I made some DIY stockings a few years ago with some red and cream chevron duck cloth fabric when chevron was everywhere and loved by most. Like many, I have found myself trading in my chevron appeal for greek, mosaic or plaid patterns. When I opened up my Christmas decoration totes this year, I found myself very disappointed in my stockings when I saw them. So, I decided to start fresh!
Supplies:
- Fabric Drop cloth (4×5 feet) $5.98 at Lowe’s. (enough to make 5 stockings)
- Cheap red fabric for lining approx 1.5 yards (I had some on hand already.)
- Desired fabric for cuff approx less than 1 yard (I chose a red plaid from JoAnn’s and used a 50% off coupon!
- Pom Pom trim – approx 1.5 yards
- Scissors
- pins
- sewing machine (you could always hot glue or bond it together if you aren’t sewing savvy
Instructions:
The easiest way to do this is to use an old stocking to trace and use for your template. I do not have exact measurements to give you. For each stocking you will need four of each cut out: 2 of the drop cloth, and two of the lining. I HIGHLY recommend if you don’t use drop cloth, to get a double sided fabric. It was a bit challenging to keep the front/back/left/right/inside out pieces right when I crafted stockings 3 years ago. By choosing a double sided fabric like the drop cloth and the red fabric for the lining, it made things a little easier!
I used this tutorial to help me through this! http://www.positivelysplendid.com/christmas-stocking-pattern/
- Cut 2 pieces of drop cloth and 2 pieces of lining.
- Place the 2 lining pieces on the OUTSIDE (like sandwich bread) and the 2 drop cloth pieces on the INSIDE, as pictured.
- Pin these together and sew all around the edges, leaving the top open.
- Measure out your cuff piece. Make it as close to EXACTLY the width of the top of your stocking. Make the cuff piece height double what you want the height of your cuff to be once it is folded over.
- Fold this piece length-wise (hot dog) and sew the two ends together, forming a tube
- Wrap this around the top of your pinned stocking. Your folded over edge should be pointing down towards the base of the stocking. Your sewed edges should be centered in what will be the back half of your stocking. Pin the cuff to the stocking.
- Sew around the edges of the top without sewing the top shut.
- I hand sewed a piece of ribbon (approx 4 inches) into the inner corner of my stocking after it was finished. I just couldn’t figure out exactly where to pin it to sew with the machine.
- Turn the stocking inside out and hot glue your pom-pom trim under the bottom edge of the cuff piece.
- I painted wooden letters for our initials and hot glued a piece of twine to form a loop. This goes over your stocking loop before hanging the stocking.
- Repeat x the desired number of stockings! I made 4 because I wanted to make an even number… and I have HOPE that we will need them someday for kiddos… or another puppy. 🙂
For my DIY stocking holders, I took a sculpted wood piece from Hobby Lobby, and hand screwed a gold hook into the base of it. Next, I spray painted the wooden piece and hook white, and hot glued a piece of felt to the base so it wouldn’t scratch the surface below. Then I super glued (hot glue will not hold up over time) a dollar tree glass candle holder to the top of the wood piece, and added a mini jar candle from the dollar tree to the inside to weigh the stocking holder down. I love these and they have held up well!
Happy crafting!
