Happy December everyone! Can you believe it’s already December 2024? What is happening? I don’t think I’m ready for 2025. I just feel like the year has flown by. But at least we still have weeks of festivities and joy ahead of us. Speaking of which, this week’s new free pattern plays right into that – the Twinkle Toes Reindeer Stocking.

Starting back in 2019 from with the Pretty in Gingham Stocking, I have been making an annual stocking design. They just make me so happy and they work up fast, which I imagine is great for this time of year. I’m not even making gifts for people and I feel overwhelmed right now. And that’s why I decided to design a stocking every December – hopefully it can be something you make for yourself 🙂

This year, unlike years past, I decided to make something a little simple but also not. I wanted to keep the “arch” portion of the stocking plain and add a reindeer to the top. I wanted the contrast of a complicated design surrounded by easy. That way you can add other elements, such as stars, to customize the final look. Or you could get fancy and double the reindeer instructions so you have 2. How cute would that be?

For the tapestry/ color work portion of this design, I decided i do it in the round but not BLO (as I often like to use). This way as you’re working back and forth across the rows you can drop color A as you’d like and just crochet over color B when A is in use. I hope that makes sense. It may make where the reindeer a bit bulky but it’s easily evened out with some steam blocking. But I like the little extra there, makes it look more pronounced. 😀

Anyway, I do hope you like this week’s design. It was a fun one for me to design and make. I love to bring festive fun with color work and I hope it inspires others to try it out.
As always, thank you for following along and please remember to be kind to yourself and others.

Please note: I was provided the yarn for this pattern by Lion Brand Yarn for the purposes of designing the other patterns. I wasn’t provided the yarn with the expectations of positive or negative reviews but I really like this yarn. I used it often for a variety of designs, it’s one of my favorite worsted weight yarns. This post features affiliate links, so if you purchase using one of them I may be compensated.

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Where to purchase the Twinkle Toes Reindeer Stocking crochet pattern

Gauge

• 18 sc x 20 rows = 4”

Terms/ Stitches used

• St: Stitch
• Ch: Chain
• Rnd: Round
• Magic Circle
• RS: Right side
• Sl st: Slip stitch
• Sc: Single crochet
• Sc2tog: Sc 2 sts together
• Hdc: Half double crochet
• Join: Join the round with a slip st

Notes

• Buy the easy to read pdf in my Ravelry shop here.
• This pattern is mostly worked in the round (Rnd) with a slip st into the first st of the rnd and a turn.
• The ch 1 at the beginning of the row does not count as a stitch.
• This stocking is worked from the Toe up in sections (but still one piece): first the Toe, the Arch, the Heel (which is not worked in the rnd), the Ankle, and the Cuff. 
• The graphing section will tell you the color “A” or “B” and the amount of sc you need to make. There is not graph for this pattern in the free version.
• The colors in the photos Pound of Love yarn was used: color A is white (POL in White) and color B is red (POL in Cherry).

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Twinkle Toes Reindeer Stocking Crochet Pattern

Heel Seaming

Fold your Heel in half along Row 10, lining up Rows 1 – 9 with Rows 11 – 19 (9 rows) and seam the row ends together in your preferred method of seaming. Repeat on the other side of the Heel.
Fasten off, weave in your ends.

Ankle

Please note: if you’d like to add stars to the Arch section, add them now as it’s harder later.
To begin the Ankle: Pick up color B where you dropped it on the Arch. For Rnd 38 you will be working into the 22 sts of Rnd 37 of the Arch and the 20 sts of the Heel (in that order).
Rnd 38: B: Ch 1, turn, sc into the next 42 sts, join — 42 sc
Rnds 39 – 43: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join — 42 sc
The following rounds is where the color work takes place. I didn’t carry color A through the round, I just used it where it was called for and dropped it down the WS when not in use. You can carry/ crochet over or use intarsia as you’d like.
The following rows will tell you the color “A” or “B” and the number for how may stitches you make.
Row 44: Ch 1, turn, B28, A2, B12, join — 42 sc
Row 45: Ch 1, turn, B12, A2, B13, A2, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 46: Ch 1, turn, B13, A2, B13, A2, B12, join — 42 sc
Row 47: Ch 1, turn, B12, A2, B13, A2, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 48: Ch 1, turn, B13, A2, B12, A2, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 49: Ch 1, turn, B13, A7, B6, A2, B14, join — 42 sc
Row 50: Ch 1, turn, B14, A15, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 51: Ch 1, turn, B13, A14, B15, join — 42 sc
Row 52: Ch 1, turn, B15, A14, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 53: Ch 1, turn, B13, A14, B15, join — 42 sc
Row 54: Ch 1, turn, B15, A15, B12, join — 42 sc
Row 55: Ch 1, turn, B12, A2, B4, A9, B15, join — 42 sc
Row 56: Ch 1, turn, B15, A4, B10, A1, B12, join — 42 sc
Row 57: Ch 1, turn, B24, A3, B15, join — 42 sc
Row 58: Ch 1, turn, B15, A3, B24, join — 42 sc
Row 59: Ch 1, turn, B24, A5, B13, join — 42 sc
Row 60: Ch 1, turn, B13, A6, B23, join — 42 sc
Row 61: Ch 1, turn, B21, A6, B15, join — 42 sc
Row 62: Ch 1, turn, B17, A1, B3, A1, B20, join — 42 sc
Row 63: Ch 1, turn, B19, A1, B3, A1, B18, join — 42 sc
Row 64: Ch 1, turn, B18, A1, B23, join — 42 sc
Fasten off color A. 
Rnds 65 – 71: B: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join — 42 sc
Fasten off color B, switch to color A. Move onto the Cuff.

You can pick up the Twinkle Toes Reindeer Crochet Pattern in my Ravelry shop.

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