Stockings: Hang left or right?
Jenn Vanderslice
;-)
Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
Love,
Jenn
Donna B. McBryde
pointed to the left. However, I have 2 that are crocheted in a tartan-type
pattern - no real front or back design - and I hang them on each end of my
mantle pointed towards the center. Looks like those with a definite front
design are mostly made with the
toe facing left. I don't think there's a "rule", really.
Maybe someone else has a story about it?
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Donna McBryde =^..^=
www.mcbryde.com
bds-pds
Beale sampler stockings for my hearth as the children move out and take
their needlepoint ones I designed for them. I will eventually have lots and
lots of the sampler stockings on my hearth as the family grows and they will
all point left!
I feel that it really doesn't matter as long as they all go the same way,
especially since they will all coordinate.
By the way, I have one done and 4 more to make immediately. whew.
Kindred spirit, barbara
who had the pleasure to design and make a sock for the new son in law who
never owned one, a Christmas tree skirt for their first Christmas box that
includes a skirt, all the ornaments designated since she was born so 22)
etal.
Donna B. McBryde wrote in message
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Susan G. Capps, Ph.D.
the toe goes toward your right hand (so I guess that means they point
left???)
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and the ones from the Better Homes and Garden set face the opposite way...
so I guess it doesn't really matter, just what you like. But if you're going
to hang them all up together, IMNTBHO they'd look better chugging along the
same way...
Susan
Jenn Vanderslice
http://members.tripod.com/Gwenevere/polls/
This is just curiosity on my part :-) I'm making stockings this year and
the pictures show the toes pointing down to the right >>....but the first
one I crocheted, looked better on the reverse side....so the toe points
left now! I was curious as to whether there was a majority on either
direction. I know that there is no rule...
Love,
Jenn
wol...@pacbell.net
>Now this may seem like a really ridicules question....but I'm serious!
>;-)
>Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
There are lots of stockings, XS and needlepoint, to be seen online. Some point
to the left while others point to the right. When I think of the concept of
Christmas stockings, the hazy one in my tiny little mind points to the left,
maybe because my childhood stocking did. But my very favorite stocking design
points to the right.
Nan Evelyn
Liesch
> ;-)
> Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
This is strictly a matter of personal preference. I have an old catalog
from Stoney Creek that shows almost 100 stockings (cross stitch,
needlepoint, crewel, ribbon embroidery, felt applique). Some pointed left
and some pointed right. Some folks like to have the stockings on the right
side of the fireplace point left and the ones on the left side of the
fireplace point right. Others like to have all their stockings point the
same way. There is no rule on this - just personal preference. If you find
a stocking that is pointing the opposite of the way you want it to (and it
is a cross stitched stocking), you can go to a place that does copies and
have a reverse copy of your chart made. The symbols will be reversed too,
but a printed out reversed chart is easier to stitch from than trying to
reverse the chart in your head while you stitch.
Rita Liesch
CF
Jenn Vanderslice <csl...@chesco.com> wrote in message
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> Now this may seem like a really ridicules question....but I'm serious!
> ;-)
> Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
>
> Jenn
>
I have 2 which hang left & 3 which hang right!! That's the way the patterns
were & I didn't think about reversing them when I made them.
Candi
Dorita Menconi
>
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> so I guess it doesn't really matter, just what you like. But if you're going
> to hang them all up together, IMNTBHO they'd look better chugging along the
> same way...
> Susan
>
> >;-)
> >Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
> >
> >Love,
> >Jenn
> >
Or you may have to get creative. My mom made stockings for
the kids which both point left. I bought and made a kit for
DH two years ago without thinking about it and his goes the
other way. I have finally found a stocking that I like
(Guinevere's Stocking by Terry Albright in the Oct/Nov '99
issue of The NeedleWorker) and am going to make sure it
points the same way as DH's stocking. I figure the kids
will take theirs with them when they move out but ours will
be together for quite a while :)
Dorita
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My idea of doing housework is to sweep the room with a
glance.
