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Donna Kooler's Ultimate Stocking Collection(Leisure Arts #4082)

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I LOVE CHRISTMAS! This book gives me 15 reasons to celebrate the season. There are dogs, cats, snowmen, forest animals, Christmas globes, Santas, sledding, Vintage, toys, Noah's ark, bears and, of course, the Nativity for the themes.

Each pattern is two pages so seeing the counted cross stitch graph is not too hard. A color photo accompanies each project. All you have to do to get the template for the stocking itself is enlarge one of the color photos 169%. A copy store can help with this. There are two pages of general instruction that show what the symbols mean and they also explain how to create each stitch.

My only problem was I didn't know which one to start with. Hopefully, you will be able to choose one! My needle and I will be working into the night on these wonderful projects.

This book is great. Many good ideas for making Cross Stitch Christmas Stockings. Excellent pictures and directions. Could use more books like this one. Thank You.

This cross stitch book is very nice and has easy to understand color instructions. My only disappointment is that since I could not see inside at all the available patterns to make, this book did not have what I personally was looking for. There are mostly snowy winter scenes; not quite appropriate for a child's Christmas stocking in sunny CA where the winter is only about 50 degrees, and snow an extreme rarity! This in no way should deter you from a purchase, as the designs are very beautiful, and the print is large enough to use during your project. Some very nice teen or adult patterns in here also.

I love cross stitching and wanted to make stocking for my family, since I was making multiple stocking and I wanted the backing to matching I bought this book, The stocking are cute and can range in age and gender, it even has a stocking for cats and dogs. I liked this book so much that I bought Donna Kooler's Second Edition Stocking Collection so I could make stocking for other family members.

Donna Kooler is absolutely my most favorite cross-stitch pattern designer. This book contains some of her best ideas yet. I am going to start with the "Snowglobe" pattern simply because I paged thru the book with my eyes closed and that's the one I landed on! This one is going to be for my oldest niece and it's a toss up between "Winter Fun on Ice" or "Curious Cats" for my younger niece. Donna's patterns have the easiest dirctions and graphs to work with. The *only* problem I have with this book is that the patterns are not in color. All of her other books that I have (4 total) all have the color coded graphs to follow and it makes stitching so much easier because #1-You know what color you are looking for and #2-I find it easier to count how many stitches I have to do. Bottom line is, I LOVE Donna Koolers designs and those projects always turn out beautiful! KUDOS to KOOLER!

I love the variety that this book has to offer both with respect to designs, skill levels, and time required.

To know what you're fully getting, you can see images of all 15 designs on the 123stitch website.

I stitched the Folk Art Santa Stocking and the Sledding Animals Stockings in full. I also turned part of the Gardening Santa design into an ornament and will be doing the same for the Fishing Santa.

I am very excited to see what is in the second edition due out soon.

One of my hobbies is cross-stitching Christmas stockings. This book of Donna Kooler's offers superb patterns. Victoria from MA

can not wait to get started on the stockings....the patterns can be used for all ages...which is a good thing as I make them for my grandchildren

The Stocking Collection of Donna Kooler's is a fantastic book, recommending to everyone who likes cross stitching.

Book arrived in excellent/new condition in a matter of a few days, and the price was unbeatable (half that of most other sites). The only downside to the patterns is that there is no option to "flip" the pics if you want your stocking to have the toe on the left instead of the right. Pretty simple fix with a copy machine, but would have been nice to have the option included. Great find at a great price!