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Christmas Stocking Tradition
One of my kids’ favorite Christmas traditions revolves around their Christmas stockings. In our house, Santa doesn’t just fill our stockings, he hides them as well. Santa used to do this for me when I was a child as well, though I’m not sure how the tradition originated. However it started, my kids insist on having their stockings hidden each year. Some want their stockings to be easy to find, while others want them well-hidden. Being the agreeable, jolly old elf that he is, Santa takes their preferences into account.
This beautiful Silverthorne Crochet Christmas Stocking is the second of my new Christmas stocking designs. I love its simplicity! It uses a standard double crochet stitch with an occasional textural row of cross-over stitches made from treble and double crochet. It’s simple, and yet, oh, so beautiful!
For more Christmas stocking fun, try my new Vail Crochet Christmas Stocking, Telluride Crochet Christmas Stocking, and Aspen Crochet Christmas Stocking.
If you’re a Colorado native, you’ve probably guessed that I live in Colorado myself. And you’d be right. Not native-born, but native at heart. I’ve named each of these fun Christmas stocking patterns for a mountain town here in Colorado.
I named this stocking for the beautiful mountain valley town in which I would love to live. Silverthorne is just a little over an hour from Denver, but driving up to it, I sigh every time. The mountains, especially when snow-capped, are stunning.
If you’d like another beautiful Christmas project, click here for the Hark the Herald C2C Crochet Afghan.
The Silverthorne Crochet Christmas Stocking
Get ready for Christmas now and crochet the Silverthorne Crochet Christmas Stocking! It only takes 3-4 hours to stitch, so even if you procrastinate your holiday crafting (guilty!) you’ll still have plenty of time to make this after Thanksgiving. Stitch up a whole row of these to hang by your fireplace and then dream of sugar plums and other holiday treats.
The only special stitch in this pattern—in my head I call it the cross-over stitch—is really just two standard stitches. It’s worked from a treble crochet and then a double crochet worked behind it. Simple! Yet it adds wonderful visual interest.
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The Silverthorne Crochet Christmas Stocking measures about 6 inches wide X 22 inches long when crocheted at the suggested gauge.
The printable PDF includes 15+ progress photos.
Supplies Needed
~ 5.5 ounces Loops and Threads Impeccable Yarn 4.5 oz skeins or other size 4 medium weight yarn. The body of this stocking is worked using a double strand of yarn. You’ll need 2 skeins or balls of yarn about 2.25 ounces each.
The sample stockings were stitched from: HEATHER, CLARET, and DEEP FOREST.
~ 1.5 ounces Bernat Pipsqueak Yarn or other size 5 bulky weight yarn. The cuff is stitched with a single strand.
The cuffs of the sample stockings were stitched from WHITEY WHITE.
~ Size K/6.5 mm hook
Buy the Silverthorne Christmas Stocking Pattern here!
