So I bought four matching green ones from the dollar spot in Target.
Because temporary stockings didn't need to be fancy.
Temporary ended up being three Christmases.
My five children had mismatched stockings last year.
Sometime in the beginning of this December I was browsing Joann's Christmas aisle and saw the cutest stockings! I loved both the sweater stockings and the burlap ones. But at $30 a piece...yeah, I decided it was high time I finally sew my family's stockings.
Burlap seemed too messy and too rough...linen seemed to be the best route. And because I'm thrifty and savvy and resourceful and all that, I dug in my fabric stash and found a pair of cream curtains I was saving for just because. While they're not exactly linen, they're close enough for me.
And while I'm not crafty and creative when left to my own resources, I am very good at copying other people's ideas...or in this case, using their patterns.
I used an old sheet for the linings (told you!) and needed only to buy 1/4 yard of fabric for each stocking cuff and whatever buttons and lace I wanted. I paid a total of $15 for six stockings (oops, I only photographed five)!
I will claim full creativity credits for the cuffs! I guess I can come up with something on my own!
While Aubrey's stocking, the cream floral one, is still awaiting a fabric flower for decoration (per her request), the rest are complete. And I do love them!
The only thing I don't like about them is how limp they are. I fully intended to add batting when I was making them, but completely forgot it on the first stocking in my excitement to see the completed product. I wanted them all to be the same, so left it out of the rest. But I do believe that would have helped.
Ideally, they'd hang on my deep blue wall, but that didn't work out, so they line the portrait hallway.
And ideally, I'd have added the wood name tags before I photographed and shared them with you, but that didn't work out either.
Hey, if Santa knows their face and can see their photo in the dim light, he'll get it figured out!
The stockings are made with care and hung. We're doing good!
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