Christmas Stockings

The new baby won't be here by this Christmas (hopefully) but I wanted our family to have new matching stockings.  I wanted to do this last year and just never got to it.

This is one of five that I need to make.  Actually I wanted to make more just in case of future kids, then I would have matching ones, but now I'm not so sure.  It's not that it was hard, it's just that it was more time consuming than I expected and I'm a very impatient person :)

I want to make each one different but I'm not sure what I'm going to do on the others yet.  I was going to wait to post this until I had all of them done but it might take me a while and I wanted to post this just in case anyone wanted the idea for their own!  But I will post the others when they're finished.

I took 4 pieces of paper and taped them together.  I drew the pattern free handed (if you couldn't tell) and cut the pattern out.  I cut the decorative piece out and put all of the outside stuff on first.  Then I sewed that to a piece of felt that would make the front inside.  I cut out another piece of felt to make the back.

UPDATE:
After I posted this, I wasn't loving the button look on the pleats at the top.  It was too plain.  Then I remembered a tutorial from My Blonde Ambitions to make super easy flowers.  I hadn't ever made them before and now I love them! They are really easy and I just used scrap fabric that I had.