Win Yarn to Knit Christmas Stockings: Enter by 11/15
October 24, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Heather Eng
We’re giving away enough yarn to make a granny square or striped stocking! Just leave a comment below telling us your family’s favorite holiday tradition. Ten lucky winners will randomly be selected to receive 3 skeins of yarn, each. Read official rules here.
Did you know: All three stockings were inspired by patterns first featured in Family Circle 34 years ago. Want proof? Check out this scan from our December 1977 issue.
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Get step-by-step instructions for making all three stockings.
Upload photos of your finished stockings here. We’d love to have a look at your handiwork!
Learn more about Lion Brans yarns at lionbrand.com.
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Will be starting new traditions this year due to the death of my mom. Will be a missed traditions spending the holidays at parents home and now that will no longer be since both passed on.
My sister and I get together for a cookie making day. We spend the day together and make dozens of cookies. We have enjoy each others company and time together.
I recongnized the pattern right away! My mother-in-law made these stocking in 1977 to celebrate my husbands first Christmas as a baby. She made another in 1980, for his brother, and one for me after I got married. She still has the original directions and amazingly found them when it was time to make my stocking. What a way to be welcomed to a family for my first Christmas away from my own family. I’m blessed for sure.
The one tradition we do is make tamales on christmas eve which takes all the family to make them and its fun because even the younger children get into it.
Every year i write a letter to my 2 sons and my husband about their accomplishments & events thru the year then i share my hopes and dreams for them for the future,the funny thing is that each year it changes as i see them grow & mature,This has become more important to me since i became ill and have had transplant surgery because i now see things differently,i look forward to writing this letter every year,last year i didn’t get a chance to write it because i was in a coma, this years letter will be very long(smile).
My family bakes sugar cookies together and we decorate them with frosting and candies,watch a christmas movie and tell the night before christmas story
Grandmother started the tradition of making a Christmas stocking for each child born in the family. She is in heaven now, watching, as I continue the tradition. This year I have 2 new great-grandchildren for whom to make stockings. I hope that I win the yarn!
i try to get my family understand the idea of christmas, that it is not about the presents and money, but about christ and love. we go to church and then come back and eat at night, trying to spot the Bethlehem star in the sky, then take a little nap and celebrate durring the day with more people coming over
Santa always came to out house Christmas Eve afternoon. In December of ’72 you published crochet patterns for stockings, which I made…(and am still making). Santa wrapped all the stocking gifts and we would spend a long time time “guessing” what each item was. The stockings are very roomy and stretched so there were always a lot of items in each. Of all your patterns, the ones from ’72 are my favorites. I still have the original page from that issue, complete with an ad for Harvest Gold appliances on the reverse side.
Our favorite family Christmas tradition is opening our Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve.