A new grandson arrived earlier in the year, which meant another Christmas stocking was needed! I used my favourite stocking pattern, Waiting for Santa by the Australian designer Leanne Beasley and teamed it up with a selection of red prints by another Australian designer, Lynette Anderson. I wrote Rory's name onto fabric using a fine tipped Micron Pigma pen, then stitched over the letters using 3 strands of red Cosmo thread...
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...the name tag was stiched in place using an antique button and perle thread. I absolutely LOVE this festive print with the cute gingerbread men and hearts on it! I think the best part of preparing this stocking was shopping for some goodies to tuck inside it. A last minute shopping trip to Wooodbridge, my local market town, was very productive - a cute pop-up book called Crocodile by Mick Inkpen, some baby biscotti biscuits, a toy for chubby little fingers to play with and a cute pair of reindeer ear muffs to keep his ears cosy...
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...now these goodies just need to be tucked inside and it can be hung up on the fireplace, ready for Rory to discover in the morning!
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