A word on decoration stockings: If you stuff them with paper, stuff them lumpy like they got candy in them, not realistic like they still have a limb in them. CREEPY.

Knitting the commissioned one got me into the mood. Now I’m making one for myself - but NOT in Fair Isle. I’m alternating the Christmas colours red and green with off-white in different patterns using knit/purl and knobs.

Then I embroidered Christmas trees, candles and pine twigs on the off-white parts, added some red bows, beads and “red berries” to the holly patterned part and stuffed the whole thing with crumpled paper so it looked like a dead leg.