Santa Claus And His Bag Of Gifts

This is one of the best Santa Claus patterns I've ever seen.  There is another one that I've done several times to give as gifts, but I have yet to tackle this one.  Maybe this year!  An alternative set of numbers for new years wasn't provided, but I don't think it would be difficult to change them to the current year. (Update, I just designed numerals based on this pattern and added them below so people can insert any year they like.)

Woops, looks like I need to make more of a difference between the 5 and the 6!