Made Christmas Stocking Bunting

A few weeks ago, I spotted this felt stocking bunting on Etsy. I've bought plenty of things on Etsy, but I only let myself buy something in the "I could make that" category if my next sentence is "But I won't."

I didn't love the shape of the stockings, and I already had some of the felt, so I picked up 3 meters (one spool) of cream and red "Merry Christmas" ribbon (from East Of India) at Blackthorpe Barn. I also bought three small pieces of felt at the craft store in Bury - plain red, plain green, and dark green with sparkles. Mmm...sparkles. 

Ahem. I already had the lime green and grey felt from a previous crafting adventure.

I did a google image search for a Christmas stocking silhouette, and found this one that had a shape I liked and a straight line across the top. I resized it in Word (just the image) until it was about 6cm across the top.


I traced around my template (backwards!) on the back of the felt with a ballpoint pen. It worked pretty well, except on the dark green, which was really hard to see.


You know you love the tiny green sparkly Christmas stocking.


I cut out three of each colour, then played around until I found an order I liked. 


I had originally thought I would thread the ribbon through slots in the stockings, but then changed my mind. I used the "Merry Christmas" on the ribbon to make sure my spacing was even, and sewed the stockings to the ribbon by hand, leaving a little bit of the stocking peeking out at the top.

(This task was much improved by singing along to Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and the Sesame Street Christmas album.)


I tied the stitching in a knot at the back and tucked the ends in.


Here it is, in progress:



And all finished and hung up! 


Comments

  1. Industrious, pretty and informative: apply adjectives to nouns as you see fit. :)

    (Slightly confused by second sentence which seemed the wrong way round to me, but I may have ducked to miss the bunting and missed the subtle humour.

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    1. I think it's the right way round...I've not bought it because I thought I could make it, and knew that I would.

      (Also, I've added a "like" button for you! :)

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    2. Ah, I'm with you now - couldn't understand why you would buy something you knew you weren't going to make.

      :)

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  2. BTW, is there anything you can do to move your blog onto GMT rather than PST (or is it just me?)

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    1. Fixed! (Not sure why it was doing that...)

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