn through this st and slip off the d p needle; insert tapestry needle as if to P into next st of front needle, draw yarn through this st and let st remain on d p needle; insert tapestry needle as if to P into first st of back needle, draw yarn through this st and slip this st off the d p needle; insert tapestry needle as if to K into next st of back needle, draw yarn through this st and let st remain on needle; repeat from * until all sts have been worked off d p needles. Draw up all sts to same tension as knitted sts. Fasten off.
FINISHING: Block stocking. Sew sequins and stars on trees and beads on wreath at points indicated by circles on chart. To sew on sequins, bring needle through sequin from back of work, put needle through small crystal bead and back through sequin to back of work. Sew ribbon on wreath. Seam back and sides of instep. Using all three colors tog, make a ch 9 inches long for cord. Sew cord at back seam and sew bells on end.
Finding this has made my day. My 84 year old Grandmother has made them for our entire family, I would say close to 60 of them. However her pattern was getting so old she could hardly read it anymore. I am so excited to share this with her!!!
Thank you, Thank you!
All of us have this stocking. my mother made them for each of us, our children and each of our husbands. Her pattern is very crumpled and you can barely read it. I love the tradition.
Marti Bede
Virginia Beach Va
I am so excited! I told my Best Friend I would make a matching stocking for her youngest son. The rest of the fam has the others, but the grandma or great grandma, can’t remember which, is unable to knit any longer!
She is going to be thrilled!
Dear Megan….I see that you made the candle, tree and wreath stocking in 2011…I’m looking for the grid to follow….I, too, have a history with this stocking and would love to get a copy of the grid you need to follow (or if you know where it is on the internet that I can download)…If you have it, please send a copy to me at 795 Trout run Drive, Malvern, PA 19355…it will be very much appreciated since no one in the family can locate a copy…thanks so much…we want to keep the tradition going..any info you can give me will be very much appreciated. Dianne
THANK YOU!! My grandmother also made these for the entire family…and I need to knit one for my new husband. Her over-Xeroxed instructions were no longer legible…so this is fantastic. I cannot wait to give it a shot.
TY TY TY !!!
My Great Aunt Verna made these for all her dear friend’s family and when I married a son she made me the candle stocking. I was the only “in-law” for whom she made a stocking. It hangs from my mantle every Christmas.
I am so thrilled to find this vintage pattern that I am willing to knit you a pair of socks and mail them off as soon as you provide me with you snail mail info…lol
Aunt Verna also made my son a GIANT Christmas sock. when he was born. She gave me the patt and when my daughter was born I made one for her. I have since lost the patt so if you know of such an animal I’d be ever so grateful.
Again, Thank You, most kindly!
Jan
I had to correct my email. In the excitement, I mis-typed.
I made this stocking for my daughter in 1976 and it has been with her in Vermont,California, Rhode Island, New Jersery, Denmark, and now in Baltimore, MD. ,,Every year it returns to me to fill for Christmas and then mailed again…She is now expecting her first child and I was so happy to find this pattern so I can start knitting for my first grandchild and catch up on making one for my son-in-law…..If I remember right the Trees, Candles and Wreaths we stitched on along with the Name….is there a graph or pattern for the overlay of the trees, candles and wreath. If so where do I get the graph…
Looks to me like the verticle scale on the candle chart is off. The directions say to work the first 42 rows, decrease on the 43rd, and every 12th row thereafter over the next 36 rows. The chart shows the decrease occurring every 16th row, which would mean the trees, candles, and wreath are not to scale. I’m not smart enough to figure out how to fix this. Can anybody help me out? My mother made these socks for me, my sibs, our spouses, my cousins, their spouses, their kids, her grandchild (you get the theme here). She died in 2003 before the greats and great grands came along. I’d really like to carry on the tradition, but I can’t find her pattern. You are my only hope, Obi Wan!