This holiday season, use this FREE pattern to make your own holiday stockings! This is a simple knit, made with ONLY straight needles, making it an easy pattern for even beginner knitters to accomplish!

This holiday season, use this FREE pattern to make your own holiday stockings!

This is a simple knit, made with ONLY straight needles, making it an easy pattern for even beginner knitters to accomplish!

A hand-knit Christmas stocking adds such a nice personal touch on Christmas morning!

Make one for each family member, but don’t forget to make yourself your own Christmas stocking, too!

These elegant handmade Christmas stockings are knit from the toe to the top of the stocking.

This knit stocking is made by making 2 identical patterns — there is no “right side” or “wrong side,” thanks to the double seed stitch used in this pattern.

These finished stockings measure 15″ tall.

These stockings are made in a solid color, so you don’t need to worry about any color changes.

And while most knitted Christmas stockings are made with either double-pointed needles or with circular needles, the new knitter will be thrilled to know that only simple straight needles and very basic knitting stitches are used in this particular pattern!

So get into the Christmas spirit by enjoying this free Christmas knitting pattern!

For this project, I suggest DK weight yarn and 3.75 mm needles. This gave me a stocking that measures 15″ tall, 6.5″ wide at the stocking top, and 10″ at the toe of the stocking.

If you’d prefer to use a thicker yarn for this project, I have also achieved beautiful results making this stocking with worsted weight yarn and a slightly larger needle size (4 mm). This will give you a slightly larger stocking, about 1″ taller/wider in all directions. Whatever you decide on, it won’t make much of a difference when hanging by the Christmas tree!

Some of my favorite yarn is from Knit Picks, so that’s where I purchased my yarn for this project. The red yarn seen in the photos is “Garnet Heather Swish DK.” The green yarn seen is “Forest Heather, Wool of the Andes Worsted.” Again, both yarns can be found on the Knit Picks website!

Since this stocking is worked as two panels that are then sewn together, you’ll also want a tapestry needle for this project.

For the hanging loop, you may either want a small amount of ribbon to tie onto the top of your stocking, or you can cast on a short row of knit stitches, knit a row or two, then cast off those stitches and use that as your hanging loop. I didn’t provide and exact pattern for this portion as it should be pretty self explanatory.