Ideas for Christmas Stockings
Christmas stockings can be brought from stores, or sewed or crocheted or knitted at home to any size for accommodating the gifts. Stores have designer Christmas stockings and standard ones, and many stores will customize and personalize stockings according to your need. Stockings vary a lot, based on their color, size, material, and design.
Embroidered Christmas stockings
Embroidering increases the aesthetic appeal of stockings. In olden days women embroidered stockings during the Christmas season for all members of the family. Christmas stars and bells and flowers were the embroidery motifs in those days. Nowadays stores display stockings embroidered with a wide range of motifs that will include winter scenes and angels and fairy tale characters and table spreads. Stockings embroidery kits are also available for those who want to do it at home.
Vintage Christmas Stockings
Vintage stockings are like antiques. They are precious because they are stockings from another era and have been preserved with minimum damage. Some families will have their own vintage stockings that have come down through generations. Stores also collect them from many sources and sell them at a high price. Red and green are the commonly seen colors in vintage stockings, and many monogrammed stockings have also survived.
Designer Christmas Stockings
Just like designer clothes, stores sell designer Christmas stockings also. The stitching style and pattern of a pair of designer stockings will be unique enough to ensure that there is no other copy of it. Designer stockings are bought for hanging near the fireplace for Santa to fill in, or for gifting.
Hand Knit Christmas Stockings
Hand-knitted stockings may be done with cross-stitch designs, or may be needlepoint stockings or felt stockings. Together with felt stockings, many shops offer personalization kits containing sequins, trims, needles, beads, and instructions for modifying the stockings according to personal preferences.
And finally there will not be a shop that does not have its quota of dog Christmas stockings. You can have a special stocking for your dog, a big one if you have a German Shepherd, or a small one if you own a tiny Pomeranian. You can get a personalized stocking or a monogrammed one for your pet.
Each family may have its own Christmas stockings tradition. Every home will not have a fireplace, so families make it a practice to hang stockings on bed post or window sill or door handle. Christmas stockings fuel the imagination of children. Hanging a stocking, which the child expects Santa Claus to fill up, is an occasion when the child comes closest to believing that his hopes are bound to be fulfilled. For that, it is worth keeping the tradition alive.
Personalized Christmas Stockings
Find unique personalized Christmas Stockings at Personalization Mall.