Crochet Stocking Gift Card Holder
If you’re like me, you give out a few gift cards every year at Christmas time. They can be a nice extra gesture for teachers, delivery drivers, and older nieces and nephews who want to shop for themselves. But sometimes gift cards can feel a little plain, don’t you think? That’s why I came up with this crochet stocking pattern as a gift card holder.
Finding a cute way to package a gift makes it extra special for the recipient, even when it’s as small as a gift card. This pattern is quick and easy (and free!), so you can whip up as many as you need for your gift cards this year too.
You can also use these cute little stockings as gift toppers, fill them with candy, or hang them on the tree. You could even make enough to hang as a kind of advent calendar, with a treat or note tucked inside. Lots of possibilities with this pattern!
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Crochet Stocking Gift Card Holder Pattern
Materials Used:
- Yarn – I Love This Yarn in Cranberry (available at Hobby Lobby)
Yarn Bee Fleece Lite in Sandstone (also available at Hobby Lobby) - Size H/5.00mm crochet hook
- Stitch marker
- Scissors (for trimming ends)
- Yarn needle (for weaving in ends)
Stitches/Abbreviations Used:
- magic ring
- ch – chain
- R – round or row
- st/sts – stitch/stitches
- sc – single crochet
- inc – increase (work 2 single crochet stitches into the next stitch)
- sl st- slip stitch
- FLO – front loops only
Finished size:
My stockings measure about 4″ wide x 5.25″ tall, using a size H/5.00mm hook and worsted weight (4) yarn. The opening for the gift card measures about 2.5″ across (gift cards are about 2″ wide). Your stockings may vary in size based on the yarn you use and your personal tension while crocheting.
Pattern Notes:
These mini stockings are made with simple stitches but don’t look basic at all! If you can single crochet and have just a little experience, you can make these crochet stocking gift card holders. These tips will help:
Pay close attention to the directions around round 11, when you’ll switch from working in the round to working in partial rows. This is for the heel of the stocking.
You’ll need to switch from your main color yarn to a second color for the top of the stocking. To switch colors, before finishing the last stitch with the old color, with the last 2 loops on the hook, drop the old color, pick up the new color, yarn over and complete the stitch. Now the new color will be on your hook and you can begin the next stitch.
The yarn I used for the top of the stocking is bulkier than the main color. You may find you want to size up your hook for those rounds, which is just fine. If you’re having any trouble seeing the tops of your stitches to work into, try feeling for each stitch post instead.
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Crochet Stocking Pattern:
You’ll work the stockings beginning with the toe, then the heel, and then up to the top.
R1: Using Cranberry (specific yarn list above), 6 sc into a magic ring. (6)
R2: Inc in each st around. (12)
R3: (Sc, inc) 6x around. (18)
R4: (5 sc, inc) 3x around. (21)
R5-R11: Sc in each st around.
You’ll now be working the heel of the stocking in partial, turned rows (instead of rounds). You can still use your stitch marker to mark the beginning of each row, if you find it helpful.
Row 1: Starting with the last loop of round 11 on your hook, 12 sc, ch 1, turn. Leave the remaining stitches from round 11 unworked. (12)
Rows 2-7: Sc in each st. Ch 1, turn. (12)
Do not chain 1 and turn after the last row. Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Use this tail and your yarn needle to sew the “back” of the heel together as pictured. Weave in end inside of stocking.
R12: You’ll begin working in rounds again.
Reattach cranberry yarn with a sc to one of the unworked stitches from round 12. Insert your stitch marker. Sc evenly into the ends of the partial rows and into the unworked red stitches from round 11. (22 – it’s ok if your stitch count varies slightly)
R13-R18: Sc in each st around.
R19: Switching to Fleece Lite yarn, in FLO, sc in each st around.
R20-R22: Sc in each st around.
If you’d like your stocking to have a loop for hanging (or just because you like the way the loop looks), don’t fasten off quite yet.
Work sc stitches until you get to the side of the stocking where you would like the loop. I had to work 9 sc here, but this number will depend on where you attached your yarn in round 12.
Then ch 6 and sl st into the same stitch. Fasten off, weaving in all remaining ends.
Finishing Up:
After my stockings were made, I wanted to add a little extra embellishment. I got small jingle bells and thin pieces of raffia (I split some down the center to make them thinner). Then I cut gift tag shapes out of paper bags.
I wrote names on the tags and used my yarn needle to weave the raffia through the stitches, securing inside the stocking. If you ask me, this little bit of personalization makes the stockings look extra adorable.
I hope you love your mini stockings! Have fun filling them and seeing the smiles on the faces of those you love.
If you’d like to see more of my free Christmas patterns, like the crochet stocking gift card holder, you can find them here. Happy crocheting!
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