How Do You Make A Pattern For Sewing A Quilted Christmas Stocking?
It is tradition to hang stockings during Christmas time. Put a home spun spin on your Christmas decor when you make quilted Christmas stockings by coordinating the colors to match your existing Christmas decor. Make quilted stockings in just a few hours when you are a seasoned seamstress or set aside an afternoon for this project if you are a beginning sewer. Trace the outline of an old Christmas stocking onto a large piece of butcher or newspaper. Cut out the shape using paper or craft shears. Do not use sewing shears on paper because it can dull the blades. Place the material that you will use for the back of the stocking face down on your work surface. Lay the pattern on the material. Pin the pattern down. Cut out the back piece. Cut 3-by-3 inch squares out of several pieces of coordinating material. Cut approximately 30 squares total. Set out the squares of material so that there are four squares per row and about seven columns. Arrange the different patterns of material so that th
