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New Ancestral Christmas Stocking Kit

By Ann Shayne and Modern Daily Knitting

$64.80

It’s the pattern that has launched hundreds of jolly stockings to mantels all across the land. Kit includes four skeins of MDK Atlas yarn and a PDF download of the pattern. Kit makes two stockings if you change the order of colors on your second stocking.

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Specs & Details

Yarn Weight
Light Worsted
Fibers
100% Rambouillet Wool
Unit Weight
50g (2 oz)
Yarn Length
580 yards (145 yds each), 528 m (132 m each)
Gauge
26 sts + 33 rows = 4 inches (10 cm)
Needles
US 3 circular needle (qty 2), 24 inches long, 3.25 mm circular needle (qty 2), 60 cm long
Sizes
20 in L x 8 in W 51 cm L x 21 cm W, 4 skeins Atlas per bundle,

The New Ancestral Christmas Stocking came into Ann’s life many years ago as a tattered photocopy of a mimeograph of a cuneiform stone-incised recipe for an oversized stocking, complete with intarsia image of a lumpy Santa.

Ann filled in all the blurry bits, deciphered many handwritten notes from unknown ancestors, and redesigned her family’s treasured stocking for the Modern Age of Christmas.

What we love about this stocking:

Capacity. You can cram a lot of Toblerones and horehound candy in this baby. The leg is long and the toe is virtually bottomless. This hardworking sock is not just for decoration; it’s for cargo.

Tradition. Lumpy Santa is gone, but there’s no mistaking the holiday cheer here. Snowflakes! Elf stripes! Argyles!

Modernity. The lines are clean and the font for the duplicate-stitched name is simple and unadorned.

The pattern is available separately here. Choose your own four colors of Atlas!