Blue Jean Christmas Stockings

I was experimenting with the idea of making a Christmas stocking out of an old pair of jeans. I whipped these up - did not finish the inside because I was just experimenting. I had saw a few stockings made with the back pocket as the main part of the front of the stocking. I wanted to give it a try!

                                                    

I had some left over buffalo plaid to put on the back for both of the stockings. 

This one is made out of the pant leg.

They looked pretty good hung up. I think I will add some greenery and some ribbons to them next year and may hand them on the front door!

I shared them on Facebook and before I knew it, I was making 9 more stocking for a friend of mine. She is a fellow barrel racer. She asked if I needed jeans to make them and I said sure! She dropped off  just enough pairs of jeans so I could make them all using her jeans. 

As I started to make them, I soon discovered that I wasn’t going to be able to make them with the back pockets on them. Her pants legs were too small!! I change directions and decided to make them stripped instead.

I did the quilting as a sewed the stockings together. 

I tried to make the all a little different but the same! The back of the stocking is similar to the front. I didn’t have enough of her blue jeans to make the back so I added a chunk of the jean material I had left over from the Patchwork Flying Geese quilt. 

The inside of the stocking was either more buffalo plaid or a combination of red material with the buffalo plaid. I wanted the cuff of the stocking to be buffalo plaid so they could be turned over.

To finish off the stockings, I added each initial to the front of the stockings. 

I am always worried when I make things for people that they won’t like what I’ve done or they thought they would turn out different. I wasn’t able to deliver these directly and had to wait to hear what they thought of them.  This is the message I received: 

“Omg. These stockings are above and beyond. You did a superb job with them. So much work and craftsmanship went into them. Thank you so much.”

Then I received a video on Christmas Day that showed them all hung on the fireplace and a message that said “They were a hit! Thank you again”.

 They looked fantastic with her decorations!!

I love making things like this for people!!

Happy New Year!

ME