Sunday, December 13, 2015

Largest Christmas stocking: 1,600-Pound Stocking breaks Guinness World Records record (VIDEO)

    Fayetteville, N.C., USA -- The world's largest Christmas stocking – a 1,600-pound, 7,700-square-foot behemoth that took more than a year to create – was unveiled Saturday evening at Fayetteville's Arnette Park; the stocking, which is 139 feet tall and 74 feet wide, was created over the last 13 months with yarn from Caron United, a Washington, N.C.-based company, according to the World Record Academy .

Photo: The world's largest Christmas stocking – a 1,600-pound, 7,700-square-foot behemoth that took more than a year to create – was unveiled Saturday evening at Fayetteville's Arnette Park.
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The Guinness World Records world record for the largest Christmas stocking measured 51 m 35 cm (168 ft 5.65 in) in length and 21 m 63 cm (70 ft 11.57 in) in width (heel to toe) and was produced by the volunteer emergency services organisation Pubblica Assistenza Carrara e Sezioni (Italy) in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, on 5 January 2011.

     Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest Christmas bauble ornament; it is 4.58 m (15 ft 0.31 in) in diameter and was achieved by Birra Forst SpA (Italy) as measured on 27 November 2014. The bauble weighs a total of 481 kg, and was created for the Forst Brewery's annual Christmas market.

    Knitters from all 50 states, four Canadian provinces and Ireland helped create the record-setting stocking by donating 3-foot- by 3-foot swatches of knitted yard, and Caron donated part of the proceeds from yarn sales to provide more than $100,000 for scholarships for children of fallen U.S. troops.

    A surveying crew measured the stocking. It took 13 months to put it all together.

     The stocking was created with yarn from Caron United. The Washington, North Carolina-based company donated part of the proceeds from yarn sales to provide more than $100,000 for scholarships for the children of U.S. military members who have died.