Knit Christmas Stockings, 2nd Edition

Description

Make this holiday one your family will remember forever! With these 19 simple and fun patterns, even first-time knitters can create beautiful Christmas stockings for everyone on Santa's list. Gwen W. Steege offers innovative ideas for crafting unique stockings full of personality, regardless of whether you're looking for wacky or whimsical, classically beautiful or daintily darling. Transform smaller skeins and project leftovers into ministockings for pets or tree ornaments. Clear some room on the mantle and knit yourself a merry little Christmas.

Gwen W. Steege is the coauthor of The Weaving Explorer. She has been weaving for nearly 35 years and has exhibited her work in western Massachusetts, where she lives. For many years she acquired and edited a line of craft books at Storey Publishing focused on spinning, dyeing, knitting, crochet, and weaving. She is the author of a number of knitting books, including The Knitter's Life List.

...sure to inspire veteran needleworkers and woo the novice knitter. -Asbury Park Press Knit Christmas Stockings! was also featured in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Richmond Times-Dispatch and the St. Petersburg Times. "Any one of the books would make a great gift for a beginning knitter--the entire set would provide years of inspiration for any knitter." -Shuttle, Spindle Dyepot --Betsy McCarthy, author of Knit Socks!