Woodland Stockings: Tiny Creatures

WOODLAND STOCKINGS: TINY CREATURES

Adorned with whimsical forest creatures and frosty winter scenes, these heirloom-quality stockings are bound to provide beautiful holiday cheer for years to come. This pattern includes four different designs—snail, moth, hedgehog, and mouse—so you can knit them all!

The Woodland Stockings: Tiny Creatures are knit from the top down, starting with a diagonal-textured cuff. This design uses two colors of worsted-weight yarn and stranded colorwork knitting to create the forest creatures and scenes. Inverse versions of all the colorwork charts are included. Each colorwork design is charted for both sides of the stocking. The stocking charts contain mirror images so the animals look great viewed from either side. The mock short-row heel and i-cord loop for hanging will make the Woodland Stockings: Tiny Creatures a polished addition to any mantel.

This standalone pattern is the companion to the original Woodland Stockings pattern and the Woodland Stockings: Big Animals pattern, which each feature four different animal designs as well as variations in the cuff and snowflake design. The Woodland Stocking patterns blend harmoniously, so that you can knit each pattern independently or mix charts and cuffs to create the perfect stockings for you and your loved ones.

YARN (FOR ONE STOCKING)

MC: approx 150 yds / 140 m of worsted-weight yarn

CC: approx 210 yds / 190 m of worsted-weight yarn

Samples are knit in Barrett Wool Co. Wisconsin Woolen Spun Worsted  (100% American wool; 250 yds / 228 m per 100g skein). For four stockings, CC (white): Birch – 4 skeins, MC (red): Jam – 2 skeins, MC (green): Laurel – 2 skeins

NEEDLES AND NOTIONS

US Size 6 (4 mm) 12” circular needle OR size needed to achieve gauge

US Size 6 (4 mm) DPNs OR size needed to achieve gauge

3 stitch markers (including one unique for beginning of round), scrap yarn, tapestry needle

GAUGE

21 sts & 24 rounds = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette worked in the round and colorwork chart, after blocking 

SIZE

Finished circumference (unstretched): 13” / 33 cm

Cuff length: 2” / 5 cm

Top of cuff to bottom of heel: 14.5” / 37 cm

Heel to toe length: 11.5” / 29 cm