This book will help create new decorations for your home, gifts or craft sales. Some of the patterns will make elegant additions to your home decor while others are just whimsical and festive for the child in you - or your family.

There are more than 20 items to decorate your home and tree with the holiday spirit. Knit tree skirts, tree ornaments and toppers, table decorations, gift bags and more. Just use your leftovers and imagination to create wonderful decorations or gifts.

These patterns were written for 4-ply yarns on Japanese and Chinese standard gauge punchcard or electronic machines. But some are written for the mid-gauge machines as well.

This 28-page book has a colour cover and spiral binding with detailed instructions and design charts.
Patterns include:
• Appliqued Christmas Stockings • Paneled Tree Skirt • Shortrowed Tree Skirt
• Tiny Stockings • Braided Wreaths in two styles • Wreath with Lace • Ball Ornaments • Garter Bar Balls • Bell Ornaments • Mr. & Mrs. Claus • Cornucopia
• Clothes-peg Angel • Christmas Angel • Snowman • Santa Claus • Elf • Tiny Sacks
• Woven Placemats • Woven Coasters • Wine Gift Bags • Gift Bags in two styles
• Bows

$18.95 includes shipping within North America

Santa's Stocking Workshop - Eileen Montgomery

Combine this book with your creativity and imagination to knit unique Christmas stockings. They can be simple or fancy; silly or elegant; traditional or avant garde. There are no limits to the design possibilities!

This book has stockings made with five different construction methods for both single and double beds. The bodies and cuffs can be knit in a variety of stitches. Embellishments on these stockings are limited only by your imagination!

The cuffs can be knit in stocking stitch, fairisle, machine knit lace with or without contrast lining, ribbing (plain or fancy), mock rib, fabric or purchased lace, etc. The stockings may be finished with bobbles, embroidery, beads, sequins, flowers, ribbons, appliqués, crayons, paints, glitter, miniature ornaments, bells, music buttons, miniature lights, etc. Just take a walk through a craft store and use your imagination!

There are eleven patterns in a variety of stitches and embellishments with lots of ideas for creating your own special stockings. There are also three pages of Christmas designs for you to use.
The Construction Methods: (each in three sizes)

1. The Flat Stocking is the easiest with simple increases and decreases used to shape the foot.
2. The Cut & Sew Stocking is the one to choose when knitting a fabric where shaping would be time-consuming. It can be worked from the foot up or the cuff down.
3. The Stocking knit from the Foot Up is my favorite. Of the three shaped stockings, this is the easiest to knit. The shaping for the foot is completed before the main sections of the stocking are knit.
4. The Stocking knit from the Cuff Down is the most common method of shaping a stocking.
5. The Circular Stocking has the leg knit on two beds with the foot shaping done on the main bed. It is knit from the cuff down.

This 30-page book has a color cover and spiral binding with detailed instructions, charts and diagrams.

Although these patterns were written for 4-ply yarns on Japanese and Chinese standard gauge punchcard or electronic machines, they can be easily adapted for use on mid-gauge or bulky machines.

$18.95 includes shipping within North America

More than 60 designs taken from the books "Santa's Stocking Workshop" and "Christmas Crafts" on 1 CD in DesignaKnit's .pat format.

Using DAK6 or 7, you can easily use these designs on your electronic machines without the need to enter them yourself. Use the features of the program to utilize the designs any way you wish. DAK will print out templates for use with other machines.

Most of the designs are fairisle with a few intarsia, tuck and weaving patterns included.

$12.00 includes shipping within North America