Worldwide Christmas Stocking Exchange 2014

Do you remember the stocking that I made earlier and sent to FreHugz?
Do you remember me telling you I was suppose to recieve one my self in this swap, but not from FreHugz? I send to someone, and that someone does not send to me.

Anyway, holisticknitter sent me a wonderful surprise of a package that I got in the postbox today!

I guess she has been really looking at my blog/my postings on Ravelry and so on, because she really got this package togheter like she knew me really well! I am amazed and so in love with everything in this package that I don't know what to begin to show you!

First of: This stocking is blue, my favourite colour, love it! 

But it is not the only stocking in the package, I got 4 in total!

I got a little cute red one for the Christmas Tree, and a wash coth with a stocking on, and I got a pair of socks with gingerbread on them! (I have to keep a close eye to make sure that pair of socks just doesn't walk out the door one day on the "wrong" pair of feet, someone here liked them just as much as I do! )

And I got a set of gingerbread cutters, a bookmark and some cute christmas stickers! I love it! Now I just have to find a very christmassy picture to put in the bookmark and I am ready to read a book!


But as if that was not all, I got the worlds cutest gingerbread house to decorate the christmas tree with! And it arrived in one piece! And that is amazing! I have not seen anything like it, and I hope it will last for years to come since I like it so much I am not able to eat it!


Thank you ever so much, holisticknitter, for knitting such a lovely stocking and putting togheter this lovely package for me ! ♥♥♥

2014 Worldwide Christmas Stocking Exchange

This year I have made and sent a stocking to FreHugz in the USA, and I hope she loves it!

Since I know she has got it and opened it, I am posting pictures here so that you all can see the stocking I made!

The pattern is from Dale Garn, from a Christmas Stockning booklet with the number 8701 on it, the booklet contains patterns in English.

I made the "Fana stocking" without the stripes on it, and changed the heel (I dislike knitting heels on socks) and the toe-thing. It turned out just the way I liked it, so I was very hopeful that the reciever also should like it!

I used Mellanraggi, white and red, and knitted it on needles 4 1/2. My only regret with this is that I should have used a thicker yarn, since it got all soft after being washed. Thicker yarn would have kept the shape better and the stuffing of the stocking in it. But you learn something new everytime you make stockings, and that I like!

Togheter with the stocking I sent some typical Norwegian Christmassy stuff, and an chocolate from Island that I found getting the two norwegian ones.

The theme of the swap was gingerbread cookies, and I got the to gingerbread things in a shop at Solsiden shoppingsenter here in Trondheim. In the summer month of june!

The coffee is bought from Cemo Gourmet, an online store, and is "Knitting Coffee". I had to add it to the package just because of the knitting theme-picture on it.