If you’d like to create beautiful, personalized, unique Christmas stockings without paying a fortune, then this might be the most important letter you’ll ever read.

My name is Kathi Garcia. I’m not a professional ad writer. I’m just a girl who grew up with a mom who made Christmas morning extra special.

When my two sisters and I were little, my mom created beautiful knitted Christmas stockings for us to hang on the mantle on Christmas Eve. Every year, the Christmas season would officially begin when those stockings hung cheerily in front of the fireplace waiting for Santa to come down the chimney and stuff them with goodies.

Each stocking sported a different pattern, and each one had our name knitted proudly into the top. Other Christmas decorations were family property, but those stockings were our very own.

Eventually we grew up, moved away, and started families of our own. But the story doesn’t end there. My wonderful mother kept making Christmas stockings. First for our husbands, then for our children.

But mom ran into a problem. You see, she couldn’t find any knitted Christmas stocking patterns that she liked. After a great deal of searching, she gave up and created her own. Which was a wonderful development for us, because that meant we got cuter stockings. And besides that, they were completely unique.

For years, my mother kept those patterns exclusively for her personal use. Now finally, we’ve convinced her to share her creations with the world.