Like most ideas I have (e.g. last minute, high level of effort required), I had a doozy of one for Christmas 2012 - Invasion of Two Sides of the Immediate Family. Sew Christmas Stockings for all
EIGHT people present for Christmas Day!!! This moment of epiphany came to me on November 30th.
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| (c) Thimble Blossoms, 2010. |
Finding a pattern was simple,
Merry Stockings by Thimble Blossoms. At first the math was simple: I'll go ahead and make two of each of the four patterns, customize the fabric for each person and voila!
By the time I made it to Keepsake Cottage Fabrics on Saturday, I already had an idea who was getting which pattern.
After spending 45 minutes with a variety of festive fat quarters, charm packs, and bolts of fabric, it slowly dawned on me. The price for this little 'project' would be, at my current rate, a little more than I could afford. Secondly, all that detail is going to take an awful lot of time that I really don't have. So I simplified my plan. Everyone, with the exception of my dear husband, who had explicitly requested a hexagon stocking, would get the simple stocking pattern, with a fabric tailored to them. Furthermore, I picked two colors of lining: red and green, and all could be stitched with the same color thread. My inner quilter nodded her head in agreement, this was feasible.
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| Ellen's Candy Cane Stocking, 2012 |
The rest of Saturday and early Sunday, I spent cutting my fabric. The
first stocking up, mine, was a good way to iron out the assembly
process. By yesterday evening, after the little one had gone to bed, I was able
to complete my first of eight stockings. (with the exception of machine
embroidery of the name onto the cuff. Behold, my Candy Cane Stocking,
with diamonds.
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| Quilting detail, Ellen's Stocking, 2012 |