Gemini
seen in books with patterns are very lacy... pretty for hanging, but
couldn't really hold anything, if you wanted them to. I'd be very
interested in a tightly crocheted stocking that you could put small
"stocking stuffer" gifts in. :o)
Peace! Gemini in Ontario, Canada
http://members.xoom.com/planetgemini/
PS. I don't think the direction matters too much, it depends how you feel
they look! :o)
Jenn Vanderslice <csl...@chesco.com> wrote in article
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Jenn Vanderslice
I'm using Leisure Arts, Leaflet 2674, Crocheted Christmas Stockings (1995).
Actually, I'm quite impressed....they're not real fancy, but they are sturdy
enough for my children. They're all doubled crocheted rounds with different
cuffs, color patterns or motifs.
Love,
Jenn
KEJ/MJJ
Christmas stocking for my daughter-in-love....similar to the one I made 34
years ago for her husband!
Her name is on the "right" side and year of birth on the "back". The
pattern has an angel on both sides, then a row of holly and berries, next
are small Christmas trees on both front and back, that I will decorate with
stars and sequins and on the instep there is a green wreath with a red bow.
The background color fluctuates between red, white and green. A really fun
labor of love.
Marilyn
Jenn Vanderslice wrote in message <38301EBF...@chesco.com>...
Diana McDonald
How is the date of birth on the back? I'm having a hard time envisioning it.
Nan
Seanette Blaylock
wrote:
>Now this may seem like a really ridicules question....but I'm serious!
>;-)
>Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
The two in my in-progress stack [two copies of the same Bucilla felt
applique kit] point right, and IIRC, nearly all the stockings MIL
hangs each year [accumulated over a period of years] point right.
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Seanette Blaylock
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Laurie Graham
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> Now this may seem like a really ridicules question....but I'm serious!
> ;-)
> Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
>
> Jenn
Half to the left, half to the right. I like things to be balanced :)
Laurie
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Sherry
all point right and my brother has his poinitng both directions.
Sherry
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Donna S
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I love the picture Susan!
Of course if it is officially supposed to face the other way, I'm used to
that. A pet peeve of mine- seeing the U.S. Flag backwards.
Donna S
Elizabeth Naime
dancers (ballet hose), medival-renaissance re-enactors, and people who
want LOTS of stocking stuffers and don't care who thinks them greedy.
Hmm, that would fit a LOT of the folks I know! ;-)
for the rest, how about the "Christmas Tube Sock"? Or does that just not
do it for the traditionalists?
Elizabeth Naime
wol...@pacbell.net
Or just replace the O with an A: Christmas Sack, and proportion it according to
wish list length. That would certainly give a stitcher a lot of scope, and there
wouldn't be any problem with tweaking the design to fit onto an odd shape.
:-))))
Nan Evelyn
Gemini
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> The DOUBLE stockings should be called "Christmas Hose" and restricted to
> dancers (ballet hose), medival-renaissance re-enactors, and people who
> want LOTS of stocking stuffers and don't care who thinks them greedy.
> Hmm, that would fit a LOT of the folks I know! ;-)
>
> for the rest, how about the "Christmas Tube Sock"? Or does that just not
> do it for the traditionalists?
You know, now that I think of it... When my siblings and I were little our
Christmas stockings consisted of one of our mom's nylon stockings, filled
with fruit (an orange, apple, banana and grapes), a candy cane, a few mixed
nuts still in the shells, and a small bag of Christmas candy. They were
carefully filled because they weren't old nylons, they would be used by my
mother at a later date... and they were simply placed under the Christmas
tree with our gifts, not hung at all. :o)
Laurie Graham
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> In article <383185...@earthlink.net>, Laurie Graham
> <dbgr...@earthlink.net> writes
> >Jenn Vanderslice wrote:
> >>
> >> Now this may seem like a really ridicules question....but I'm serious!
> >> ;-)
> >> Which direction do the toes of your Xmas stockings point?
> >>
> >> Love,
> >> Jenn
> >
> >
>
>
> How about a *double* stocking to keep everyone happy?
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> ...would you like that, Laurie? ;-)
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> Chris
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Well, if I have another child I'll consider it :) So far there's just
the 4 of us, and any "extras" have come in even #s. A word of warning to
new parents, tho -- those huge stockings look really cute, but remember
you'll have to fill them year after year! And you'll have to get any
following siblings stockings the same size!