I decided the second week of December my husband and I needed hand knit stockings for our first married Christmas. Never made a stocking before so figured why not make two?!

Pattern info: Knit Purl Hunter’s Christmas Stocking pattern as the base and most of the colorwork charts. I used the loon chart from The Loon Sweater by cm knits (my husband said he wouldn’t appreciate a sweater enough to warrant me making him one. I appreciate his honesty!) Loons hold a special place in his heart going back to his childhood summers spent in Minnesota with his grandparents, so I had to incorporate a loon somehow! Yarn: Cascade 220 in white, Christmas red and Christmas green