Thank you I’m so pleased you like it 😊 I’ll let you into a secret, I actually made another video first doing it the traditional way, then right at the end I had a eureka moment and remade the whole video sewing it all together as one! 😂
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! I hadn't sewn anything in over a year and just finished my first stocking. Your instructions are so clear and the finished product is beautiful. What a great way to do the lining and loop.
Ahhhh fantastic! Well done you! I wish I could see your beautiful stocking! Thank you for your kind message and I’m glad you found the video useful 🥰 honestly comments like this make my day ☺️
This is an old post I missed but I’m going to comment anyway. I was such a tomboy and my dad and mom were not into sports except for riding bicycles. I, like me mom, loved trying every trick imaginable. Loved it! Had to teach myself to pitch a baseball. LOL!!! I taught all the sports activities to my son, what he would let me. He wasn’t into sports. We all shared a love of cars though. Every child is different. I was the girl who enjoyed sports and anything with a motor. My husband loved to cook. Our son loves cars, likes cooking, and can take or leave sports. It is never about the gender.
Hi Kim, thanks for taking the time to comment, I couldn’t agree with you more, we are all very different and I genuinely believe enjoying life is doing what you love regardless of any gender stereotypes!
This helps me wrap my head around how to do the cuff. THAT SAID...I have monogrammed fabric that was professionally done for me, and now I'm mortified that I'll wind up sewing it upside down. Guess hand-basting will help me figure that out. Your method is so easy to understand. THANK YOU!
Thank you for your kind comment and I’m so glad you found the video useful! Good luck with the monogrammed fabric, it’s a good idea to hand baste first just to take the stress out of it and once you’re happy, secure with the machine. Sounds fab, I wish I could see what you make! Xx
I am going to make 4 for my son and family and embroider their names on them for their new home. I love your method of the lining and main fabric all together - GREAT IDEA!!!!! Well I've got work to do but thank you this is an awesome tutorial you did a great job.
Ahhh thanks so much for your lovely message 😊 I think that’s a wonderful idea, making them for their new home and I love the idea of embroidering their names on! Have fun sewing and I’m sure they will love their stockings 😊
Thanks for subscribing! This is a great beginner project, I hope you find the tutorial useful! If you’re a complete beginner, it’s a good idea to have a practice run through with scrap fabric before starting on your ‘best’ fabric just to familiarise yourself with the process ☺️. I promise to have more videos uploaded soon, there has been a slight delay recently due to moving house!
Great video! I made several the way you demonstrated. I added custom embroidered names to the front of the stockings and they turned out great! I used thick polar fleece and fur, so it was a very thick at the loop to sew, so I put a round over with hump jumper on my list for Santa!
Wow, your stockings sound fantastic! I wish I could see them! 🤩 thank you so much for sharing 😊. I’m sure Santa will be very impressed with your stockings and fingers crossed you get your HumpJumper! They do make those bulky seams much easier to handle! Xx
I LOVE this tutorial! So easy for me to follow! I'm going to try to machine embroider my stocking. Praying that it is right side up at the end! Thank you so much. 🎄
Since you are sewing thick fabric do you need a special needle? I am not a sewer, but I do have a machine. I want to make a stocking out of my daughter's uni plaid flannel. Not sure I want a fluffy cuff, maybe a fold over, but I am not sure how to do that with your directions. I love how you make cutting out and sewing together the fabric so easy. Thank you.
