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How to Make a felt stocking

November 23, 2016
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“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there,” said Clement Moore in his 1822 poem. For generations, women of Hungary have been using the reverse-cut felt applique technique to embellish traditional clothing, and more recently it has been adapted for stockings and decorations. Make one for a special little one in your life and it could become a family heirloom to be passed on for future generations. 7-Stocking-materials-and-tools You will need: 2 x 50x50cm felt in white, 1 x 50x50cm felt in red Red and white cotton sewing thread 1 x 50x50cm piece of tissue paper A sewing machine with an embroidery foot An embroidery hoop Small embroidery scissors Pinking shears or decorative scallop scissors 1-Stocking-tracing INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Print out the pattern, cut along the dotted lines and join together. (You can find both the pattern and instructions available for  free download here).
  1. Trace the pattern onto tissue paper.
  1. Place your white piece of felt on the table, layer on top the red piece of felt. Then place your tissue paper pattern on top and pin in place. You will now have three layers: white felt, red felt and tissue paper.
  1. Starting at the top, mount your felt and tissue paper into the embroidery hoop.
  1. Using an embroidery foot, drop the feed-dog on your sewing machine and set the tension to 2.
2-Stocking-hoop
  1. Following your drawn design, slowly start free-hand stitching by moving the embroidery hoop around, keeping your stitches close together.
  1. Tear away the tissue paper as close to the lines of stitching as you can
3-Stocking-applique
  1. Cut away the top layer of red felt around your line of stitching to reveal your pattern, starting from the outside: do this carefully making sure you don’t snip the bottom layer of felt.
  1. Use a lint remover or sellotape to remove the ‘fluff’ from the felt.
4-Stocking-scallop
  1. Once you are happy with your applique design add another layer of felt to the back and sew around the stocking shape (you can use the pattern to trace the shape of the stocking).
  1. Trim away the excess felt with pinking shears or decorative scallop scissors.
  1. Using some of the leftover felt, add a loop so you can hang your stocking.
FIND MORE CRAFT IDEAS TO DOWNLOAD AT WWW.SELVEDGE.ORG 5-Single-finished-stocking
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3 comments

I was wondering if you had any different patterns besides the one from above. Trying to make 6 of them. I will try with different colors if there is the only one pattern. Thank you for post it this wonderful craft!

Olgi KiralyNovember 28, 2022

Sorrry I cannot find the pattern for the stockings

Barbara JanssenMay 8, 2017

Hello Barbara,
Apologies for the confusion – here is a link to the web page with the pattern and instructions available for download.
http://www.selvedge.org/community/craft-projects/?how-to=15
I hope that helps?
Grace.

Grace Warde-AldamMay 8, 2017

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