Mini Stockings

These stockings are merely huge adequate to hold a small reward or sweet for each of the 24 days of Introduction. In case your tree is just too small to hold 24 stockings, cling the rest from a ribbon swag.

Use a computer to print numbers, then reduce them out and glue them to metal-rimmed tags; or label the tags by hand. Use felt in various colors, and add ribbons in complementary hues.

If you happen to occur to love, cling a swag of stockings with out tags all through the mantel, tie them onto presents, or cling them from the tree.

Instructions

  1. For each stocking, trace the template onto felt twice with a pencil or tailor’s chalk, and reduce out. Pin the two gadgets of felt collectively on the toe, heel, and instep.

  2. Cut back a bit of ribbon merely longer than the width of the stocking’s opening; place it about 1/4 inch from the best, and pin in place. Stitching 1/2 inch in from the sting, machine-stitch the doorway, once more, and ribbon collectively, leaving the stocking’s prime open.

  3. Trim throughout the seam with pinking shears.To carry the stocking, use an axe to punch a spot through every gadgets of felt throughout the increased correct nook; thread silver twine or a slim ribbon through the holes, and tie on a metal-rimmed tag.

Initially appeared: MARTHA STEWART KIDS, 2003

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