Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Stockings

Here is the full set of stockings as they hung this year. I'll knit the final one sometime before next Christmas. There might be an additional little one for our cat Raven too someday.

This is the first one I made. I found it gorgeous at the time, but now I wish I had used the white for the snowflakes instead, so they would stand out as well as in the other red stocking. I think this one has the nicest proportions and overall shape.

This green one is the most recent addition. I like the contrast to the other two, it breaks up the red a bit. The fourth will be in the green as well.
All of these were knit with a very uneven yarn, so the Fair Isle irregularities are intentional.
Pattern: The Chubby Sock by Lynn Gates
Source: Christmas Stockings, Interweave Press
Needles: US 5, 16" circular and dbl points
Yarn: Adrienne Vittadini Nadia in 804 and 805 (red and white yarn)
mystery white mohair held together with white Nadia
mystery green tweed for background to snowflakes on red stockings
ShiBui Highland Wool Alpaca in Highland Seaweed (main green in green stocking)

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