KNIT STOCKING - Christmas Ornament With Your Name

A little knitted stocking for the tree, with a name on the cuff. Print one for everyone in the family, or use them as gift tags.

KNIT STOCKING is a puffy Christmas stocking ornament with a real stockinette knit texture (the V stitches of a hand-knitted sock), a ribbed white cuff with a scalloped edge, white heel and toe, and a hanging loop. The name sits raised on the cuff in the stocking colour.

Test-printed before release: the first photos show the actual print (Classic 85 mm, red and white PLA, 2 colours on a Bambu Lab X2D), straight off the plate with no supports and no clean-up.

Why you will like it

• Real knit look: every stitch is modelled, so the texture catches the light like wool, even on a 0.4 nozzle at 0.20 mm layers.

• Your name, auto-fitted: short or long names are scaled to fit the cuff (up to about 10 letters), in 5 fonts.

• Prints flat on its back: no supports, no brim, nothing to glue. The pillow-shaped body is 6 mm thick and feels solid in the hand.

• 2 colours made easy: the stocking and the name in one colour, cuff, heel, toe and loop in the other. Works on dual-nozzle printers (X2D, H2D), with an AMS, or in one colour.

Customizer (OpenSCAD file included)

• Name on the cuff (leave it empty for a plain cuff).

• Font: Rounded (Fredoka), Script (Pacifico), Retro script (Lobster), Festive (Mountains of Christmas) or Clean (Poppins).

• Size: Small 64 mm, Classic 85 mm or Large 110 mm (height with the loop).

• Heel and toe in the trim colour or plain, hanging loop on or off.

• Colours for stocking and trim. Export everything, or each colour group separately.

Print files included

• Classic 85 mm with BELLA.

• Classic 85 mm with a plain cuff (no name).

• Small 64 mm with ISA.

• Large 110 mm with Isa in script.

Profiles: 2 colours for dual-nozzle printers (X2D, H2D), 2 colours with an AMS, and 1 colour. All 0.4 nozzle, 0.20 mm layers.

Printing tips

• Print it as it comes: flat on the plate, no supports, no brim, 0.20 mm layers, 15% infill.

• PLA or PETG. Red and white look classic; green, navy or gold with white work great too.

• With an AMS on a single nozzle most of the filament goes into purging. Printing several stockings on one plate makes each colour change go further.

• Thread a ribbon, twine or an ornament hook through the loop.

• Not a toy for small children: keep away from children under 3.

Files

• KNIT_STOCKING_customizer_OpenSCAD.scad + KNIT_STOCKING_fonts_for_OpenSCAD.zip (unzip it into a folder named fonts next to the .scad): open in OpenSCAD 2021.01 or newer, set Name, Font and Size in the Customizer panel, then export Export = 1 (stocking colour) and Export = 2 (trim colour).

• STL files KNIT_STOCKING_<example>_<part>.stl for Classic BELLA, Classic plain, Small ISA and Large Isa: stocking_red, trim_white (cuff, heel, toe, loop), name_red, plus a single_colour STL. All parts share the same origin.

• 3MF files: Bambu Studio projects with 4 plates each (2 colours dual nozzle, 2 colours AMS, 1 colour).

PrusaSlicer / OrcaSlicer

• Import the stocking_red STL, then right-click > Add part > Load and add the trim_white and name_red STLs. Set the trim to your second filament.

• 0.20 mm layers, 3 perimeters, 15% infill, no supports, no brim.

Support the design

Original design by A Arte De. If you print one, please post a Make and give it a Like - it helps me keep publishing free models.

NEW - Bambu Lab H3C: KNIT_STOCKING_2colour_H3C.3mf puts each colour on its own PrintTool (almost no purge), re-centred on the 330 x 320 mm H3C plate, with the official H3C machine G-code. Sliced in Bambu Studio 2.09.