I learned how to knit when I turned 18 years old and it didn’t really go that far because I just couldn’t get the hang of it, but I never gave up on it. Several years ago I started watching knitting YouTube tutorials and I found these guys named Arne and Carlos and they are in Norway. They had a video tutorial to make a Christmas stocking and at the time the stocking pattern was free on their website and I downloaded the image which is a graph and I watched the video instructions for the toe and the heel and how to do everything else. I loved the pattern so much and the next year I decided I wanted to make another stocking and they put them on their website for sale. I ended up buying the one that they had which is a 2019 stocking.

That first stocking, their instructions for the toe were different and I don’t think that I was able to understand it. So for some reason I did that one and that one was clearly the wrong choice because it looks terrible LOL. I also used knitting needles that were too big and the stocking was humongous. A newborn baby could have probably fit inside there. The second stocking was the 2019 stocking and I made the correct toe on this one.

So I was thinking I wanted to make another stocking and I went to their website and they had a bunch more stockings, and so I bought the one that I posted the image of above and it only took me a couple of days to make. I had a little trouble with the heel because it was an afterthought heel and I apparently did not know about lifelines using floss and I completely messed up trying to put the knitting needles in there, but now I know for the next time.

I paid $7 for this pattern a few days ago and then I went to get some yarn and that was another $15. After I finished this stocking tonight, I went back to their website to see if I wanted any of their other patterns because I finished this one so fast. I thought I might as well make another one and they’re on sale for $2.80 right now. So I bought all of the rest of the patterns that they have except for the one that has pictures of cars on it. I now have 10 stocking patterns from them.

Their website is https://www.arnecarlos.com/home/. They have a YouTube channel @arnecarlos with lots of knitting tutorials.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that they have some really good patterns that you can buy and they’re really not that hard to make. And like I said, I made this stocking in like 2 or 3 days. I barely used any of the green and I still have enough yarn to make maybe two or three more stockings. I think this is a really good buy. I’m going to start making another stocking using the same colors since I still have so much yarn left over.