The Stockings Are Hung By the Games With Care

Happy Saturday, y’all! Today, I wanted to share my family’s stockings. I’ve been talking about them for a couple of months. Each stocking is handmade, and the designs reflect the individual. While we have a fireplace, there’s no mantel to hang the stockings from. So, the stockings are hung by the games with care in our house.

The two “ingredients” used to make the stockings are plastic canvas and yarn. Each stocking uses the same basic pattern from a 1990s pattern book. Most of the stitches I used on the stockings were from a couple of needlepoint books. The fonts for the names came from a pattern book that focused on fonts.

My stocking is an assortment of blues, as blue is my favorite color. My husband’s stocking is made of a variegated yarn that he liked the look of. The square and the letters are stitched in glow-in-the-dark yarn. A funny note about my husband’s stocking is that the back is backward. What I mean is that I stitched it on the wrong side and didn’t realize it until I was ready to assemble it.

Rose is my youngest daughter and the owner of the first stocking I made. I finished it just in time for her first Christmas in 2008. A wide variety of stitches are used to make the stocking. Over the years, she’s asked if I would make her a stocking that is true to her and not my opinion of her. I keep pointing out that the stockings took a lot of time to make, but she still grumbles about it.

Ava is my oldest daughter. I made her stocking in 2009. Her favorite thing has always been John Deere, so her stocking is green and yellow. The stitches I used remind me of a freshly worked field.

This stocking is the most recent addition to the collection. Remy is my daughter-in-law. I felt bad that she was using a generic stocking I had made a few years ago. Remy’s favorite character is Kirby. The colors I used were from a color palette for Kirby’s Epic Yarn.

That’s my family’s stockings hung by the games with care, waiting for Santa to visit. Of course, mine already contains a small item. It drives my daughter crazy that I’m ok with waiting until Christmas morning. What about your stockings? Are they hung yet, by the fireplace or somewhere else?

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