Holiday Gifts - Part II

So I said in December that I'd made Kai a stocking for Xmas last year and his mom suggested that she and her husband could use one as well. I managed to get half of that request done. Mom got her stocking and Dad got to look at his. Here's what two of them look like together at home, with a posing Kai.

The Snowman and Holiday Goodies Stockings

A closer look at only Mom's stocking shows it is just a white sock with a gingerbread man, candy cane, Xmas tree, holly berry, cookie, star, candies and a couple of gifts as decorations. I like Kai's green stocking along side his mom's white one.

The Holiday Goodies Stocking

The instructions for this stocking were free but not without a problem. In the gusset section it tells you to K27, but it should be K17 instead. If you make that change the heel will work out perfectly. I had to do it wrong, get help from a colleague who makes lots of sock and then redo it. A small detour to get this satisfactory end result.

A quick story about Kai and his stocking. If you look at the first photo, you'll see I made the loop rather large. He decided it was made that way to use as a head band. There's an energetic video of him dancing around the house with his stocking looped on his head. He was disappointed when his mom's loop was too short to be worn the same way. Kai's very smart mom told him his stocking was made just for him. It's great that something so simple can give him such pleasure.

More about his dad's stocking tomorrow.

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