Christmas stockings in progress

I have been wanting to make Christmas stockings for my husband and myself since we got married. I decided to wait until after we had children to do it, though, so we could have a family set. I did not get to make them in time for Kiarda's first Christmas, given that at that time I was averaging about three hours of sleep a night spread across the entire night.

Anyways, I finally made a decision about how best to create the images in my head about how I wanted them to look: wool felt! I'm about halfway done with them so far, so here's a picture.


Each will have a white cuff with the person's name on it. There will be a few embroidered details, as well as a few snowflake sequins added to the background of each one. I think I will opt for a "less is more" with these - I want them to be whimsical and too much detail can detract from that. The stockings will be lined. I may use fun prints for the insides...will have to dig through my stash and see what I can find!

Christmas swap top completed!

I finally made a decision about the borders after much deliberation and several inputs - thanks everyone! I opted for a narrow inner border in cream, with the green holly fabric as a larger outer border. I'm pleased with how it turned out. I'll probably bind it in either cream or red - or maybe mix it up like a candy cane? That might be too much. We'll see. I'm glad I finally got this done - I've had the borders cut and sitting on my ironing board for a month. It's about time!

It turned out much larger than I had thought it would be in my head, oh well! I'm holding it up as high as I can, and I'm 5'8" - DH couldn't even get it all in the picture. Sorry the color is a bit off, but you can get the idea.