Christmas Stocking

by Colleen on December 15, 2015

Santa will not be able to resist leaving some fabulous gifts in this beautiful scrap fabric stocking. Although a little time consuming, this is a great way to use up those fabric scraps that you may have laying around the house. Warning: This is one project that I have made that has resulted in requests for more!

By: Colleen

Required Materials

scrap fabric
fleece for cuff
sewing machine and thread. Or if you are very ambitious, a needle and thread
iron

Step One: Find or make a stocking pattern. This is one that I use, which makes a stocking that is approximately 19″ long.

Cut two stocking pieces out of larger pieces of scrap fabric. This will be the inside of your stocking, so it doesn’t matter what fabric you choose.

Step Two: Find a piece of fabric for the toe section, and the next piece that will be right beside it. You can put the fabric any way you chose, each way giving the stocking a different look. You may wish to cut uniform strips of fabric for the entire stocking, or simply use chunks of various sizes. I have combined the two methods for this particular stocking.

Remember to do both sides of the stocking! You may wish to make them similar, or do something completely different on each side…

Pin the toe scrap wrong side down to the stocking inside, and the next piece right side down to the toe piece and stocking inside.

Step Three: press open the seam. This will allow you to have a nice crisp seam.

Turn the second piece so that the right side of the fabric is facing up, then press again. You are ready to sew your third piece of fabric on now.

Step Four: Pin the next piece of scrap fabric right side down, to the edge of the right side up second piece.

Sew this seam, then press to right side, as done with the previous piece.

Step Five: Continue adding various fabric pieces until the stocking is covered.

Now sew around the edge of the stocking so that all the ends of the pieces are firmly affixed to the stocking inside.

You may wish to pin the fabric to the edges of the inside stocking before sewing around the edge, in order to avoid any wrinkles or weird pulls on the right side of the stocking.

Step Six: After sewing around both inside pieces, trim off the excess scrap fabric.

Step Seven: Sew both sides together, inside out. Don’t forget to leave the top open!

Step Eight: In order to hang the stocking, you will need a loop. I have made mine out of fabric, but you could also use some ribbon, or even a bit of yarn or string.

I sewed a small fabric tube to use for my loop.

Baste the loop to the inside of the stocking, at the top by the back seam. The loop part should be facing down, and the ends should be even with the top of the stocking.

Step Nine: Cut out one cuff piece, on fold. I like using white fleece for all my stocking cuffs, but you could use any type of fabric.