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Eva’s stocking (and contents)

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Barb | Comments (1)
Filed under : Felting, Finished Objects, Gifts & Holidays, Knitting

Here's the stocking, and the projects alluded to earlier as getting finished up like crazy.

Felted stocking for Eva, with Harry Bear (pattern free from Berroco) and earflap cap with matching mittens (photos of both below).

First the stocking. Felted, a little fair isle, a little intarsia, nothing too ambitious but I’m pleased with the result.

I knitted the stocking using Cascade 220 (single strand) and size 11 needles, using just a basic sock pattern for proportions.

(A note about the intarsia section: When I came to the tree section, I put the stitches involved in the intarsia on a straight needle, leaving the rest on a circular. I worked the tree rows, left them on a holder, worked back and forth on the stitches on the circular needle until I had the same length as the tree panel, then put all the stitches back on the circular needle and continued in the round. When I was all done, I just stitched the panel in place and the seams disappear completely in the felting.)

(Oh, and just for the sake of documentation in case I ever want to make another, I did an afterthought heel.)

I took some photos along the way because the shrinkage during felting always seems like such a guessing game. So I wanted to record just exactly what happened.

Measurements before felting: 28" long x 10" wide at ankle
Measurements after felting: 20" long x 7.25" wide at ankle

And stuffed inside a fluffy white Harry Bear, about 7 inches or so long,

and snowflake cap and mittens set.

Whew! Best Christmas ever!

1 Comments

What a lucky girl! She has two hand-made Christmas stockings already and she's not even a year old yet.

Your knitted gifts for Eva were fantastic. She loves the bear and looks ridiculously cute in the hat and mittens (the cord for the mittens fits perfectly in her coat, by the way).

Best Christmas ever, indeed.

- said andrea (12/28/2009, 10:22 AM)