Here's another Christmas holiday make, this time it's for my new five-year-old niece who joined the family in December.It's a stocking of about 28cm tall and 22cm across the foot.
It's not pieced, it's just fancy pre-printed faux patchwork cotton fabric I got at the SECC Hobbycrafts in 2007. The boot shape for you to cut round is printed on the cloth, and there are still three more boots of different designs left on my fabric piece.
The lining fabrics are gold on green, one having decorative smudges and the other "merry christmas", all lower case.
The wadding is a re-purposed padded pillow protector, and I machine quilted it with straight stitches along the grid pattern of the design.
The hanger is a little strip of spare fabric with musical notes on it which was an off-cut from my main piece. That little
hanger was a devil to turn the right way out, even with sock knitting needles to help!The recipient wasn't exactly enthusiastic, but I was showing her it on New Year's Day, maybe next Christmas when it's stuffed with goodies it will come into its own! As she joined the family in mid-December I didn't have the chance to finish it in time for the big day.
I hand-stitched the red bias binding round the top. It wasn't exactly quick but it has given it a good finish.
There will be more patchwork and quilting in my coming posts this week, but don't worry if you're all Christmassed-out, there won't be any more Christmas projects for a while yet. x K
1 comment:
I would of never guessed that this is printed fabric, not pieced.I like it a lot1
Nice work!
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