I hinted a couple times that most of my time was being spent working on a super secret present. First of all, i finished it in time! Woo! And sent it at the beginning of October. (it takes 3 weeks to get to systems from here which is ridiculous but true) and it arrived in time for her birthday!
And I can finally share it all with you.
Christmas stockings with rather unchristmassy fabric. The cuffs are across stitched with the inhabitants of the house. The doggos and the…. Cat..o? What do you call the cat in Australian speak, Tracey?
Anyway their names and little paw prints. Here’s a zoooom of the cross stitching:
If you follow my blog then you will probably recognise the red cross stitching fabric as the same as I am using in my massive christmas cross stitch project. I bought a very large piece of it so that I would have enough to do both.
I designed the cross stitch on the computer using my favourite font then stitched it up, which was the bit I was worried would take too long to get it done in time but it went quite quickly.
The stockings are all lined too and here is some shots of me trying to get a picture that shows it….
It’s the first time I tried sewing these so I’m really happy with how they turned out though they are far from perfect. And I did accidentally sew one of the cuffs with the cross stitch sealed inside at one point but it got fixed!
Here they are all looking like a family….
Five stockings and a bag later I still have rather a lot of the butterfly fabric left over so expect more things made out of it!
My adventures in sewing continue.
Those are cute! You did a great job!
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Thank you!
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They’re wicked! Got me feeling all festive 🤗
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Yay. I’m glad they come across as festive even with the butterfly fabric haha
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Well you generally don’t make stockings for anything else but Christmas haha plus I love that fabric
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Those are really cute, and I ♥️ that Noel ribbon!
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Should I feel bad that you picked the one thing I didn’t make? Haha no I’m kidding. I spent AGES picking the ribbon so yay :p
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😂
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Wow, those are adorable! I need to learn to sew!
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I’m definitely no master. I just bought the pattern, most of it was really easy apart from sewing the cuff on to the body but that wasn’t difficult so much as fiddly. But then I did make them smaller than the pattern said, it would probably be much easier full size.
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Those look awesome! 😎
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Thanks 🙂
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They are gorgeous. You did a fantastic job.xXx
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Thank you! They turned out better than I’d hoped lol
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I’m still a novice with my sewing machine that I’ve had for about 4 years. Lol
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Very nice 🙂
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well done Jessica – a lovely stocking set which will be brought out year after year after year ^^
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They’re lovely, great fabric and colour choices too, festive but not over the top!
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Aw, what a sweet set of stockings! You did a great job! Sewed, lined and cross stitched! Awesome!!
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What a lovely gift! Your friend must be thrilled.
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That I am!
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Awesome! How do you create cross stitch designs on a computer?
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Thanks. I use a cross stitch program called pc stitch. Which I think was about £30 if I remembered right.
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OMG! I would have never guessed that! Thanks for sharing Jessica, going to check it out now.
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