Knock Your Socks Off!; EASY Homemade Christmas Stockings
I know I am cutting it a little close, I mean Santa is coming in a few short days…. But now that we have Etta, I decided I wanted new stockings. Growing up my mom made us some really fun crocheted granny square stockings, that just spoke Christmas. So, I just really wanted yarn stockings. BUT, I didn’t have time to crochet them, story of our lives I’m sure! The other day, while I was at my favorite local thrift store shopping for tacky Christmas sweaters…(post to come) I picked up a few other sweaters as well to make this:
It was SEW easy! If you can sew along a line on a sewing machine you can make this.
1st Pick up a few sweaters at the Thrift store (or your closet!)
2nd. Launder them and remove any lint etc.
3rd To begin, turn sweater inside out.
4th Smooth out the sweater so that the bottom edges are lined up together (this is most important because the bottom of the sweater will become the top of your sock)
5th Now trace a stocking shape onto the sweater with the opening of the sock aligning with the bottom of the sweater.
6th after tracing pin the sweaters front and back side together along the drawn sock.
7th Sew around with the sock shape ***With light tension and the longest straight stitch. (this way the fabric will not pull and pucker)
8th Remove pins and cut out sock with about a 1/2 in seam allowance.
9th Sew around the sock again, and then zigzag just outside of your straight line to make sure it is secure
10th Flip right side out, at this point the sock is done.
You will need a small loop to hang them, you can use what you like to create a loop, and attach it to the top back of the sock. Honestly I haven’t done this yet, so I just used a binder clip, don’t tell Santa!
One little trend in the Christmas sock area that I have noticedthis year especially, is just hanging a letter on the sock, instead of having their name on there. And I tried it too:
1st print out the first letter of all the names in your family.
(we have Mom, Dad, Etta, and a small Kitty and Buddy!)
Print them out backward ( I just flipped the image horizontally in Photoshop)
2nd Glue them to a sheet of chipboard ( I used an old gift box, the ones you always have kick around)
glue to the front of the chipboard a paper that you like, (this is what will show)
3rd I beefed up my letters with a sharpie, til I thought it looked decent. (not necessary, I just wanted to)
4th Cut out the letter, and hang with the sock!
The final result:
Unfortunately we don’t have a fireplace, so I hung them on the banister!
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Cassity Kmetzsch started Remodelaholic after graduating from Utah State University with a degree in Interior Design. Remodelaholic is the place to share her love for knocking out walls, and building everything back up again to not only add function but beauty to her home. Together with her husband Justin, they have remodeled 6 homes and are working on a seventh. She is a mother of four amazing girls. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.
>Don't you dare stop, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog. I can't wait to hit my local thrift store for some sweaters, although I won't have them for this year-boo.
>You are very ingenious! I love them. Great recycling idea! Thanks for your time and energies 🙂
>I love your sweater stockings! What a great job you did on them. The monogram was a good idea.
>What a great way to reuse a sweater. I love it. I hope you and your family have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
>These stockings are lovely! What a brilliant idea! I'll have to see if I have any old sweaters about…
Have a beautiful, beautiful holiday.
>These are fabulous – I LOVE cable knit! Happy Holidays!
>Great idea. I love it! Your sweater party pictures were hilarious!
>I love your blog! Just found it and put it in my favorites! Your sweater stocking is a wonderful idea! Keep up the creativity, we are watching! candy
>wonderful tutorial!
>Brilliant idea, Love it.
TFS
>I love this idea- I am already trying to plan out gifts for next year's Christmas, and this one made smaller and turned into an ornament just might make the cut!
Thanks for the great ideas!
>I'm saving this idea for next year. I can't wait to hit the thrift shops.
>Fabulous!! Thank you so much for linking it to Tip Junkie. You rock!
>cute cute cute!! i have made big mitten shaped throw pillows out of old sweaters before, but i like this idea also!
Troy
>Love this! Found via Ucreate. I've always wanted to have some matchy-matchy knitted stockings…. even tried crocheting them. HA! This is so much nicer for my sanity… time to start trolling thrift stores!!!
>i adore this! so simple and cute! i'll be featuring it on my blog smallfineprint.blogspot.com come 11/28/10
>Thanks for sharing the tute and this idea. I still have bunch of sweaters left that I used from a previous project. good thing I saved them. I knew I can use them for other projects. yaye! I am going to make these. 🙂
Adin B
>I'm a bit late to the game, but these are awesome!!! Beautifully done!
Thank you so much for sharing!!
I’m saving this adorable idea for when I’m a grandma one day (crossing fingers as my grandma clock is starting to tick).
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Would love to feature the photo of your stocking on the bannister in my Houzz article, but just need your okay first. Thanks so much!
Meg, will there be a link included to the original post?
Yes, there sure will be.
Okay sounds good! (i’d love it if you added the link or sent me the link so I could check it out)