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Thank you to Ivy Trumpour, UE, Elizabeth Hancocks, UE, Mary Anne Bethune, UE, Sandra DeYoung and Concetta Phillipps for all their suggestions and websites for making knitted stockings. I combined ideas from several patterns and my own experience, but essentially used the pattern found in the webpage ‘Hand Knit Hose, a Knitted Stocking Pattern by Donna Flood Kenton’, although I modified the number of stitches and rows to suit my yarn and size.

The clock patterns are from "Notes on 18th Century Stockings" and I embroidered them on afterwards using a duplicate stitch, aka Swedish embroidery. I used 100% cotton yarn in a natural colour and the contrasting colour is an indigo blue. I did do a more modern ribbed and turned heel and grafted the toe with the Kitchener stitch for a better, more comfortable fit. I learned a new technique while doing this – of making a real ‘garter stitch’ while doing round knitting by using the ‘wrap and turn’ method (as found in the above “Notes on 18th C Stockings”).

I wore the stockings with my outfit to the North Lanark Highland Games in Almonte, ON, where the Clan Munro Association of Canada (of which I am Secretary) has an information booth. My stockings and outfit were both well received. See the photos. In the photo at the Games, Stuart McVey is 90 yrs old and still the bass drummer for the Kemptville Legion Pipe Band which wears a Munro tartan.

Jo Ann Munro Tuskin, U.E.

Jo Ann Tuskin's stockings.

Jo Ann Tuskin and Stuart McVey At the Clan Munro Gathering