[Nfb-krafters-korner] Crocheted Stocking Pattern

[Theresa Taylor]

A big one and you don't have to have it exact...I am just curious the 
general pattern and I can adjust the size. Crocheting and I are best 
friends...smile!
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 11:05 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Crocheted Stocking Pattern


> Theresa,
>
> It is one of those things I just know how to do. But, I could write one 
> out after Christmas if you wanted. Do you want a big one or an ornament 
> size? I'll get measurements.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Theresa Taylor
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:56 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FB: Holiday Craft Traditions
>
> 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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