How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking

  • November 3, 2009
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Create a unique stocking to hang by the chimney with care for years to come.

You Will Need

  • A stocking
  • Trimmings
  • Holiday decorations
  • Needle and thread
  • Scissors
  • Fabric paint
  • Felt
  • Fabric glue
  • Glitter
  • Imagination
  • Christmas cookie cutters (optional)
How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Start with a plain stocking

Step 1: Start with a plain stocking

Start with a plain Christmas stocking, either store-bought or handmade.

Felt is best if you plan to use a lot of iron-on appliques.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Decide on a concept

Step 2: Decide on a concept

Decide on a concept. Modern or old-fashioned? Simple or elaborate? Understated or over-the-top? Consider focusing on a theme.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Hit the crafts store

Step 3: Hit the crafts store

Hit a crafts store to check out embellishments. If you can draw, pick up some fabric paint.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Buy some felt

Step 4: Buy some felt

Buy some felt in contrasting colors to your stocking so you can cut out your own original designs and sew or glue them on.

Use Christmas cookie cutters as stencils.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Check out the dollar store

Step 5: Check out the dollar store

Check out the dollar store for holiday decorations, bric-a-brac, and small toys that you can attach to the stocking.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Write the name

Step 6: Write the name

Write the name in glue, using a squeeze bottle, pour on glitter, and shake off the excess. Or spell it out in applique letters, which come in every kind of font and material imaginable. Consider writing the name someplace other than across the top, like vertically down the side.

How To Make a Personalized Christmas Stocking: Be original

Step 7: Be original

Above all, be original. Your stocking can be any color, any design – kitschy or sophisticated. The choice is yours.

According to legend, the stocking tradition began when St. Nicholas took pity on three poor girls who’d left their stockings to dry by the fireplace, and filled them with gold.

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i like the white one with red flowers raping around the side.

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