stockings challenge

I have Christmas stockings on my brain today. There are so many other things I should be making today. But for some reason I am thinking of a stocking pattern that I saw in an old quilting magazine that had directions for making a stocking sewn up in red and covered in a few green yo-yo’s.

I am also wondering if you have some pictures of your favorite Christmas stocking? Is it one that you made, or an old one that was store bought when you were little. I’m sure that it is put away in your Christmas decorations box and is very hard to get to. But if you want to share come on! Just email me your photo and I’ll post it here for us all to see. I know that there is a flickr group for this too, but let’s see it here too! I hope you’re interested…

This one was made by my sister Judith. When I was in Tucson this spring she got these out to show me, and I immediately got out my camera. I love them! Don’t I have the craftiest sisters!

handkerchief stockings

And here is a few of mine. I’m sure that you’ve seen these before. But like I said. I have stockings on the brain!

made with a little piece of vintage embroidered linen.

a little Moda display at the Houston Quilt Market 2007. Gotta love the retro!

some little ones made for little ones

So, please email me with any of your own christmas stocking photos! Let’s see what you got!!

the winner

This has been a long week. I bet it has been for you too!

The winner of the handkerchief Christmas stocking is Sarah! I wish you the merriest of Christmases! Especially for your littlest girl. I know how fun a babies first Christmas can be, especially for Mommy, finding all of the perfect little gifts. There is so much cute stuff that they “have to have”, so many traditions to begin. It sure can be a lot of fun.

All of my own kids Christmas stocking are handmade out of black felt. I had a lot of it left over one year from making bat wings for a Halloween costume. I then tried to applique a special picture onto each one that made me think of each one of them. One loves dogs, one loves the snow, and one is an angel. Actually, they all love dogs and the snow! My husbands’ and mine each have a gingerbread boy and a gingerbread girl. I love hanging them each year and seeing my kids get so excited about which one is theirs and what little details they like.

On my stairs, I have hanging some older stockings. The first ones I made, my first year of marriage. One that is knitted, from my mother-in-law, that she sent us for our first baby. One sparkly stocking for our baby girls’ first Christmas from her Gram. Jeff’s childhood felt stocking, and my Snoopy stocking that I got as a teenager from my sister.

What does your stocking look like?