Knit An Easy Christmas Stocking! Here is an easy stocking worked flat in one color! Materials: • 2 ounces of worsted weight yarn • size 6 circular needle (The length doesn't matter on this project. I'm using a 16” length.) • yarn needle • scissors These last 2 items you probably carry in your knitting bag already. Gauge: 19 stitches and 26 rows = 4” Finished Size: 7.5” circumference and 12” length Designs By Ava Lynne Green www.terrisyarnsandcrafts.com 927 Dolly Parton Parkway, Sevierville, Tn 37862 Skill Level: advanced beginner Abbreviations: k: knit p: purl K2tog: Knit the next 2 stitches together. This makes a decrease that slants to the right. SKP: Slip the next stitch from the left needle to the right. Knit the following stitch then pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch and off the right needle. This makes a decrease that slants to the left. Instructions: Cast on 38 stitches. Top: R1: Slip the first st, *k1, p1, repeat from the * up to the last stitch, p1. Repeat row 1 five times. Work in stockinette stitch (knit one row, purl the next) for 6” from the bottom of the ribbing. Heel: Slip 1, k9, bring the yarn to the front of the work, slip the next st from the left to the right needle. Move the yarn to the back of the work, slip the st back to the left needle and turn the needles around. The stitch at the tip of the right needle has not been worked. It instead has yarn wrapped around it. Purl to the end of the row. In this case that is 10 stitches. This is called a wrap and turn and is necessary to prevent holes in your stocking. The 10 stitches now have an extra 2 rows. You can see a wedge beginning to form for one half of the heel. Repeat the short row shaping by working one less stitch on each knit row and purling to the end. When you have purled just 1 stitch, turn and knit across the entire row. As you come to a wrapped stitch, pull the wrap onto the left needle and knit it together through the back loop. To work the second half of the heel, slip 1, p9, move the yarn to the back. Slip the next st to the right needle. Move the yarn to the front, slip the st back to the left needle and turn the needles around. Knit to the end of the row. Continue as you did for the other side, just starting your wrap and turn on the purl side. When you get all of the stitches worked, turn and purl across the row, working the wraps along with the stitches. Whew! That's a lot to take in. Learning to do short rows is a good technique to know, though. It can be used to make circles, and doing the shaping of shoulders on a sweater. Now to continue our stocking. Foot: Make sure you have 38 stitches on the needle. Work stockinette stitch for 4” from the heel. Toe: Row 1: Slip 1, *k6, k2tog, k2, skp, k12, k2tog, k2, skp, k7 – 34 sts. Row 2: Slip 1, purl across. Repeat rows 1 – 2, working one less stitch before each k2tog and after each skp until there are 26 stitches left. End with a purl row. Bind off. Seam the back and foot edges together. Fold the toe so that the top and bottom of the stocking meet and seam the toe. Designs By Ava Lynne Green www.terrisyarnsandcrafts.com 927 Dolly Parton Parkway, Sevierville, Tn 37862