Crochet Christmas Stocking Pattern: 4 Designs with a Name Panel

This crochet Christmas stocking pattern makes four full size stockings, Nordic Stripe, Evergreen Cable, Snowfall and Hearth Plaid, on one cuff, leg, heel, foot and toe, so the set matches, plus an optional name panel. Each is 64 stitches around in joined rounds of single crochet, in 4, medium (worsted) yarn with a 5 mm (US H-8) hook, about 20 cm / 8 in wide and 43 cm / 17 in tall.

Four Christmas stocking designs from one crochet pattern

The four Christmas stockings in our pattern use one construction from the cuff down to the toe, and only the surface changes from one design to the next, so the stitch counts, the heel and the finishing stay the same whichever stocking you pick up. Make one, and the other three feel familiar. Every design shares the same cuff, leg, heel, foot and toe, so your set matches when it hangs together. The palette is Cream, Cranberry and Green. Never more than two colours sit in a round.

Make the Evergreen Cable first if colourwork is new to you. Its leg uses one colour.

Nordic Stripe stocking

The photo shows the Nordic Stripe stocking on the hook, the first design in the set.

The Nordic Stripe stocking is Cream with narrow Cranberry and Green stripes on single crochet, made with colour changes. Three little peerie bands of diamonds break up the leg: two in Green and one in Cranberry between them. The foot carries three more stripes. A Cranberry cuff, heel and toe frame it. A colour that pauses for 4 rounds or fewer is carried up the inside of the stocking. A longer pause means you cut it and join it again, so no long strand runs up the inside.

Evergreen Cable stocking

The Evergreen Cable is the textured stocking of the set, shown here with its Cream cuff.

The Evergreen Cable stocking is Forest Green with raised rope cables on a single crochet ground, made with front post stitches. Each cable crosses as a C6F: three front post treble crochet over three. Thin ribs run between the cables. The cuff is Cream. The heel and toe are Green. You work the whole leg in one colour, so this is the quickest of the four.

Snowfall stocking

This close-up shows how the Snowfall snowflakes sit stitch by stitch on the cranberry leg.

The Snowfall stocking is Cranberry with Cream snowflakes, made with tapestry crochet. Two rows of four large snowflakes hold a row of small stars between them, with rows of little dots above and below. The cuff, heel and toe are Cream. The colour you are not using rides along the tops of the stitches and you work over it. Keep that carried strand relaxed, because a tight one makes the Cranberry pucker behind the snowflakes.

Hearth Plaid stocking

The Hearth Plaid photo shows the finished tartan, stripes first and lines on top.

The Hearth Plaid stocking is a tartan made in two steps. You crochet stripes in Cranberry, Green and Cream. Then, once the stocking is finished, you add vertical lines of surface slip stitch in Green and Cream. One surface slip stitch covers one round, so each line runs from Round 15 down to the last round of the foot. The cuff is Cream, with a Green heel and toe.

For more mantel decor beside the stockings, an advent calendar is the next project: see Crochet Advent Calendar Pattern: 24 Pocket Christmas Countdown.

The name panel for a personalized stocking

Yes, each stocking can carry a name. The optional name panel is a small Cream panel that you work in single crochet on a 29 chain base, 10 rows in all, with the same 5 mm hook, then cross stitch with the name and sew to the cuff on the front face, stitches 17 to 48. Our PDF includes a name panel alphabet chart with a worked example, so you can plan any name square by square.

The name is not crocheted in. It is cross stitched over single crochet with a tapestry needle, one X over each stitch. Each panel takes about 12 m / 13 yd of Cream and about 7 m / 8 yd of a contrast colour.

The photo shows a finished name panel sewn to the cuff, the part of the stocking that faces the room.

How the crochet stocking is built: cuff, leg, heel, foot and toe

Every stocking in our set is built from the top down in the same five steps:

1. Work the cuff in back loop single crochet, which makes fine horizontal ridges.
2. Work the leg in joined rounds of 64 stitches, following the chart or the written line for your design.
3. Leave the heel opening in Round 66 by chaining across the first half of the round.
4. Work the foot and close the toe.
5. Work the heel last, into the opening, decreasing with sc2tog to 16 stitches and whipstitching the two sides together.

The heel goes in last, so it sits right every time and there are no gaps at the corners. Two extra single crochet in the corner gaps close the little holes that heels are known for. You finish the top edge in reverse single crochet and add a hanging loop.

These are the colour charts from the stocking pattern: one square is one stitch, and you read every round from right to left.

Yarn, hook and gauge for the stockings

Each stocking uses 4, medium (worsted) yarn in two or three colours, and the amount changes with the design. The table gives each colour in metres and yards, as our pattern lists them.

The table shows that the Evergreen Cable takes the most Green and the Snowfall the most Cranberry.

For any of the four you need a worsted acrylic or wool blend, a 5 mm (US H-8) hook, a tapestry needle, scissors and 3 stitch markers in two colours, and your gauge (UK: tension) should be 16 sc and 18 rounds = 10 cm / 4 in in single crochet worked in the round.

The Craft Yarn Council “Standard Yarn Weight System” lists 5.5 to 6.5 mm hooks for category 4 yarn, and the council calls its ranges guidelines only. This stocking works tighter than that range. Use the size that gives you the gauge. Swatch in the round, not in rows, because crochet in rounds has a slightly different gauge.

The flat lay shows the three yarn colours next to the stockings they make.

Stitches each stocking design uses

All four designs share the same base stitches, and each one adds a single extra technique.

The table reads across: every row starts from the same stitches, so only the last column tells the designs apart.

The pattern sits at the CYC Intermediate level, the Craft Yarn Council level for projects that “may include involved stitch patterns, color work, and/or shaping” in its “Project Levels” standard. The rating fits because the set combines colourwork, post stitch cables and heel shaping. You should know chain, slip stitch and single crochet (UK: double crochet) before you start, and the pattern explains the colour changes, the front post stitches and the heel step by step, so the new skills arrive one at a time inside the stocking itself. Front post double crochet is front post treble in UK terms.

Finished stocking size

The finished stocking is about 20 cm / 8 in wide and 43 cm / 17 in tall, and 26 cm / 10 in from heel to toe. Every design is 64 stitches around, so all four come out the same size, and the front face, the side that faces your room when the stocking hangs from its loop, is always stitches 17 to 48. The hanging loop sits over the back line, so the stocking hangs straight.

Held in two hands, one stocking shows the full size this pattern makes.

When a mini or granny square stocking suits you better

No, this is not a mini Christmas stocking pattern. Every design is a full size hanging stocking. If you want small stockings, two of our pattern sets name one in their titles, so start there. The Candy Cane Covers set names a mini stocking in its title. The Mini Sweater and Mitten Ornaments set names a tiny stocking among its ornaments.

The stocking set has no granny squares either. It is worked in joined rounds of single crochet. If you want a granny square stocking, learn the square first with How to Crochet a Granny Square for Beginners.

Stitches to practise before you start

The Evergreen Cable uses front post stitches, so a few practice cables on a swatch make your first C6F cross easier. The cable stitch tutorial, Crochet Cable Stitch: Front Post and Back Post Cables, covers front and back post cables.

Stockings are one part of our Christmas crochet patterns, set out together in Christmas Crochet Patterns: Ornaments, Stockings and Decor. For tree ornament patterns, see Crochet Christmas Ornament Patterns: 15 Types to Make. Every design in the shop sits in Crochet Patterns to Make: Christmas Decor and Winter Wear, our full list of crochet patterns.