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Inspired by the story of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, these knee-high stockings look back over the history of a woman who, jilted at the alter in the bloom of her youth, clings to the memory of her wedding day and as she ages becomes frail, rigid and elegantly moth-eaten.
Stockings are knit in the round from picot-edged cuff to toe with a flap heel and round toe. A ribbon threaded through a round of eyelets just below the picot edge helps to keep the stockings from slipping. Instructions and charts are written for 2 circular needles but pattern may be worked on dpns or by Magic Loop.
Pattern available exclusively from The Sanguine Gryphon.
That’s cool,
I certainly would like to make myself a pair, to wear whenever I felt like it and even for cake demalution day.
They are in the soul and spirit of Miss Havisham, I wish you would have had it so that in the pattern there is
a run on the bottom of the foot of the stocking, from trodden ragged, sort of.
Anyhow, I have seen Gillan Anderson as Miss Havisham and I thought that in the future if you’d ever wanted to alter the pattern you would want to make it so that one area of stitching could be vines,
or flowers.