Midnight Snowfall Stockings by Dawn Brocco

Midnight Snowfall Stockings

Knitting
May 2024
Aran (8 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
US 10 - 6.0 mm
US 10½ - 6.5 mm
190 - 225 yards (174 - 206 m)
small / large
English
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About The Design:
We don’t live in an area that gets much snow, but I love snow! These holiday stockings are festive and wintry, without being overly Christmasy. They will bring the delight of a winter night’s snowfall into your home to enjoy, even if you too don’t get to see snow.

The drama of light stitches on a dark background is enhanced by a third color duplicate stitched on afterward, which makes the snowflakes twinkle! There is also a light background option, with dark duplicate stitches.

The pattern offers two sizes each in two yarn weights. Knit in Lamb’s Pride Worsted and Bulky along with Nature Spun Worsted, held single for the worsted stockings, and doubled, for the bulky stockings.

Design details include: corrugated ribbing, applied I-cord edging with a hanging loop, allover stranded pattern, duplicate stitching in a 3rd color, wrap and turn short row heels, and rounded toe shaping.

Start them now, and they’ll be done long before Christmas, to hang from your mantel, or string up and hang on your staircase!

Sizes: Worsted (bulky)
smaller / larger (smaller / larger)

Finished Dimensions:
Leg and Foot Circs: 9 / 11.5 (9.5 / 12)”

Length Heel to Cuff Edge: 10.5 / 13 (11 / 13.5)”
Length Heel to Toe: 10 / 10.5 (10 / 11.5)”

Materials:
Worsted – Small: Lamb’s Pride Worsted, 85% wool/15% mohair, approx 190 yds./4 oz., 1 skein each: M10 Cream (MC), M82 Blue Flannel (B), and Nature Spun Worsted, 100% wool, 245 yds./100 gr, 1 skein #115 Bit of Blue (A).

Size 6 (4 mm) and 7 (4.5 mm) dpns

Spare size 7 ckn or straight ndls (to work the heel)

Worsted – Large: Lamb’s Pride Worsted, 1 skein each: M82 Blue Flannel (MC), M10 Cream (A), and Nature Spun Worsted, 1 skein #115 Bit of Blue (B).


16” US size 6 (4 mm) and 7 (4.5 mm) ckns
Size 7 (4.5 mm) dpns

Spare size 7 ckn or straight ndls (to work the heel)

Bulky – Small: Lamb’s Pride Bulky, 85% wool/15% mohair, approx 125 yds./4 oz., 1 skein each: M82 Blue Flannel (MC), M10 Cream (A), and Nature Spun Worsted, 1 skein #115 Bit of Blue (B) (held double).

US size 10 (6 mm) and 10.5 (6.5 mm) dpns

Spare size 10.5 ckn or straight ndls (to work the heel)

Bulky – Large: Lamb’s Pride Bulky, 1 skein each: M10 Cream (MC), M82 Blue Flannel (B), and Nature Spun Worsted, 1 skein #115 Bit of Blue (A) (held double).


16” US size 10 (6 mm) and 10.5 (6.5 mm) ckns

Size 10.5 dpns

Spare size 10.5 ckn or straight ndls (to work the heel)

Tapestry ndl, stitch holders or waste yarn, rnd marker

Substitute Yarn Weight: Heavy Worsted (Bulky)

Gauge: 20 sts & 28 rows = 4” in St st with size 7 ndls, and 14 sts & 19 rows = 4” in St st with size 10.5 ndls. To save time, take time to check gauge.

Notes:
1. One skein of each color is enough to make one smaller and one larger stocking.

  1. The stockings are knit from the cuff to the toe, with a wrap and turn short row heel.

  2. The short row heels are in text and charted form. The color patt is charted only.

Happy Knitting!
Dawn