Lots of stockings knitted

I've been very busy in the last few weeks, lots of stockings to knit. Next year I need more ready to ship ones. But here are a few that were finished this month:

I had to try out the cat pattern on another stocking, together with grey and turquoise, looks very modern. Black cats are the best!















The only difference was supposed to be the contrast colour, so I added more of the contrast colour, that turned out nicely.

I might make heels always in contrast colours now, I like it.

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Christmas stockings just finished

A few more stockings were finished recently:




For this pair I used the contrast colour more so that the two would be more different. This was a very nice project, also introduced the contrast colour heel. 

This one is very wide, "Clementine" is a long name, so I made it a little shorter. 

I'm flattered so many people wanted the brown-red design, it was invented thanks to my mother (I would have gone for blue instead of red). 

For this one I knitted two rows of animals "walking", I usually don't do this, but the bears are small and it worked with the stitches available until I had to start the heel. 

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Another grey one, next year I will focus on the grey ones a bit more, they're so elegant and the colour combination possibilities are endless...







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Grey penguin stocking

I finished another stocking, this one is for a new baby and will match 3 others I knitted two years ago. In my more recent stockings I'm doing the cast on differently, the heel is smaller and the stockings are a little longer. I improvised a little, I know my knitting got tighter since I started knitting stockings, so I added a few more stitches to this stocking, to match the earlier, bigger ones.

These colours are gorgeous! I can't wait to knit a stocking like this again, if I don't get any orders I shall knit one with "Merry Xmas" on it. 

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Cat Christmas stockings knitted!

Happy Times! Finally, after 2.5 years of knitting stockings I got a custom order request for a cat stocking. Who loves cats? I do! So I wanted it to be really really good. 

First I came up with three possible cats for the stockings: 

Customer chose sitting up cat, so I went from there:

First one was too big:

Then I turned it facing the other way and made it smaller while trying to keep the cat's perky position of elegant cuteness:

And success! The cat turned out lovely and I hope I'll get lots more orders so I can knit more:

 Here's my mother's cat, unfortunately no longer with us:

Wool Christmas stockings knitted

Here's my latest stocking. This time it's pure wool, a brand called Donegal Tweed, I love the speckled look of it:

 I hope to be able to offer the choice of pure wool stockings soon, haven't quite figured out the size of them. 

I think I'll have to go bigger, so the names will fit. 

Of course, that will mean it takes longer to knit them. 









Detailed view:

All three together:

For sale in my Etsy shop. All three are one of a kind and if I sell them and decide to knit more, they will be similar, but not the same. 

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Merry Xmas Stocking

Last year I made a red and white Christmas stockings with "Merry Xmas" knitted on it. It sold pretty quickly in my Etsy shop, the only "Merry Xmas" stocking I sold, I think. I've been making a few more, they're nice for trying out colors, and I've been listing them as I made them. But strangely, the most views are still coming to the old one that was sold, from Pinterest! So I decided to re-knit the red one, of course, it's not exactly the same because that would be boring...

So the 2012-version:



















And the 2013-version:

Merry Xmas knitted Christmas stocking with reindeer

For sale now in my Etsy shop, only one available. If I make it again next year, it will again be different! 
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Which one do you prefer? 

Fair Isle Christmas stockings knitted with 3 colours

Another set is finished, again with 3 colours, this time mostly white backgrounds: