This felt Santa stocking would look adorable inside any doll's house for Christmas! Use tiny ribbons, buttons, and a chenille stem to make old St. Nick look three dimensional and uniquely handcrafted. Then stuff the cheerful little stocking with all kinds of toys and treats for your dolls this Christmas Eve.
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| Trim a felt stocking with a jolly old elf. |
- white chenille stem
- red and white, and flesh colored felt
- green ribbon for trim
- white buttons
- rose and black embroidery floss
- embroidery needle or needle with a large eye (opening)
- one white pom pom
- needles or sewing machine for stitching
- stocking pattern
- white chalk (for tracing the pattern)
- hot glue and hot glue gun is optional
- scissors
- red wool (optional)
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| Christmas stocking pattern, click. |
- Download and print the free pattern provided on the right. You can choose to make this stocking version in several sizes. I made the stocking from the heaviest line shown. Pull the pattern into a Word Doc software program to alter the pattern however you like and print it on your home computer.
- Cut out the stocking shape, pin it to the red felt fabric and trace around the shape using white chalk.
- You will need to identical stockings cut from the red felt. Then you will need to stitch these two pieces together all the way around the outside of the stocking excluding the top, of course.
- The top must be left open for gifts. You may attach a green ribbon around this open edge using a needle and thread or hot glue if you prefer. Include also a small loop made from the ribbon so that the doll sized stocking may be hung from a bedpost or from a hook in front of your doll's fireplace.
- Next, cut out the beard pattern included with the printable from white felt. You will only need one beard shape. Attach this using either glue or a needle and thread to the front of your stocking. If sewing it on make sure that you don't sew your stitching all the way through both the front and back of your stocking! You will need to separate the two using a couple of fingers inserted inside the small stockings while you work the needle in and out of the fabric.
- Sew on a small circle of flesh colored felt for Santa's face.
- Attach a folded triangle of red felt for his hat. Trim this with a white felt rectangle to suggest fur and attach a small pom pom to the tip of Santa's hat to finish it off properly.
- Bend the chenille stem into a mustache and attach this between the face and beard using glue or thread.
- Sew on as many white buttons as you can fit into the beard!
- Clip, fit and trim on tiny flesh colored ears.
- Using black embroidery floss, stitch in his tiny eyes/eyebrows and use rose floss to add tiny cheeks. If you don't want to sew these facial features you could use puff paints or beads to apply similar
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| You don't need to attach Santa's likeness to every doll stocking you make. We made two more versions using the same stocking pattern that look quite different. Left, is a festive red and green Christmas print with lace and tiny Christmas novelties trimming at top. Center, white satin stocking trimmed with a candy cane sequin, patch. |
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