Knitted Stocking Ornament

Size 2 needles, small amounts of red, white and/or green yarn.

Cast on 18 stitches using the white yarn.  Knit one row, purl one row, knit
one row.  Cut the white yarn leaving enough yarn to sew up the white part
or make a loop.  Using the red or the green yarn, beginning with a row of
knit stitches, knit twelve rows of stockinette stitch.  The twelfth row
should be a purl row.  13th Row:  Knit across twelve stitches.  Turn the
work and purl across six stitches.  Work nine more  rows on the center six
stitches.  The last row will be knit.  With the right side facing you, pick
up and knit five stitches down the side of the "foot".  Knit the six
stitches to the end of the row.  Turn the work.  Knit across the six
stitches at the beginning of the row, the five stitches that you just
picked up and knit and the six "middle" stitches.  Pick up and knit five
stitches on the remaining side of the "foot".  Knit across the last six
stitches.  28 stitches should be on the needle.  Knit in garter stitch for
three more rows.  The last row:  Knit across fourteen stitches.  Turn the
halves of the sock right sides together.  Weave the stitches together andsew up the
back of the stocking.  Make a loop and hang it up.

I hope that this is clear.  I can make one of these in about a half an
hour.  This is the ONLY thing that my younger sister will knit.

I am watching a blizzard from my tenth floor office window.  Frankly, I
would rather be home knitting.  I am not quite in the panic stage about
Christmas stuff -- fortunately,  there's not too much left to go.  Each
year I promise myself I will start sooner.

Have a great weekend!
"Catherine Bach"  

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