I’m Making Stockings!

Well, I’m attempting to make stockings.  I grew up with coordinating stockings and I’ve been waiting to get ones for our little family since Adam was born.  Unfortunately, the ones I would love to get are really expensive.

I made this rag quilt for Adam out of flannel and cotton and it turned out so cute so I had the idea to do kind of the same thing on stockings. 
I searched around online and came across a cute pattern for ragged cotton stockings with little appliques on the front.  The pattern came with 6 applique designs so I am going to make 6 coordinating stockings (2 to save for future babies hopefully!).  Before I went and bought all the fabric, I did a trial run with some random fabric I had lying around.  I’m so happy I did because I messed up a few times and figured out better ways to do other things.

So here’s my trial stocking.  It was actually really easy to put together.  This is before I snipped the seams and washed it.  After being snipped and washed
I will add batting between the layers on the actual stockings to give them some soft puffiness.  I also discovered that I should follow the pattern’s suggestion and use homespun cotton because apparently it frays better.  This cotton (or whatever it was) hardly frayed at all in the wash.  I’m also going to tweak the shape of the stocking a little.

I want to have our names embroidered on them but I don’t want to do it myself because they won’t be perfect and it’ll forever drive me crazy.  I think I’ll try and find someone that has one of those fancy machines that embroiders for you.  Anyone have one of those? :)