The swatch
Before a stocking, a knitter makes a small test square to check her gauge. This is the site's. Every pattern on the site is a knitting chart that could be knitted: two colors to a row, no strand carried more than 5 stitches, and every repeat fits the 72 stitches around a stocking leg so it closes without a jog.
The stitch
A knit stitch is wider than it is tall: about 7 by 5. Every grid here uses that shape.
Seven ways to repeat a band
A band that repeats along a strip can only be symmetric in seven ways. Here is one small motif put through all seven.
A tree peerie
Advent
Advent starts December 1. Until then the band is cast on and waiting. The site knits one row a day, from the bottom up, the way a chart is read.