DIY Burlap Christmas Stockings

I've seen so many homemade stockings lately that I wanted to make my own.  By no means am I a "sewer"... meaning I've never maybe once picked up a needle and thread.  That being said, this tutorial is filled with step-by-step pictures for those of you like me :)  My grandma helped me with this project, therefore, you will see grandma-hands throughout:)

I forgot to take a picture of the materials you will need, but depending on how many you will be making your fabric length will vary.  I bought 1 yard of burlap-type fabric, 1/2 a yard of fuzzy fabric for the top and 1/2 a yard of felt for the lining. I should have bought a little more felt, but it ended up working out by patching the lining.

Here we go...

First, create a template of a stocking.  I chose to go bigger because you will have to turn the fabric inside out to start, so it will lose some of it's size when you are all finished.

I traced along the folded side to start.

Second, I cut out the traced stocking and squared the edge.

Next, I placed the stocking on doubled up felt {cut once = two pieces} and as I said before, I should have gotten more felt, but this was a remnant so it didn't quite fit the tip of the stocking...

So we used the scrapes and pieced it together to create the whole lining, first by measuring how much scrape we needed...

Then piecing the scrapes together and sewing them like this:

Next, we lined up the felt into the burlap {the reason I chose felt was because it would give the burlap some body to hold the stocking shape}

Then the sewing process began...

And ended up like this:

We went all the way to the edge of the burlap, unfortunately the felt didn't fit the entire tip, but that's ok we're first timers! ;)

After the sewing was done, we flipped it back from being inside out.  Now, I can never explain that correctly...inside in, outside out...whatev you get the idea :)

For some reason, this picture refuses to rotate...

Anyway, this is what it looks like when it's all sewn and lined.

Next step...the furry top!  This was interesting... first, we rolled it over to create a cuff then tried to sew it together.  

After the sewing machine refused to sew after fifteen  a bunch of tries, we gave up and started to hand sew it.  Thanks to Grandma for having patience!  Both the burlap and furry fabric needed to be sewn by hand at that point.

The hand sewing I did on my own, that's why it looks exactly like I did it on my own :)

I sewed the frayed edge into the cuff like this:

Then pinned the furry fabric on using bright pins...easy to see that way

and went to work...

I had a little helper the whole time too:

Here is the sewn product:

Now for some accessories, I tried little hanging ornaments, glittery snowflakes, etc and ended up with a simple bow:

added a little loop for hanging...

and there you have it!  Not too bad for a first-timer...I love it!

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Hope you enjoyed & can use this tutorial!  

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