Small Christmas stockings for 2014

This is incredibly early for most people, but I've been at it for weeks:

Hoping to all the same patterns in all the different colours:

It's going to take awhile, but it's lots of fun and they're quick to do (about 4 hours each). Check out my Etsy Shop where I'll be listing them over the next few months. 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! It's sad that the busy Etsy Christmas time is over, but I'm looking forward to doing some other projects in the new year. Meanwhile I've been knitting a few more stockings for next year while staying with my parents for the holidays. The background is great, I wish I had nice outside background in Dublin. There's no snow, but the frosty ground and the wind still air are also great for the photos:

Snowflake knitted stocking

Dog knitted stocking

Snowmen knitted stocking

 Next will be a cat stocking and I'll probably be out of turquoise. But 4 is a good number. 

Then I had some time and made a video of me knitting:

The stockings will be for sale in my Etsy shop next year: Gigi82Knits

Angel Stocking

I finished these stockings recently:

The angel motif is new, it's quite big, but I like it. I'm going to knit it on a 2 colour stocking soon, red or blue with white. 

I'm going to publish my pattern soon, it's my plan for the next few weeks. It's  a lot of work, though. Lots of writing and re-writing and photographing and oh no, forgot a needle, have to photograph again... 

There will be just 2 more stockings shipped this year and that's it then. 

I might do a best-of 2013 stockings post or video, I think that would be fun. There were lots of stockings this year. I actually know exactly how many, I keep a spreadsheet ;) 

Happy Holidays

Now taking orders for 2014

Christmas stockings

Another set is finished. 

Pure wool Christmas stockings set of 3

I have knitted a set of 3 stockings in pure wool (Donegal Tweed), so pretty!

Pure Wool Stockings

I'm very happy with how they turned out. They're huge, about 9" wide. They have to be that wide to accommodate the names, so this will probably be something I'll do more of next year. 

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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.

Now taking orders for 2014: Gigi82knits on Etsy

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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