Making Victorian Christmas Stockings

Making Victorian Christmas Stockings

For the past seven years of marriage to my husband, we have been collecting Victorian Christmas tree ornaments. They are delicate, elegant, rich in style and so beautiful on a Christmas tree and best we got them on sale!

Making Victorian Christmas Stockings can be the same thing. Making stockings really is not that hard. Decorating them is even easier these days because of hot glue guns. So let's see if we can put a list together showing things we will need:

-Delicate beige, cream white or mauve satin like material, let's say ½ yard.
-½ yard of white mesh material (I think that is what it is called)
-Cream colored lace about 1 inch wide, let's say about ¼ yard
-String of little plastic pearl beads, dried baby roses and little plastic gems
-Cream and mauve thin satin ribbon
-Hot glue gun
-Scissors
-Brown bag from the grocery store or a piece of parchment paper

Take your piece of parchment paper or brown bag and draw out the shape of a Christmas Stocking. If you have a stocking from a previous year, use that as a guide and trace onto the paper. You are making a pattern.

Next, I pile my material together and fold it, including the mesh material. Pin the pattern onto the material and cut it out; you should end up with four pieces of regular material and two pieces of mesh. I only say this many because you want the stocking to be thick and strong.

Place one piece of mesh between two pieces of material and then do the same thing with the other two pieces of material and mesh. Pin all six pieces together and sew a one quarter inch all the way around the stocking. Do not sew the top leave it open at the moment. I like to sew the stocking twice, so I will go around the stocking again about one eighth of an inch from my previous stitches.

So the end result should be: two pieces of mesh sown between two pieces of material with a double stitch and the top of the stocking open with raw edges.

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Making Victorian Christmas Stockings

Christmas stocking