I have made quite a few Christmas stockings in the past which you can view at the bottom of the page. They are an easy project that I can finish in an afternoon and can be easily coordinated to match other Christmas decorations that you already own. This page shows how I have made my most recent set of stockings for Christmas 2024 for me, my boyfriend, and our cat, Binx.
I made my own sewing pattern for the main piece, the collar, and the loop to hang it with. I cut out the main piece from flannel that I got for free from a fabric bin.
For the collar, I used some fleece that I had leftover from other projects.
Once I sewed both sides of the main pieces together, I found it was easiest to first attach the loop before attaching the collar.
These are the steps to attaching the collar (This is for you, Future Cara! She struggles with this step.).
To make the letters on the front of the stockings, I used fusible iron-on on the bad side of the fabric.
I left the backing paper of the fusible iron-on on the back of the fabric and I put the fabric onto a Cricut cutting mat with the good side of the fabric facing up. I used painters tape to hold the fabric in place.
I did the same thing for the fleece border. To cut the fleece, I used the "fusible fleece" setting on the Cricut and I used the rotary blade tool to cut it on the "More" pressure setting.
I used my Cricut Maker to cut out the letters. For the flannel, I used the "bonded denim" setting with the regular blade.
I positioned the fleece border on the stocking and ironed that down first. Then, I centered the flannel letter on top of it and ironed that into place.
These are the final finished stockings. They are about 12" long and I hung them up with command hooks.
These are some stockings that I made in college to use as door decorations. I used glitter glue to write my roommates and my names.
These are mini stockings I made that I hung on the bottom of my bunk bed.
These are some smaller stockings I made using felt and Cricut-cut vinyl for my job at the Makerspace.
These are some smaller stockings that I made to use as door decorations.