Ready for Santa to come |
This Christmas there will be two more people at our house to celebrate. Our younger son and his wife had a little boy in April and our older son is bringing his girlfriend. That means two more stockings for the mantle.
Miles' stocking before |
Emily's stocking before |
Our younger son bought a stocking for me to put a name on to hang up for our grandson. Of course I couldn't just put a name on it. I also embroidered a polar bear wrapped in lights that I had gotten from Embroidery Library.
For our older son's girlfriend I bought a plain stocking at the store to embellish. I used an appliqué design from Designs by JuJu.
Stitching on the deconstructed stocking |
The easiest way for me to do the stitching was to take the stocking mostly apart so I could hoop it flat on sticky paper. I printed out templates of the designs, including their names. I decided on placement and marked the stocking. Then I attached it to the sticky paper and did the stitching.
Miles' finished stocking |
It was then easy enough to just stitch them back together and they were ready to hang with the rest of the family.
Welcome Miles and Emily.
Emily's finished stocking |