My children now have their own stockings! I finished these up last night. The last couple of Christmas' Olivia has been using my childhood stocking. Jackson was two months old last Christmas so I didn't think he would mind if he didn't have one at all. I've been stocking hunting for my kids for the last two years and never found one that I liked enough to buy. Now that I sew I decided to make them myself. I used a vintage pattern that my grandmother handed down to me and modified it. I also used a Pottery Barn Kids stocking as inspiration. I'm really happy with how these turned out. Olivia really likes hers, I hope Jackson does too. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but my husband was quite impressed. In fact he said they were amazing! Compliments like that don't come by too often so I figured I'd bask for a little bit :).
*Sorry the pictures aren't that great, though I'm liking the fake "mom said to smile so I'm smiling" smile that Olivia is wearing.
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Those are awesome! You are SO allowed to toot your own horn :-)
they are beautiful. what kind of fabric did you use? did you add the ribbon/ric-rac/etc? be proud!
What wonderful stockings! I think it was cool that your daughter was using your old stockings before. I'm sure she'll treasure this new one for years.
Katie
Just stumbled on your blog for the first time. I am so so in love with your stockings! I have store bought ones for my husband and I that are similar but have a baby on the way and would LOVE to make these. Any way you could tell me how you did it? Especially love the personalization :) You really did an amazing job!
Kassie-
Thanks so much for stopping by my little blog :). These were inspired by the Pottery Barn ribbon stockings (which change a bit each year). I basically just quilted on the ribbon. So I had a foundation fabric piece in red, one layer of batting, and a piece of backing fabric. I pinned everything together including the ribbon and sewed through all the layers following the edge of the ribbon. The back of the stockings are just two pieces of fabric with one layer of batting and vertical quilting stitches. Put pieces right sides together and then turned it right side out, not worrying about the exposed seams on the inside. The names are just embroidered with a chain stitch I believe, it was one of my first attempts at embroidery. Hope that helps!
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