Make holiday keepsakes for family friends pets. Christmas stockings are a speciality of mine, says designer Mickey Landau. In The Stockings Were Knit, Mickey shares eight of her festive designs, with styles for everyone in the family- including the pets The stockings can be displayed with the toe at right or at left, because the cuffs show the same design on both sides. Special finishing touches for some of the stockings include embroidery and duplicate stitch.