[Nfb-krafters-korner] FB: Holiday Craft Traditions

[Theresa Taylor]

Dixie....what an awesome tradition and what a story. Lol....kids never come 
when they are supposed to.
Greg, do you have a pattern for the crocheted one?
Theresa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FB: Holiday Craft Traditions


> Dixie,
>
> That is so wonderful. Thanks for sharing about those stockings.
>
> I crochet stockings which are big enough to put things in. My Mother asked 
> for one and I thought she had one. So, that year, I made her one! Her 
> health had declined to a point that I had to help her pull out her item 
> but it was easier than wrapping paper and I fulfilled a wish. I wish I had 
> that very one but still make them by the same pattern today.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Dixie
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:41 PM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FB: Holiday Craft Traditions
>
> I think I have shared here the tradition my mother-in-law started.  Each
> Thanksgiving she gave each family a handmade Christmas ornament that she, 
> or
> she and I had created together.
>
> I also have hand knit Christmas stockings my Grandmother knit for each of
> us.
> She also made these Christmas stockings for each member of the family, no
> two are the same.  She got the pattern, but in order to make each one
> different she charted out some of her own motif designs.    There are 4
> bands on each stocking, the top most band has the person's name, then the
> next two bands have a motif, for example, one has a Christmas tree, 
> another
> has a sail boat, another has a poinsettia, another a rocking horse, etc.
> So, each stocking has 2 different motifs, one for each of the next two
> bands.  The lowest band, which is around the ankle says noel on each of 
> the
> adult's stockings.  On the stockings she made for the babies when they
> joined the family, as they were born she would instead of Noel she would 
> put
> in the year.
> She started this tradition the year my daughter was due.  My daughter was
> her first Great Grandchild.    That Christmas my Grandmother had made one
> for me, and one for my husband.  She had also made one stocking for the 
> baby
> that was coming.  She had knit from the toe up leaving only the name to be
> knit in  when the baby arrived. . My daughter was due December 18.   She 
> had
> knit in the year on the ankle  band.  As I said, my daughter was due
> December 18.  My daughter was 2 weeks late...  yup, you got it, she didn't
> arrive until January 1.  The next year.  So, my Grandmother had to rip all
> the way back down to the ankle and redo the year.
>
> Last year I had a friend make one of these stockings for my son-in-law, 
> who
> joined our family last year.
>
> So, as each person joins the family, he or she too will have one of these
> hand knit stockings.
>
>
>
> Merry Christmas!
> Dixie
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