Many many years ago I made my two children a Christmas Stocking each. Not your usual type, but machine knitted versions.....and they were HUGE !! So when my daughter phoned me a little while ago to ask me to knit one for my new Granddaughter I took a sharp intake of breath! My electronic knitting machine gave up the ghost when I tried it at the beginning of the summer (hadn't been used for 20 years!!) but I thought I could still use it without the power and do the Fair Isle border by hand. So I started to search through all my patterns....but could I find the instructions? Every magazine, folder and even the internet were searched but to no avail. I have no idea where I got the pattern from. So I had to admit defeat and asked my daughter if I could just make a fabric one instead.
So here is my hand drawn pattern - but only when the stocking was finished did I realise that the shape/size could have been better - but there you go!
I had some Christmas scraps of fabric, but had to buy some off the internet in the end to get the colours I wanted, but even then I wasn't quite happy with the choice. I wanted a 'Scandinavian' theme, but the choice and variety was limited within my price range. I cut the fat quarters into 2.5" squares and laid them 'on point' using two larger blocks to represent Mormor (grandmother) and Morfar (grandfather). I used white fleece for the heel and toe and for the fold over top to the stocking. The name I did by hand using embroidery thread and a chain stitch. I quilted the patchwork front onto fleece and the back is plain white fleece. I sewed the two pieces right side together and bound the seam to make it neat when turned right side out. The top of the stocking really needed to be wider, but even so, this is quite a large stocking at over 36" long to the heel! But not as big as the knitted ones 😀
