Decrease for Toe:
- Set-up round: K2tog, K43, K2tog, K43.
- Round 1: K20, K2tog, SSK, K40, K2tog, SSK, K20.
- Round 2: Knit.
- Round 3: K19, K2tog, SSK, K38, K2tog, SSK, K19.
- Round 4: Knit.
- Continue as established until there are 52 stitches, ending with a knit round.
- Distribute the stitches over 2 double pointed needles (or two ends of a long circular), with a decrease at the end of each needle. Work Kitchener Stitch toe, or do a 3-needle bind off.
Cuff Flap:
- Cast on 90 stitches and work in Stockinette Stitch for 4 inches, until piece is the same length as cream block at upper edge of stocking. Do not bind off.
- Embroider the name onto the stocking in red using Duplicate Stitch and referring to the Alphabet Charts for guidance.
- With red yarn, pick up and knit 90 stitches around cast on edge of flap. Work a 4-stitch attached I-cord around this edge in red (to do so, cast on 20 stitches and place at front of left needle. Using size 5 needles, knit 3 and SSK last stitch of I-cord together with first stitch of picked up border).
- Continue all around, then bind off the I-cord.
Finishing:
With red yarn, pick up and knit 20 stitches along cast on edge of stocking. Place flap on top of stocking with right side facing out. Knit the stitches on the flap together with the picked up stitches on the cast-on edge of the stocking, all around (90 stitches on needle, and the flap and stocking are now joined; see picture).
Make a 4-stitch I-cord about 6 inches long with US size 5 (3.75 mm) needles.
Place the 4 stitches of the I-cord in front of the stitches around the top edge of the stocking, and work an attached I-cord (on size 5 needles) by knitting 3, then working a SSK with the last stitch on the I-cord and the next stitch on the stocking edge. Bind off.
Sew bound off I-cord edge to beginning of I-cord to make a hanging loop.
Weave in ends.