My husband’s family have Bernat Christmas Stockings - my husband received his from his grandmother 57 years ago! Grandma Marge made them for all over her grandchildren (9 in my husband’s family alone) My mother-in-law has made them for all of her grandchildren (23) and 1 great-grandchild, plus all of us in-laws! I’ve made them for my grandchildren and children. The variations are: first band - white with red name; second band: red with three green Christmas trees; third band: green with two white candles on red candleholders; fourth band: white with green wreath. After that, the rest of the stocking (heel and toe) are exactly the same. After it’s all knit and blocked, but before sewn together, we “decorate” the tree with sequins and the wreath with “yule berries” and a red bow.
My husband’s stocking is the smallest of all the stockings - no matter who knit the others. The rest all seem to be about the same size, generally.
I am sooo tempted to use your pattern - just to change things up a bit, but I hate to mess with tradition!
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