The Girls Handmade Christmas Stockings

Tis the season for creative Christmas crafting and when carving out a little me time recently my thoughts have been on a festive project. Last year I created these Santa sacks for my daughters and this year I decided to undertake another creation - these handmade stockings. 

What do you do with a pile of outgrown Christmas clothes? The answer I came up with was to create these hand sewn festive stockings. 

Craft Components

To Create These Homemade Christmas Stockings You Will Need:

• Material
• A stocking
• An Unpicking Tool
• Cotton
• Scissors
• Pins 
• Needle
• Ribbon
• Bias Binding

Now for the Fun Part

In order to make these stockings you first need to unpick the clothes that the children have outgrown. Once this is done you can sew the front of the outfit to the stocking. I bought the stocking from a well known craft store but if you are not pushed for time you can easily make your own. My girls had two penguin vests so I made the penguin feature on the front of each of their stockings. 

Having decided that I would like to create a patchwork backing for the stocking. I made the remaining fabric into patches using pins and square cut cardboard to aid in piecing it all together. Once it was all sewn up I added the bias binding around the edges of the stocking and below you can see what the finished patchwork stocking looks like.

The last thing to do on the stocking was to add the tutu on the front a feature that the vest originally had too. I also added ribbon around the top of the stocking et voilà one finished handmade project. Of course if you are a fan of the sewing machine then you could make this project quicker. You could also embellish this differently after all:

"We're only limited by our imagination" - Bob Ross

Now the stockings are created there's one thing left to do and that's leave them out for Santa to fill them. If you try this at home I'd love to see what you create. Merry Christmas lovely readers x