Alex O'Brien

How to make a Christmas stocking in 10 minutes

Add a personal touch to your holiday décor, or create a family heirloom for the grandkids, with Christmas stockings you create yourself. In no time at all, we’ll help you hang a stocking that Santa can't wait to fill. 

What you’ll need: 

• Sheet A3 paper
• Scissors
• Pencil
• 45cm durable fabric
• Dress­maker’s pins
• Sewing machine
• Needle and thread 

Instructions:

1. Create a stocking pattern on your A3 sheet of paper making sure you maximise the width and length of the paper. Cut out your stocking. If you don’t trust your own drawing, there are plenty of stocking patterns available for download on the internet for free.
   
   
2. Lay your pattern on the wrong side of fabric with toe facing left, then trace outline with pencil.
   
   
3. Flip template so toe faces right, place it on wrong side of fabric and trace again. Cut out stocking halves.
   
   
4. Pin halves together, right sides facing. Stitching just over 1cm from cut edge and sew stocking halves together. Taking care not to damage the seam, cut small notches in fabric edges bordering toe, heel and instep curves. Turn stocking right side out. Fold raw edge inward and hand-stitch.
   
   
5. You might also want to buy some different colour fabric to make detail on the toe or add a Christmas motif to your stocking like the Christmas tree in this picture.

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