When my parents found out they were having a baby back in 1978, they decided that one of the keepsakes to pass down to me would be a bit of craftiness.
They made a stocking for me. When my borther and sister came along they did the same for them.
When I found out that my sister was expecting her first child, I knew that she would not be making any stockings. I went to Michael's and bought a Jumbo stocking kit to make for Kendall. I thought that this would be her only child and I wasn't planning on having any, so he needed the biggest and the best. It took me nearly a year and a half to finish it.
At the same time, I bought a kit for TP a stocking, so he could have one like everyone else. It languished in the closet for awhile, but I finally got it out and got to work on it.
This one got finished about the time my mother handed over the kit for my other nephew's stocking. Normally there are about 50 setps in the stocking process, this one had 150.
It was my best work yet. Then I found out I was pregnant, and the stocking tradition continues. Or it will once I get off my ass and get to work on it. I've got a bunch of work to do in the next two months if there are going to be toy cars, rattles, balls, and oranges in this stocking:
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This post is brought to you courtesy of Maggie Mason: blogger extraordinare, and authoress of No One Cares What You had for Lunch. It's idea #12.
OMIGOD. Mine is SO similar, but made with felt, no quilty fabric. Lots of sequins though.
And of course, spelled slightly different. hee hee
Posted by: cagey | November 04, 2006 at 10:23 AM
Wow. Those are gorgeous. And I love the idea of homemade stockings -- mine was made for me by my great grandmother, who died when I was just over a year old.
Posted by: Nancy | November 05, 2006 at 07:26 PM
My aunt made mine, and it's 70's patchwork quilt. I love it.
Dude, I gotta get that book. My site is hurtin'.
Posted by: samantha Jo Campen | November 06, 2006 at 01:16 AM
Man, I had no idea you were so handy with the sewing. Teach me!!
Posted by: CPA Mom | November 06, 2006 at 10:02 AM
Those are beautiful! I am crafty with cakes and scrapbooks, but our family stocking tradition is buy a red and white stocking, write the name in glue and sprinkle with glitter. Not so crafty.
Posted by: Stacey | November 07, 2006 at 01:24 PM
You MADE those? Oh hell no you didn't Martha f-ing Stewart. Did you really? I'm so damn impressed. Not that that means much but I really am. I LOVE the blue one. So pretty.
Posted by: Silly Hily | November 08, 2006 at 04:04 PM