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Everyone Loves Christmas Stockings

Dec 4th, 2008 by admin

A Stocking Filled with Love

Everyone loves Christmas stockings from toddlers to teenagers, even adults love to receive a Christmas stocking full of carefully thought out treats!
Just think of all the small treasures you can pop into a stocking, not just chocolates and sweets or toys and money. You can pop in anything small that your loved one would like.

It’s the Thought that Makes it so Special

Maybe some jewellery, or some beads, some buttons and ribbons for the sewing enthusiast, some pens or pastels for the arty person, some tennis balls or golf balls and tees for the sportsman, CD’s for the music lover.
All sorts of different items can be hidden inside a stocking, and wouldn’t it be so much more personal if you made the stocking yourself.

Here’s How
Stockings are quick, easy and fun to make, you can use Christmas fabric or plain fabric in Christmas colours i.e red, gold and green.
There is so much fun to be had trimming the stocking. Ribbons, bells, pom poms, braid, buttons etc all make great trimmings.
You could even make a selection of stockings and then re-trim them each year to make them different!

Here are some stockings I made earlier on, they didn’t take long.

All you have to do is fold your chosen fabric in two right sides together and cut out a stocking shape. then choose some other fabric for the lining and again fold in half right sides together and cut out a stocking shape. You now have four stocking shapes.

Sew the lining stockings together rights sides together and then sew the outer pieces together right sides together.

Turn the stockings rights side out and put the stocking lining inside the stocking wrong sides facing and taking a narrow seam ( 3/8thsof an inch) sew around the top of the stocking through all thicknesses.

Next, from a contrasting fabric cut a strip approx 3 1/2 ” wide by the circumference of the top of the stocking plus 1/2″ and join the two ends together taking a 1/4″ seam. Turn under 1/4″ and sew.

Attach the strip to the inside of the stocking( right sides facing the lining) and stitch taking a narrow seam. Turn the contrasting strip to the outside forming a cuff.