How Do You Make Custom Christmas Stockings?
“Stockings are hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.” Everyone knows the poem “The Night before Christmas.” Stockings are a tradition that seems to have been around forever. The tradition actually started because people would hang their stockings by the chimney to dry and warm them to be worn the next day. Adding little treats makes for a great morning – and you’d still have warm stockings. Making your own stockings can be a fun holiday project with the family – each person having a unique and personalized stocking. Cut the shape out of your fabric. You can use felt or regular cotton depending on what you like. Some stockings have a boot shape while others look like actual stockings. Do whatever you think is best. Make sure you cut out two pieces of the same shape. Pin the two pieces together with the right sides face each other. When pinning, lay the pieces on a flat surface to make sure that the two pieces are perfectly even. You can adjust
