veryone knows you don’t need a fireplace mantel to hang a stocking. All you need is a spot where Santa won’t miss it.
With today’s eye-catching stocking designs, it’s doubtful that will happen. There are patterns to please every person in the house. And every pet as well.
Fashionable flashback: Carrie Guzzino of Amherst crafts stockings like this from vintage table linens; $14 at washmycloth.etsy.com.
In stitches: Needlepoint stocking in houndstooth pattern will jazz up any mantel; $29.50 at www.landsend.com.
High note: Stylish best describes this waiting-to-be-stuffed stocking; $35. See www.pier1.com for availability.
Fun and festive: A stocking embellished with ornament appliques and a pompom also has a spot to write a name; $19.99 from Woyshner’s Christmas Shoppe, Lackawanna.
Hello kitty: A mouse and ball of yarn will surely make Santa smile; $19.99 from Woyshner’s Christmas Shoppe, 880 Ridge Road, Lackawanna. Stocking has a dry-erase plaque for a name.