Simple Sewing Pattern for a Christmas Stocking

Looking to brighten up your mantle this Christmas? Learn how to make this beautiful, handmade quilted Christmas Stocking pattern with this step by step tutorial and free pattern.

Simple Sewing Pattern for a Christmas Stocking

Not long now! Are you getting everything ready for the holidays? Is your home already decorated and are the kids already driving you crazy wanting to know when Santa will arrive?

If you don’t already have your Christmas stockings hung up, then you might consider making your own this year. These scrappy quilted Christmas stockings made are perfect for using up scraps from other holiday projects, or for a jelly roll. They’re padded, nice quality and have a fluffy fur topping. These will last for years as decorations on your mantle and will be the perfect way to deliver presents from Santa.

–Looking for other ways to decorate your home this Christmas? Check out these Old Fashioned Christmas Decorations & Vintage Christmas Decor 

Quilted Christmas Stocking Pattern

Materials:

• Scraps of festive fabrics or a Jelly Roll (Get it from Fabric.com)
• Thin fleece or batting – two pieces
• Faux fur
• Lining fabric
• Ribbon or cord for hanging
• Christmas Stocking Pattern

–Before starting, check out these 7 Simple Tools Every Beginning Seamstress Must Have

Watch me make these Christmas Stockings

How to Make Handmade Quilted Christmas Stockings

Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to make these scrappy Christmas stockings. If you need help with any of these steps, you can refer to the video above, which might be clearer for you.

First, print and assemble your pattern. Use it as a rough template to cut out a piece of fleece or batting about an inch or so larger all around. Remember to flip over your pattern piece over to cut the second side, so you’ll make opposites.

Position your fabric scraps or jelly roll strips on the quilted stocking pattern until you have a layout of colors you are happy with. You can place them straight across or at an angle like this example.

–Check out this post on Where to Buy Cheap Fabric for all of your sewing projects.

Start from roughly the center of your pattern and place your first two strips, right sides together. Stitch them with a 1/4 inch seam allowance, right onto the batting layer. Open out your first two strips and finger press.

Now you are ready to work on either side. Place your next strip of fabric right side down matching raw edges and stitch again. Open, press and repeat on both sides of the center strips until your piece of batting is completely covered. Give it a good press.

Optional – If you wanted a more quilted look, you can choose to quilt the fabric strips with a simple running stitch through the fabric strips to give them a little more definition and a quilted effect. Repeat for the other side, remembering to make it the opposite way to the first one.

Use your pattern piece to cut out the ready quilted pieces, then place them right sides together and sew around the outside, but NOT across the top. Clip your seams around the curves.

Sew up your lining pieces the same way, leaving an open gap or 5 or so inches in one of the straight edges, clip the curves.

–Looking for a similar project using scraps or leftover jellyroll? Try these cute Snowman Pot Holders.

Cut a piece of faux fur to decorate around the top of your stocking. Mine measures 4 inches deep by 15 wide. Stitch the two short ends together to make a tube. Slide the tube over the top of the stocking and pin in place with the top edges matching and the fur on the outside. Baste to hold the fur in place.

Slide the outer stocking down inside the lining, with the right sides together and the wrong side of the lining facing out. Match the top edges.

If you want to add a hanging loop, cord or ribbon, slide this between the fur and the lining with the loop facing down inside, and match it up with the back seam. Stitch all around the top of the stocking through all layers. Turn the right way out through the gap in the lining and press.

Close the gap with hand or machine stitching and push it down inside the stocking and your simple, scrappy quilted Christmas stocking is ready to stuff and hang.

Now that you’re stockings are done, check out these other posts to get you ready for Christmas:

• Simple Christmas Gift Exchange Ideas for the Whole Family
• How to Get Organized by Using a Christmas Master Checklist
• Christmas on the Homestead
• Christmas Gift Baskets
• Old Fashioned Christmas Cookie Recipes
• Sweet Penny Treats for the Holidays
• Simple Homemade Gifts

 Have you hung up your Christmas stockings yet? Do you have handmade stockings?

This Quilted Christmas Stocking Pattern was originally published on Little House Living in December 2014. It has been updated as of November 2019.