Better Homes & Gardens – Holiday Crafts 2019

Instructions

HolidayCrafts 2019 23

Rockin’ the Stocking

shown opposite

MATERIALS

Medium-weight 100% cotton yarn:
red, white, green
Size G/7 (4.5-millimeter)
crochet hook
Yarn needle

Note: Each sock is crocheted in the round.
Start each round with ch 1. Always join the
last stitch to the fi rst one with a slip stitch.
You can place a removable marker at the
beginning of each round and move marker
up as a round is completed. Stitches are
worked under both loops of stitches in the
previous round.

CROCHET THE TOE

Make adjustable ring (or magic ring).
Rnd 1: Ch 1, 8 sc in adjustable ring. Tighten
the ring. Join to the fi rst st (8 sts).
Rnd 2: Ch 1, 2 sc in each st around, sl st to
fi rst st (16 sts).
Rnd 3: Ch 1, sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in
next st, rep from around, sl st to fi rst st
(20 sts).
Rnds 4–5: Ch 1, sc in each st around, sl st
to fi rst st (20 sts).
If changing colors, fasten off , cut yarn,
and join new color.

CROCHET THE FOOT

Rnds 1–7: Sc in each st around, sl st to

fi rst st.

Fasten off , cut yarn, and join new color.

CROCHET THE HEEL

The heel is crocheted back and forth,

turning after each row. Join yarn in the

middle of the side of the foot, so the

previous round endings are at the bottom

of the foot.

Row 1: Sc in next 12 sts, turn (12 sts).

Row 2: Ch 1, sc in 2nd st, sc in next 9 sts,

turn (10 sts).

Row 3: Ch 1, sc in 2nd st, sc in next 8 sts,

turn (9 sts).

Row 4: Ch 1, sc in 2nd st, sc in next 2 sts,

sc2tog, sc in next 3 sts, turn (7 sts).

Row 5: Ch 1, sc in 2nd st, sc in next st,

sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts (5 sts).

Fasten off , cut yarn, and join new color.

beg – beginning

ch – chain stitch

sc – single crochet

sc2tog – single crochet 2

stitches together (decrease)

sl st – slip stitch

st(s) – stitch(es)

rep – repeat

rnd(s) – round(s)

crochet abbreviations

CROCHET THE LEG

Crochet in the round.

Rnd 1: Pick up and crochet 10 sc around

heel, 10 sc around top of the foot, sl st to

fi rst st (20 sts).

Rnd 2: Ch 1, sc in next 8 sts, *sc2tog, sc in

next 3 sts, rep from * once, sc2tog, sl st to

fi rst st (17 sts).

Rnds 3–9: Ch 1, sc in each st around, sl st

to fi rst st (17 sts).

Fasten off , cut yarn, and join new color.

CROCHET THE CUFF

Rnd 1: Sc in each st around, or every

3 sts make a spike st (sc in row below the

working row), sl st to fi rst st (17 sts).

Rnd 2: Sl st around to the back of the leg,

ch 9, sl st in same st, sl st to the end of

the rnd.

Fasten off. Cut yarn. Weave in ends.