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
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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.
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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.
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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