Grandmas' Stocking Guild held the Great Reveal in late Sept. showing off more than 1,500 handmade Christmas stockings the organization made for at-risk children.
Grandmas’ Stocking Guild is a San Marcos based nonprofit group that makes Christmas stockings for abused and neglected children in the Texas Hill country.
The Great Reveal showed off the stockings and had multiple presenters on hand.
According to a press release from the nonprofit, President Joyce Eriksson told of how the group doesn’t waste any fabric and showed examples of how they take the scraps and sew them together into 'crumb' stockings. Another spoke about how these personalized stockings may be the only thing these kids have that is truly theirs as so many of them have very few personal items of their own. The intent is to let the children know that they are loved.
Now the next task for the group is to personalize the stockings with the name of each child.
“Each child's name will be placed on their stockings along with a cross reminding them they are loved by God and a tag on the back that says, 'Made with love by Grandma!” according to the press release.
Grandma’s Stocking Guild started in 2009 by Suzi Casey. The first year they provided 60 stockings. Last year, the organization provided 1,647 stockings to 19 different agencies in the Texas Hill Country.
For more information, visit grandmasstockingguild. org.
