Ok so this took me 2 days of staring at a stocking to figure out. My mind just doesn’t work in the turn it inside out then right side in then right side out and do the hokey pokey kind of way. So here’s a quickie tutorial mainly for my own sake so I remember how. If you want an actual pattern for the quilted parts, as well as templates for all the pieces, you can find a great pattern here.
Start with:
- the outside of the stocking, already sewn together with the back and turned right side out. (the front of my stocking is quilted with batting, the back has no batting)
- the lining of the stocking sewn together ( leave a 3” hole in the side for turning!) right sides in.
- fabric for the cuff
- a sewn tab of fabric for hanging tab
To figure out how wide to cut your cuff fabric….measure the width of the top of your stocking, double that number and add .5 inch for the seam allowance. For the length of the cuff I cut my fabric 9”…to give me a 4.25” finished folded cuff. So this piece was 9” x 16.5”
Sew together the 9” ends of the cuff piece, use a 1/4” seam allowance.
Turn the cuff right side out so its folded at the bottom and raw edges are at the top. It should make a tube you can stick the stocking in.
Stick the cuff on and around the top of the stocking, match the raw edges and pin. You can pin the tab onto the side now also.
Stick the whole thing into the lining. The stocking and lining should be right sides together.
Pin all of the raw edges together at the top (lining, 2 cuff edges, and stocking edges).
Sew all the way around the top. Make sure you catch all the layers (lining, cuff edges, stocking).
Turn the whole thing right side out using the hole left in the side of the lining.
Finish turning it inside out and sew up the hole in the side of the lining. Stuff the lining inside the stocking and fold the cuff down. Press the edges as needed.
When you’re done you’ll have a nicely lined cuff and stocking with no raw seams showing.
If you want to make these little double hourglass blocks I used my tutorial but changed the sizing of the template and the strips shown below:
57 comments:
Love your stocking. What a great way to highlight the blocks. Thanks for the tutorial!
I am SO happy you did this tutorial! I have to make a stocking for a friend's pet, and was trying to wrap my head around it. Thanks for all the pics. Beautiful stocking! :o)
I checked out that pattern from Thimble Blossoms yesterday and noticed that she used some batting in the middle. I was thinking about leaving it out (less bulk means more room for presents!) and it looks like you didn't use any. Do you feel like the stocking has enough body? Thanks for this great tutorial!
This is beautiful! Thanks for the tutorial.
Adin B
Thank you!! I need to make 2 of these for a newly engaged couple!!
Awesome tutorial!!! Thanks so much for sharing your hard work. I have some Wee Wonderful Christmas elves that I embroidered 2 1/2 years ago that are waiting to be turned into stockings...this is giving me the push i needed!! :)
Thank you so much! I stared at tutorials yesterday and I get so confused with RST-jargon (without touching the actual project). Your photos were just enough detail for me to figure it out. Can't wait to make a stocking for myself. :)
Love the stocking and your colors are great too!
Awesome!! Great tutorial, I will definitely be bookmarking this for next year :)
Love this, thanks a ton!
You are pretty smart to figure that out. It was beyond me. Thanks so much!
These are gorgeous! So nice to create us a tutorial:)
Amazing!! I never would have figured that out in my spatially challenged brain.
I'm still mystified by your tiny hourglass squares. Wow.
Beautiful stocking!
Absolutely darling! Makes me want to re-do all of my plain Christmas stockings and make them quilted ones.
Thanks so much for posting this. i've wanted to make stocking for years. I think I might be able to now...though I have a feeling they won't be nearly as cute as yours:)
Thanks for putting this is a way that I feel like I could tackle a stocking fairly easily! Now, I just have to decide if I want to make them for this year or next... hahaa!
That inside-out, three-dimensional thinking is always the hardest part of projects like this. Thanks for the photos!
Beautiful stocking!! I think I'll give our mantel a facelift next Christmas, and quilted stockings will be the centerpiece!
adorably cute! this one is my favorite of the 4 stockings... those double hourglass blocks are darling.
that's exactly how I did mine! I'm glad I was on the right track. :)
Awesome!!!!! Thank you:) making mine tonight! I showed my husband your stockings and he loved them and said I HAD to make our girls some:))))
Very nice tutorial.
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You are so kind and thoughtful to provide us with another great tutorial and without a fee. You have given me many inspirations and I thank you. I wish you many blessings at this Christmas time and I look forward to being with you in this coming year.
What have you done! You made this absolutely awesome stockings and you posted tutorials!! Wahahahaaaa. They are so gorgeous that now I will have to make them!! Have to! Have to! Have to!! And I already have my sewing table piled with unfinished projects.
