{"id":2506,"date":"2015-12-23T00:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2015-12-23T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:46:20","slug":"christmas-stocking-finished-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/christmas-stocking-finished-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas stocking, finished at last\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2527\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas stockings\" width=\"536\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997.jpg 536w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997-150x224.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7997-300x448.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 85vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">finished at last<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m celebrating finally finishing two Christmas stockings I began 8 years ago. The children for whom I began making them were 7 and 11, are now 15 and 19. If you want the whole story check out my archive for December 2012and January 2013. Suffice to say Christmas is always a busy time and sometimes you just have to prioritise, Sewing takes second place to shopping, cooking and cleaning only once a year, at Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2528\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas stocking\" width=\"465\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998.jpg 465w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998-174x300.jpg 174w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998-150x258.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7998-300x516.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 85vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">both finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So beginning where I left off, one of the stockings was quilted and ready to be made up, the other was not. I wanted them to be the same and I had lost the quilting templates, 5 little cardboard stars in graduated sizes which I created using cookie cutters, which I had also subsequently lost, and to this day have not turned up\u2026 I suspect foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the templates did turn up, and this Christmas I was determined to finish what I\u2019d started. I used a disappearing pen, (which for some reason isn\u2019t disappearing) and drew the stars on the lining of the stocking, then putting the gold thread in the spool and a transparent thread on the top I quilted from the back stars in different sizes to fill the spaces round the motif in the centre of the stocking leg, and in the foot of the stocking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2526\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas stockings\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963-300x282.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963-150x141.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7963-600x564.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">final finishing touches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Putting the right sides together I stitched the two halves around the edge with a generous 3\/8ths seam allowance to make it easier to neaten the edges. To finish the seams on the inside I cut away the wadding, and hand stitched the lining closed over the raw edges down to the bottom of the leg. Beyond there the foot still has raw edges showing, well not showing, but that\u2019s the point, you can\u2019t see it so I\u2019m not going to worry about it, I may overlock the raw edges with a machine stitch\u2026when I have a minute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001.jpg\" alt=\"christmas stocking\" width=\"800\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001-150x138.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7953-001-600x552.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">another mistake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next, I had to make the swing tags for each stocking, cutting two squares of fabric for each tag, and applying a gold letter to the green side of each. I worried that the gold letter might eventually peel off having been applied with Bondaweb, so I used my gold thread again and stitched around the edge with a machine blanket stitch, not very accurately I have to say, but I wasn\u2019t about to unpick and start again.<\/p>\n<p>Right sides together again, with a little wadding on the back, I made another mistake; if you leave the hole to turn the fabric at a corner you\u2019ll never achieve a neat closure\u2026 unpicked and did it again, this time with the turning gap amidships.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2520\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955.jpg\" alt=\"christmas stocking\" width=\"800\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955-300x274.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955-150x137.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7955-600x548.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">better, all 4 corners stitched and clipped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having snipped the corners and turned each tag right ways out, I neatly closed the open edge by hand. Then I topstitched a gold border using another fancy machine stitch like the one I used on the stocking motifs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2522\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Stocking\" width=\"800\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957-150x146.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7957-600x583.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ribbon loop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally a loop of ribbon was attached to the back of each tag, these ribbons tend to get ragged over time so rather than stitch it into the seam I\u2019ve just tacked it to the back. The 15 year old is a Millennium baby, born in 2000, and when I first knew him at 7 he couldn\u2019t say Millennium, he would a say Millellium, or Minnellium, it has always been a thing I could tease him with, so I used some ribbon I had tucked away since the Millennium, it has \u201cMarking the Millennium\u201d printed on it. Maybe if he keeps and treasures his stocking, it may make him smile every Christmas\u2026long after my day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2523\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960.jpg\" alt=\"christmas stocking\" width=\"800\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_7960-600x560.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">millennium ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And so they are completed and hung up ready for Christmas\u2026 now all I have to do is help the 19 year old make a wall hanging, and start the wrapping, with only 3 days left till Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas stocking\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8000-600x425.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and here&#8217;s a few I made earlier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m celebrating finally finishing two Christmas stockings I began 8 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,11,3,48],"tags":[32,636,73,923,912,925,196,921,651,648,637,924,904,922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}