DIY Tiny Stocking Bunting — A Free Tutorial

I have a fun little tutori­al to share with you today.    This sweet Tiny Christ­mas Stock­ing Bunt­ing is a  great way to dec­or­ate your fest­ive table or room.   It’s per­fect for Christ­mas in July cel­eb­ra­tions and just as great for any­one want­ing to start their Christ­mas sew­ing early this year!

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own Tiny Stock­ing Bunting:

• scraps of fab­ric approx­im­ately 8″ square
• wad­ding
• stock­ing tem­plate (click here to print yours now along with the step by step tutorial)
• coordin­at­ing embroid­ery floss to make the stock­ing hangers
• coordin­at­ing string, ric rac or ribbon
• a skew­er or small crochet hook
• gen­er­al sew­ing supplies

Ready to get star­ted?    I’ve been try­ing out a little bit of video edit­ing (be kind to me!) so today’s tutori­al is com­ing right at you in two forms.   The first is this quick video…

And of course, there’s step-by-step pho­tos you can fol­low as well -:).

For each stock­ing you will need one 1 ¹⁄₄″ x 8″ strip and one 4 ¹⁄₂″ x 8″ strip.   With right sides facing sew the strips togeth­er using a ¹⁄₄″ seam allow­ance.   Press the seams open when your done.

Pop the tem­plate (if you haven’t already you can do so by click­ing here) on to the pieced strip.  Make sure that the top edge of the tem­plate is lined up with the top edge of the pieced strip.   Trace one stock­ing then flip the tem­plate over and trace a second stock­ing in the oppos­ite dir­ec­tion as shown.

Care­fully cut out each shape.

Pop the two stock­ing shapes togeth­er with right sides facing.    That’s always a tricky photo to take so make sure yours are cor­rectly aligned!   Pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to make sure the seams on both sides match.   Once you’ve done that pin everything in place to make sure it does­n’t slip while you are sewing.

Use a small amount of wad­ding to puff the stock­ing shape out.   Less is def­in­itely more when it comes to the wad­ding, you’re going for slightly puffy not overly stuffed.

Cut a length of coordin­at­ing embroid­ery thread approx­im­ately 4″ long.  Fold it in half and then double it over and tie a knot in it.  The knot will need to be no more than ³⁄₄″ from the top of the loop and is used to hold the ‘hook’ in place inside the stocking.

Place the knot­ted end of the looped embroid­ery thread inside the stock­ing.   Pin to hold the hook in place and the open­ing closed.

Sew the open­ing at the top of the stock­ing closed using a scant ¹⁄₈″ seam allowance.

Thread lots of tiny stock­ings on to a piece of string approx­im­ately 5″ apart and then hang it everywhere!

The num­ber of tiny stock­ing needed depends entirely on the length of bunt­ing you’re mak­ing.  Make them as long or as short as you like!

If you like the look of the fab­ric I used keep an eye out for Makower Fab­rics Mod­ern Metal­lic range.  I love how it works with the decor in my house.   Christ­mas without being overly Christ­massy and super cute for little pil­lows as well as bunt­ing!    The pil­low here was made using my Christ­mas Tree Mini pat­tern, I left the bor­ders off to give it a clean­er, mod­ern look.   PDF and paper pat­terns are avail­able in my shop which has a new look and easy to nav­ig­ate menu’s!   You can check out the new look by click­ing here.

Have a happy week,