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Those are beautiful! I always meant to make some for my kids. However they are all now grown up in their own homes. I have not cross stitched in about 13 years.

Bobbielinks,

I wanted to tell you how beautiful I think your stockings are. These must represent a lot of your time. I cross-stitch too, so I know how long it takes to do this. These are stunning! Sharon

Those are truly beautiful! When my daughters were little I used the counted cross stitch patterns to make needle point stockings for my daughters. They are no where near as detailed as yours.

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Originally Posted by QuiltingVagabond (Post 7169616)

I also have made counted cross stitch stockings for my family, 9 so far plus 3 or 4 others for my siblings children.
And the eyes are going too, the last stocking was on navy 18 ct aida and I had to change it to 14 ct to even begin to see it LOL.
Cataract surgery is in my future and I can't wait!

Hope your cataract surgery has be done and you are back to doing a lot of quilty, sewing and cross stitching!

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Originally Posted by BCM (Post 7170878)

Beautiful!!!

Where do you find your patterns?

Some I found at Hobby Lobby, some at Joanne's, other were ordered online. Now is a good time to order online, as there are sales going on. I have a new great grandson, so I need to be thinking about another one to do.

I can't imagine how many hours went into those stockings! Such a treasure for everyone!

Those are beautiful... sooo many stitches!

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Originally Posted by Bobbielinks (Post 7709800)

Hope your cataract surgery has be done and you are back to doing a lot of quilty, sewing and cross stitching!

Bobbielinks, no surgery yet, the eye doc says the cataracts are not ready yet. But I can definitely not see as well as I did even a year ago.
As an update, we had a sump failure in our basement in June 2015, but didn't realize that the plastic tub holding most of my Christmas linens (including 5 of the family cross-stitched stockings) had a crack in the bottom.
We discovered it in Dec '15 and had to throw out all those handmade keepsakes.
I managed to finish one of the damaged ones for my DGS. Here are pics of the original and the replacement.
I did the replacement in needlepoint as I knew I could not see well enough to make the original in ccs on dark aida again.
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I did personalize the new one replacing the girl with his dogs and the vintage toys with a Minion and a soccer ball LOL.

Wow, those are gorgeous! I used to do counted cross stitch. Lots of work.

Fabulous! I had a full time job back when we were adding family members, so I felt I had no time to spare. I admire your beautiful work and the hours invested. I'm embaressed to tell you all I bought fuzzy stockings at Target and used paint to write their names on the cuff. How bad is that ??