Stockings

A stitched stocking is the mantel's main event, and these projects let the embroidery machine build it: quilting, seaming, and finishing handled in the hoop, with every step sequenced inside the file. Hang a set the family teases you about in October and admires in December.

The compact collection covers the personalities. ITH Christmas Stockings sets one through four carry the classic shapes, the ITH Quilted Stockings bring the heirloom patchwork look, and North Pole adds the storybook version. Character sets pair up nicely, Santa and Rudolph, Penguin and Snowman, with a Nutcracker set for traditional households and a Sewing Themed stocking for the person who made all the others. Even the pets are covered: dog and cat ornament stockings, sized for a treat rather than an orange.

Most stitchers add a name across the cuff, and the embroidery lettering collection exists for exactly that. Once the stockings are hung, the wider in the hoop Christmas workshop fills the mantel around them, tree skirt included.

Every stocking project downloads at purchase. Stitch the set now; December will not schedule itself.