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October 2026 | Peanut & Plum Masterclass & Heirloom CollectionCosy Cottage Christmas Stockings

Cosy Cottage Christmas Stocking

Timeless Skills. Heirloom Tools. Beautiful Projects.

Create two Beautiful Handmade Christmas Stockings designed to become part of your family’s Christmas for years to come. Personalised with the large wooden name tags that add that perfect rustic touch!

October’s Masterclass & Heirloom Collection combines gorgeous traditional colour, rich crochet texture and beautiful finishing details as we make two full-size Cosy Cottage Christmas Stockings — one in Fern and one in Bracken, with wonderfully soft Cloud White details.

At the heart of this month’s Masterclass is our Houndstooth-inspired Crunch Stitch texture. You’ll discover how simple crochet stitches and clever colour changes work together to create a beautifully detailed, almost woven-looking fabric.

Then I’ll guide you through every stage of turning that fabric into a proper Christmas stocking — from the toe and foot to heel shaping, leg, deep ribbed cuff and those all-important finishing touches.

Simply open your collection, scan your QR code and crochet along with me.

What You’ll Learn

October’s complete step-by-step Masterclass guides you through both the stitch pattern and stocking construction from beginning to end.

• Creating the Houndstooth-inspired effect through stitch placement and colour
• How to alternate colours neatly throughout the pattern
• Reading and maintaining the textured stitch repeat
• Working and shaping the stocking toe and foot
• Creating and positioning the heel
• Building the stocking leg
• Creating a deep ribbed crochet cuff
• Neat joining, seaming and colour changes
• Professional finishing
• Adding your wooden personalisation and leather hanging tags

The finished stitch pattern may look intricate, but the magic comes from the way simple stitches are alternated and repeated.

By the end of your Masterclass, you won’t just have two beautiful Christmas stockings — you’ll have learned texture, colourwork, shaping, ribbing and finishing techniques you can use again in future crochet projects.

What’s Included

Sirdar Loveful Recycled Tweed DK in Fern & Bracken

Sirdar Soft Down in Cloud White

Lantern Moon 5mm Ebony Crochet Hook

2 × Large Wooden Personalisation Tags

2 × Handmade Leather Hanging Tags

All the little notions and essentials needed to complete both stockings

Exclusive Cosy Cottage Christmas Stockings printed photo tutorial booklet

Clear step-by-step illustrated instructions

QR access to the complete Cosy Cottage Christmas Stockings Video Masterclass

Everything has been carefully selected to work beautifully together, so there’s no searching for the right yarn, hook or finishing accessories.

October’s Heirloom Tool

Lantern Moon 5mm Ebony Crochet Hook

This month another beautiful hook joins your growing Heirloom Collection.

Your 5mm Lantern Moon crochet hook is handcrafted from smooth ebony wood and beautifully finished to create a warm, comfortable hook that allows your yarn to glide as you crochet.

And this isn’t a hook included simply to get you through one project.

Once your stockings are hanging proudly at Christmas, your 5mm Lantern Moon hook stays with you — ready for project after project and another beautiful addition to your growing collection of heirloom crochet tools.

Made to Learn As You Crochet

Never made a crochet stocking before? That’s absolutely fine.

The project has been designed as a Masterclass, so I’ll take you through each technique as we reach it.

We’ll learn how the Houndstooth-inspired Crunch Stitch pattern is formed, where each stitch belongs, how the colour changes create the effect and how to keep that beautiful texture developing consistently.

Then we’ll work through the stocking construction together — including the toe, foot, heel, leg and deep ribbed cuff.

Your printed booklet includes photographs to refer to as you work, while your QR code gives you access to the complete step-by-step video Masterclass.

Pause, rewind and crochet at your own pace.

Rustic Tweed Meets Cloud-Soft Texture

One of my favourite things about this collection is the combination of yarns.

Sirdar Loveful Recycled Tweed DK in Fern and Bracken gives our stockings that traditional, rustic character. The little tweed neps running through the yarn add even more interest to the textured crochet fabric and look gorgeous worked into the Houndstooth-inspired stitch pattern.

Then we introduce Sirdar Soft Down in Cloud White.

Its wonderfully soft, brushed halo creates a completely different texture against the tweed — giving the white sections a gentle, almost snowy softness.

Together, Fern, Bracken and Cloud White create that warm, timeless Cosy Cottage Christmas look.

Make Them Personal

These aren’t just Christmas decorations.

Your collection includes two large wooden personalisation tags, allowing you to add a name to each finished stocking and make them completely your own.

You’ll also receive two handmade leather hanging tags, giving each stocking a beautiful finishing detail as well as a sturdy way to hang it ready for Christmas morning.

Make them for your children, grandchildren, someone special — or keep them for your own fireplace.

They’re designed to be packed away after Christmas and brought out again, year after year.

Everything You Need. Nothing Else To Buy.

Your yarns, 5mm Lantern Moon ebony hook, personalisation tags, leather hanging tags, pattern booklet, Masterclass and all the little essentials needed to complete your two stockings are included.

Make a cup of tea, get comfortable, scan your Masterclass QR code and crochet along with me.

No complicated shopping list.

No wondering which yarn or hook you need.

No trying to work out unfamiliar techniques alone.

Just open your box and begin.

Build Your Heirloom Collection

Each Peanut & Plum Masterclass & Heirloom Collection gives you something beautiful to make, something new to learn and premium tools to keep.

As your collection grows, so will your crochet skills — alongside a carefully chosen collection of beautiful tools designed to be used for years to come.

October adds your 5mm Lantern Moon ebony crochet hook to the collection while introducing texture, colourwork, stocking construction, shaping and ribbing to your growing crochet skill set.

Missed a previous collection? Where available, you can purchase the complete kit or collect individual heirloom products separately, allowing you to continue building your collection at your own pace.

Perfect For

Crocheters wanting to learn beautiful textured stitches, makers ready to try shaping and construction, Christmas craft lovers, anyone who appreciates beautiful heirloom tools, and those who would love to create something personal that can become part of their family’s Christmas traditions.

Learn the stitches. Create the texture. Make Christmas memories.

Peanut & Plum Masterclass & Heirloom Collection — October 2026