Monday, September 11, 2006

snowman

This christmas stocking turned out really nice. Many years ago I attempted to knit with multiple colors and the piece puckered all over the place.

Pattern: snowman sock, red oak designs

Yarn: Frog Tree Alpaca Sport Wt, red, green, off white, gray #009, orange #20, black

Needles: US3 and US4 straight

Specs: I followed the pattern as written even though it called for heavy worsted

3 comments:

Marsha said...

I would really love to knit Christmas stockings, but I'm not sure how to start. Are they just giant socks with interesting pictures on them?

JD said...

Nice stockings! That reminds me: oh, the holiday knits!

Beth said...

Yes, Marsha, Christmas stockings are basically giant socks. However, all other socks I've knit on circular needles. This stocking I was knitting intarsia (blocks of color - using bobbins), so I knit it on straight needles.