Swell Stockings - FREE Pattern!

Planning to make any holiday stockings this year? Here's an easy peasy pattern - and it's free! Click here to download.

The pattern is for a basic stocking made from felt and takes less than an hour to make. But (of course) you'll want to fancify it up a bit. :-) The one on the pattern cover just has a bunch of inexpensive pearly buttons stitched on it - with the thread tails visible.

See?

Or use just a handful of buttons in a vertical stripe.

Beads are always nice - and beaded trim is super easy. You'll still finish this one in under an hour.

 This one has a strip of feather boa across the top. Ooh la la!

How about some rickrack? A couple of bands across the top are nice. . .

But vertical stripes are good too.

For this one I cut some dots out of felt (traced around a quarter for the size) and then laid them out and embroidered lines between them.

And here's one with fancier applique (still easy). I used the Anywhere Bear pattern - but any pattern would work. How about embroidering on a stocking? One of the puppies or kitties would be really cute! So would one of the Rainbow Girls! Or one of the birds from the Bird Sampler! And did you know you can turn any embroidery pattern into an applique pattern?

So there you have it - a bunch of swell stockings! Download the pattern and make one this year.

Tomorrow - ornaments!

Happy sewing!

Best,
Wendi