Last Minute Stocking Ornament

First off, raise your hand if you have ever torn apart a whole closet looking for three measly skeins of yarn that you knew you had somewhere...

Okay, on to this sock.  I was planning on making a few of these to give to my co-workers, but I decided I didn't really want to have to knit them all right now.  Next year, I'll know better. (Okay, okay, get up off the floor and stop laughing.)

These are super-rough directions.  If you are confused, just wing it.  It doesn't have to really stretch like a sock does, either, so you don't have to be too picky about your floats.  Mine looks like crap on the inside.

I used size 2 needles and Wollywasch yarn.  Use whatever you have.  Took me a couple of hours.

I cast on 32.  Leave a really long tail on the beginning and you can make your loop out of it when you are done.  K1P1 rib for six rounds.  Knit one round plain.  (Next time I think I will increase two stitches here and put an extra stitch before the 2, the year looks a little squooshed.)   Follow chart 1 from here.

Now, up until this point, the ends of the row were on the left in the photo, so the jog doesn't really matter, since the sock will never really be three dimensional.  I rearranged my stitches at this point, so I had the flap on one needle to work on.

I knitted 16 rows of eye of partridge flap.  Turn heel.   I don't have the exact numbers that I used for this part, I kind of winged it. 

Now, as I was picking up the stitches on the sides of the flap, things got tricky.  I got them all picked up, but then I immediately re-arranged so the end of the round was at the bottom of the sock.  From this point on, you would  follow chart 2. 

I decreased every other row at the bottom of the sock, trying to keep the pattern as little interrupted as possible until I was back down to my original 32 stitches.  I knit one round plain and then did a star toe:
K2tog, k6 four times.
K one round plain. 
K2tog, k5 four times.
K one round plain.
K2tog, k4 four times.
K2tog, k3 four times.
K2tog, k2 four times.

I turned the sock inside out with the needles still on it and did a three needle bindoff on the inside.  I didn't weave in any of the ends, they are all just tucked inside.

Go back and make a loop from the beginning end of the yarn.  I had to reattach yarn for mine, because I wasn't thinking ahead.  I crocheted a chain for my loop, but you could braid or whatever. 

Have a Happy Holiday!