Christmas Stockings and Hanger

Not only are my Christmas Stockings finally finished.... but so is the stocking hanger!
I ended up changing the stocking with the big white ruffle. It looked too out of place. I am proud of my stockings but I am in love with my stocking hanger. I really love how it turned out. Mainly because it was so easy. Much easier than the stockings. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that once this baby is out, we're a family of 5. That's crazy!

Here's a close up.

Countdown Blocks

Okay, I know that there's not 11 days until Christmas... thank goodness. But these sides had the cutest papers and looked best in the picture.

These were super easy to make. I bought a 4 x 4 and a 2 x 4 and had them cut into 4" blocks and the bottom is 8". Then just sand, paint, mod podge the paper on, print the vinyl off and stick it on there.

I was planning on making a bunch of these for gifts for Christmas gifts but I'm on bed rest right now and only managed to make one set. Which I probably shouldn't have done :)

If anyone is interested in making these, I have all of the supplies that you could buy from me. You would need your own paint and mod podge, though. But for the blocks, vinyl, and paper, I would sell this for $8. Let me know if you're interested!

Christmas Stocking 3/5

Boy, I sure am taking my sweet time finishing these! I also need to make my new stocking hanger. Hopefully sometime soon.  Especially since those are about the only Christmas things that I don't yet have up.  I love this time of year!

Christmas Stockings 2/5

While I was blog hopping this morning, I came across a blog called The Bird's Papaya. She made this ADORABLE ruffled cowl scarf (which is my next project) and I decided that was the perfect idea for my next stocking. Off to work I went and this is what I came up with. I know the white kind of stands out a little bit but I think it's fun. It kind of reminds me of Santa's beard.

2 stockings down, 3 to go! The only problem is, I'm trying to make them match while making them all different. Any ideas are very welcome!

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.