This pattern is for 2 Holiday stocking designs: Striped and Solid with pompoms.

This is a fast and easy to knit stocking pattern. I love using unconventional holiday colors mingled with the more traditional red and green ☺ Make all the variations dress up your home this holiday season!

One of my first knitting projects as a young knitter in the 1980s was to knit up personalized Christmas stockings for my family. Marriages and births required another stocking, while a divorce demanded I retire or frog the ex’s. Recently, those stockings were looking a bit fray and begged to be permanently retired.

I developed this pattern using our 30+ year-old ones as inspiration. I reworked color stories, and utilized a traditional, top down sock pattern. I removed the personalized knit in names, and replaced them with manila tags that could be personalized ad hoc depending on who we are hosting for the holiday season.

Uses 2 skeins of Lamb’s Pride Bulky by Brown Sheep (85% wool 15% mohair; approx. 125 yds per 4 oz skein).