Making my mom a copy of the stocking my grandma knit my dad in the 50s. Intarsia is CRAZY BUSINESS.

I am knitting an exact copy so do not even talk to me about Santa’s crazy, crazy eye.

Although I totally cannot deal with it at all.

Christmas eye.

tubular co 60, decrease 2sts/row 5x over green stripe, join in round at top of heel.

stripe widths from top: 10 red (ribbing), 18 white, then transition green, 7 rows of green before santa head, 11 rows of green after santa head, 17 rows of white before starting heel flap, 10 rows of white after heel flap, 15 rows red, 4 rows of green before starting toe decreases.

I did my mom’s in real intarsia, then chickened out and am doing the rest of the stockings in duplicate stitch. Life is too short to screw around with that many bobbins.