Hello and firstly thank you for taking the time to leave me a comment, I’m glad you enjoyed the tutorial 😊. So to answer your questions, I would chose a thicker needle that can cope well with thicker fabric, so go for something like a universal 90/14 or 100/16, a thinner needle will wear down quicker and is more likely to break when sewing with multiple layers (ie over seam joins) to answer you query about making the top a fold over, probably the easiest way using my tutorial would be to make the ‘fur’ section as per the video but instead of making it out of fur, make it out of the same fabric as the outer stocking that way it will look like it’s just folded over. I hope this helps and the idea of using your daughters uni plaid is such a lovely idea, I bet it will look fantastic 😊
Thanks so much I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🥰 For the fur, the best way is to make the width the measurement of the the top of your stocking (if you have made a pattern of the stocking you can just double this top edge width, (just remove the seam allowance from one side since you will be folding one edge of the fur) my top edge measured 7” so if I take off the seam allowance on one side that gives 6.5” double that width (as it goes all the way around the stocking) = 13” wide - (this can be cut on the fold as I do in the video) and the depth is however far down your stocking you want your fur to come plus an inch seam allowance (0.5” too and bottom), I think for mine I cut about 5” so I had a 4” deep cuff….. so in my case it would be: CUT 2 pieces 13” wide x 5” deep. I hope all this makes sense? Please tell me if not! It’s always much harder to put it into words! Xx
@@shelleycallahan3319 no problem 😌 yes that’s the measurement of the fur on mine, just make sure that the 13” is the measurement of the complete top of your stocking when made up + 1” seam allowance. If you are in doubt make the body up first then you can actually measure the top of your stocking add 1” and that’s the width you need x
Great tutorial! Just what I needed. I do have a question though. I want to have a twisted lip cord trim around the body of my stocking. How would I orient that between the layers of the body fabric? Between the 2 pieces of outside facing fabric? Cord inside the seam allowance, lip edge more or less lined up with the live edges? Thanks!
Hi and thanks for your comment! You are right, you would need to place the trim around the edge with the lip edge running along the raw edge and the cord stitched in place so that it is just on the other side of the seam allowance (I’m hoping that makes sense?!) one easy way of doing it is to stitch (or baste) the lip edge trim to one piece of the the outer fabric (stitching the trim to the right side of the fabric) ensuring that the flat lip edge is lying on top of your seam allowance and the cord is on the inside. A zipper foot or binding foot will help and ensure you can get close to the cord. Then once in place sew together as per the video, but when you go around the body of the stocking, you will be sewing close to the cord so again a zipper foot or piping foot will help. Please let me know if this makes no sense and I’ll make a little video to help! Xx
And one other thought, you will prob need to clip the lip edge so that it lies flat around the curves of the stocking, just snip small cuts at right angles to the edge , don’t snip to close to the cord and, keep any notches on the ‘seam allowance since of the stitch line
I think that makes sense but the true test will be when I go to sew it! I’d better get my supplies ordered so I have plenty of time to puzzle over it. Thanks for responding!
Great tutorial! If I wanted to add batting to give it a bit more structure (I'm using cotton for outer fabric and flannel for lining fabric), would I simply cut out 2 layers of batting and stack them in order of: outer fabric, batting, lining fabric? Then turn right side out?
Thanks for you comment and I’m glad you enjoyed the tutorial 😊 to answer your question, you would need to put the batting next to the wrong side of the outer fabric. I would baste (tack) the batting to the backs of the outer fabric, then treat this as one piece of outer, that way you ensure it is stacked correctly. I hope this makes sense, if not please let me know and I can offer further help 😊
loved this tutorial, hoping to make one each for my 3 children. Do you have a downloadable template for the stocking? Also, if I used a pattern fabric for the lining and the cuff, would I still do the cuff separately? thank-you
Thank you! Yes I do have a template, and I will upload this to my website this weekend and ping you a reply here once I’ve done it. Personally I would still do the cuff as a separate piece because if you cut the lining and cuff as one, the folded bit (cuff) will be upside down and this may not work with you pattern (if the pattern has a right way up) also the way I have shown to put this one together needs to be put together with a separate cuff, otherwise you would assemble slightly differently. Hope I’ve made sense?!
Whoop, Whoop! I have it, thank_you so much for doing that. Going to do mine tomorrow. Annoyingly just realised I didn't order enough material for one of them though. Oh well. Happy Christmas and thank-you again.@@s79design
