Multiple Christmas Stockings - Sister Young Style

 I am putting this down close to Christmas time just in case I want to make multiple stockings again for any cause. I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel - or the engineering of how to make these stockings  quickly.

Sister Young is the wife of the mission leader in the Ghana Accra Mission and wanted to make each of the missionaries a little stocking to put beside their plate at a mission celebrations of Christmas. She had already bought the material cut it into long strips and traced the pattern on each stack. She showed us how to quickly cut, sew, and revert and showed up all the tips.

 The red material is wrong sides together so the white and red are right sides together. Each stack is white red red white and the pattern is traced on the top and a pin holds those four pieces of material together.

Each stocking is cut out together so all quirks are the same throughout each stocking.

She had two white and two red, but next time I will have white on the bottom

Then it is a simple matter to separate the two sides and sew the tops together. I would sew each stocking set right after each other, then reverse the next stocking sides up so I can easily see and keep track of each stocking set.

Reverse each set to keep track of each stocking

Cut between each stocking and stack set pairs up to sew

Tops sewn, open up, finger press, put right sides together

It is easy to take the pin out, separate, sew tops together continuing through the whole stack of stockings one after another.

Clip sets from each other and stack up new pile of sets. Take each set clip apart, put right sides together.

Simple matter to sew closely around the edges leaving a space on the white liner stocking to reverse to the right side. Clip corners and turns if possible.

Sew around both halves leaving place to invert stocking

Invert the whole with a chopstick pushing in from end of red toe until the whole is inverted. Sew up gap in white liner. 

Stack of sewn stockings ready to invert

It was GREAT to have a friend Sherri Despain help invert all those stockings while spending the afternoon chatting!

After the white liner gap is sewn, push liner into stocking, smooth out and then fold down the top.

It is a good idea to iron the stocking after inverting and sewing up the gap. Nice finish.

So....if I ever feel like making a hundred stockings again.....its all here:)