…were made from a T-shirt with care, with hopes that old tee could get some more wear. It’s not exactly how the traditional poem goes, and I realize I’m a little late with the tutorial should you have wanted to take a stab at it yourself, but stow this one away for next season! Here’s a holiday stocking variation on the Stocked Up wine cozy (project #32 in Generation T: Beyond Fashion):
Ingredients: 1 L or XL T-shirt scissorspaper pen or pencil straight pins chalk marker
needle thread
1. Make a pattern by sketching or tracing the outline of the stocking on a sheet of scrap paper. Cut it out, make any adjustments, and pin it to the front of a large T-shirt. Trace the outline on the tee using a chalk marker.
2. Flip the pattern and trace to make a double-sided, double-thick stocking.
3. Pin and sew a running stitch around the curved edges.
4. Snip a scrap piece 3″ by 1″, fold it in half to make a loop.
5. Cut three strips from a sleeve, and stretch them to make cords. Braid them together to make trim.
6. Pin and sew the trim in place around the top edge with a running stitch. Secure the hanging loop as you go.
7. Remove the pins. Now it’s time to make them in multiples (and in varying sizes–the one on the right, made from a Tiger Cubs uniform, is for the four-legged meowing member of the household, naturally!), and hang them by the chimney…or the key hooks with care.
8. Then fill ’em up with goodies!
[ Posted on December 25th, 2009 ]
Cool idea, Megan!!! 🙂 I guess you could make the stockings out of plain T-shirts, then write people’s names on them either with iron-on letters, or by taking letters from other T-shirts, and attaching them ransom-note style, like your Alphabet City skirt/shirt project from the first book. Also, if you knew someone who was into DIY, you could fill the stocking up with DIY stuff, like scissors, seam-rippers, a rotary cutter, some iron-on decorations, needles and thread, pins, punk buttons, and maybe even more T-shirts. 🙂
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