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Rickrack Stocking

Make one-of-a-kind stockings for your loved ones with this handmade holiday craft.

Source
The Martha Stewart Show, December 2006
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Materials

  • Stocking Template
  • Felt
  • Sewing machine
  • Scalloped scissors
  • Needle
  • Thread
  • Rickrack
  • Hot glue

Steps

  1. Step 1 of 8

    Download and print Stocking Template. Trace onto 2 pieces of felt.

    Stocking Template
  2. Step 2 of 8

    Machine stitch pieces together, then cut around sewn pattern with scalloped scissors.
  3. Step 3 of 8

    Add hanging loop by hand-sewing felt strip inside top of stocking edge.
  4. Step 4 of 8

    Cut rickrack to length of 13 bumps, making sure ends point in same direction. Glue ends so they don't fray.
  5. Step 5 of 8

    Using a knotted thread, start at pointed tip and sew one stitch through each bump. Pull thread so rickrack folds in on itself. Push out tops to make floret shape.
  6. Step 6 of 8

    Whip-stitch glued ends of rickrack together in the back.
  7. Step 7 of 8

    Add pips to florets by cutting off ends of pips to about 1/4-inch length. Using tweezers, hot-glue pre-cut pips to center of florets.
  8. Step 8 of 8

    Hot glue florets onto stockings.

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