I haven't drooled over a tutorial for a long time. Absolutely awesome stockings. Ok, going to make them NOW :D
Chole
So. Freaking. Cute.
So sweet...thanks so much for sharing!
thank you for the tutorial!! i made one last night and it was a BIG help! i used some red corduroy for an added touch on the top.
Thanks for the tutorial- it all makes sense now...like your new banner, too.
Thank you! Much tidier than what I cobbled together last year!
Lovely stockings, thank youfor the tutorial, maybe after xmas I can work on for next year.
Wonderful. Thank you so much.
Very cute stocking!!
I have to say you posted this tutorial at just the right time!! I am like you and have a hard time figuring out which way to place things to flip and sew and all of that. I tend to need the seam ripper close by for projects like this. I have been really obsessed with wardrobe refashion ideas and recently got a brainstorm to make my own gray boots from wool felt...I wanted them lined and to have a cuff. I have debated for the last couple of days as I have been putting the boots together how I would go about it all. I just happened to type lining and rolled cuff into Google, thinking I would never find what I wanted and voila', up came your post and it was EXACTLY what I needed. Now I see you just posted this on Friday and I found it a day later...Thank you so very much!!!
Leslie
I am so grateful that you posted this tutorial. I was pondering all the turning in and out in the pattern, but now it all makes perfect sense. Yay. Can't wait to finish off my stocking. Thanks so much.
Merry Christmas :D
Thank you for this tutorial! I love the design
of the pieced stockings.
My brain doesn't work that way at all! It would've taken me ages to figure out, and a lot of seamripping. Thanks for saving me some holiday angst!
These are my FAVORITE Christmas Stockings EVER!!! Thanks for sharing the stocking pattern you used and how you added your own special touch. I especially love the double hourglass one. It's my favorite. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hugs!
That is beautiful!
I am just getting ready to make some stockings for this year. What a great find this tutorial was,Thanks!
Deb
I have just made a stocking for each of my daughters, using your tutorial, and I am SO pleased with them! Thank you so much for sharing this online. The stockings are just wonderful, and I really hope my daughters treasure them for years like I still treasure the one my Mum made for me.
I just followed the link to you from Purplepanda's blog. Thanks so much for your tutorial, I've always struggled with making stockings, now I've got it thanks!
Great tutorial! I featured it in a recent blog post....http://radcrafter.com/2011/11/10-diy-christmas-stocking-tutorials/
Alida
For some reason my stocking isn't coming out right. I have unpicked 3 times now and finally threw it against the wall. You line everything up (i.e. toes, heel) facing the same direction when you put right sides together, correct? When I flip the lining toe is facing a different direction than the outer fabric. I am so frustrated!
Two down...three to go. Thank you for this great tutorial! It has turned a light on in my head. I can see this coming in handy for bags and such.
Hello! I had to share this in my DIY Tutorials post today :)
Hello there - just wanted to say thanks for this lovely tutorial. I wasn't nearly so organised as to be able to do a beautifully quilted front like yours, but I loved using the tutorial to make a stocking for my youngest this year.
Hello, what a neat tutorial and very well done! I loved it! I am in a stocking swap group where we are making a Christmas stocking (yes, I know its Jan>) LOL, and we are going to fill it all year with small gifts from all those that signed up! Sure Hope my chosen person likes her new stocking! Thanks to YOU, It is nicely lined! I had not ever lined a stocking before and was a little intimated to make one but you took that away, and I can make more now with confidence! Thanks so much!
Nice christmas stockings:) I loved your use of colours:)
I realize that it's May and Christmas is probably the furthest thing from everyone's minds, but I just had to leave a comment thanking you for such a wonderful tutorial. My puppy now has a Christmas stocking for this year! =)
What a great tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing with us. The stockings are so beautiful. You inspired me! I made one than I felt in love with them and made another 5! for my friends and family so I am ready for Christmas this year!
Thankyou so much for your tutorial!!! I would still be thinking of how to do the lining if it wasnt for this!!! So big big thanks!!
I was looking for a way for the cuff of the stocking to stand out more, and this tutorial gave me the simple fix I needed. Thanks can't wait to try it!
I was just ready to throw all the beautiful material I bought today to make stockings into the woodstove! I spent hours trying to figure this out. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Bless you.
Thank you so much! I am totally confused with anything inside out or reversed/ upside down.... My usually smart brain goes totally blank and it really bothers me. I know this took a lot of time and really appreciate you sharing
Thank you so much! I am totally confused with anything inside out or reversed/ upside down.... My usually smart brain goes totally blank and it really bothers me. I know this took a lot of time and really appreciate you sharing
THANK YOU so much for this tutorial. It was so helpful. I made 5 socks today and they turned out AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!
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