The Jolly Holiday Stocking is the perfect way to add a handmade touch to your Christmas celebrations. Designed with thoughtful details and easy-to-master techniques, this stocking features slip stitch colorwork on the foot and leg for a beautifully textured design. It’s knit toe-up and can be customized with your favorite colors to match your holiday decor.

This stocking works up quickly, thanks to the bulky gauge created by holding two strands of worsted weight yarn together. Whether you’re making one for each family member or creating a single show-stopping centerpiece for your mantle, the Jolly Holiday Stocking is sure to bring joy to your home this season.

Skills
Knit

Knitting in the Round

Purl

Slip

Sizing
One Size

Finished Measurements
6x15.5” / 15x39cm

Gauge
16 stitches and 19 rows over 4”/10cm in garter stitch, blocked

Materials
Yarn
Malabrigo Merino Worsted held double:
Main Color: 1 skein in Forest, 90g, 185 yards
Contrast Color: 1 skein in Watergreen, 45g, 90 yards

Needles
US 11 (8mm) or size needed to obtain gauge. 40” circular needles or your preferred needle configuration for working a 4-12” circumference in the round.