{"id":588,"date":"2012-01-06T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designneedlepointkits.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-01-06T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:10:12","slug":"needlepoint-christmas-stocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlepaint.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/needlepoint-christmas-stocking\/","title":{"rendered":"A War and Peace Needlepoint Christmas Stocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks before Christmas, my daughter-in-law finally finished the needlepoint design<\/a> for her daughter’s (my grand-daughter’s) needlepoint Christmas stocking<\/a>.\u00a0 So, I put the canvas on my Victorian stretcher frame<\/a>, began leafing through my favorite needlepoint books ( The Needlepoint Book<\/a><\/strong> by Jo Ippolito Christensen and A Pageant of Pattern for Needlepoint Canvas<\/strong> by Sherlee Lantz), and began stitching like mad.<\/p>\n

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Zoe's Personalized Needlepoint Stocking - BEAUTIFUL!!! (Click on Photo to Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, not that fast! I took some time to picking out the stitches while I downloaded from my local public library the audio recording of War and Peace<\/strong> by Leo Tolstoy by Blackstone Audio, Inc. Downloadable audio books which can be listened to on your computer, MP3 player, or iPod has allowed me to combine creative stitchery and literature and learning.<\/p>\n

War and Peace<\/strong> was 60 hours and 42 minutes long and I finished listening to Tolstoy a couple hours before I finished the stocking. Thus, I have termed the project the Ware and Peace Stocking. Similarly, an afghan which I knitted for a wedding present became The Children’s Book<\/strong> Afghan and I sent a copy the book by A.S. Byatt as an additional gift. Both books are long and dense. I found them much more enjoyable as audio presentations as I stitched away than they would have been had I read the written words. I remember that the first time I read War and Peace<\/strong> in 1968, it took me the entire summer!<\/p>\n

Coming soon details of some of the unusual stitches I used on my Ware and Peace Stocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks before Christmas, my daughter-in-law finally finished the needlepoint design for her daughter’s (my grand-daughter’s) needlepoint Christmas stocking.\u00a0 So, I put the canvas on my Victorian stretcher frame, began leafing through my favorite needlepoint books ( The Needlepoint Book by Jo Ippolito Christensen and A Pageant of Pattern for Needlepoint Canvas by Sherlee Lantz), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,21],"tags":[81,106,135,233,260,303,307],"yoast_head":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\r\n