Hi, I'm Kathy Moore, also known as Fern Fiddlehead.
I'm here at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, New York, and I'm going to show you how to make a stocking.
So the next thing you're going to do is you're going to sew the lining, which is the same
shape as the stocking, but it's a little bit taller.
You're going to attach it the same way that you attached the stocking pieces.
You're going to put it right sides together, and you're going to sew a quarter of an inch.
The only difference is that you want to leave a little opening, because you're actually
going to have to turn everything through a little opening.
So we're going to sew, and then we're going to stop.
We're going to leave like a four-inch gap, and then we're going to sew the rest of the
way, all the way around.
So I sewed down, then I stopped, and then I left this open.
I'm going to start sewing again down here.
I'm going to clip my seams, just like I did on the outside of the stocking.
And that just keeps the fabric from bunching up, and if you don't clip, it kind of pulls.
Okay, now we're going to do something that's going to feel a little bit strange as you're
doing it.
You're going to take the lining that you just finished sewing, and you're not going to turn
it right side out.
You're just going to leave it as it is.
And there is this hole here that we left that you're going to use later on.
You're going to take your stocking piece, which you have turned right side out, and you're
going to put it inside the lining.
You don't have to be real careful about it, you just want to make sure that the heel is
going in the same direction on the stocking as it is on the lining.
And you just want to line up the top part.
You don't have to worry about getting this flat down here, because we're going to turn
everything.
So you're just going to line up the top part, like so, raw edges together, and then we're
going to sew a quarter of an inch all the way around the top.
Because the lining piece was bigger than the stocking, when we turn everything right
side out, there's going to be enough of the lining to actually come up and over the stocking.
You'll see it when I'm finished, but it actually creates a nice little kind of a cuff.
So I'm just lining up the seams, and I'm keeping the raw edges together.
Everything's sewn together.
And then I'm going to go through my little hole opening here, and first thing I'm going
to do is I'm just going to pull out the stocking.
I'm going to turn the lining now, too.
And then I'm going to take the, so it looks like this.
We want to now close this opening.
So you're going to fold it, and then I just give it a quick press, just to hold the folded
edges down.
And then I'm going to sew, just to sew that whole close, basically, so you don't lose
any toys inside between your stocking and your lining.
That would be bad.
And you're just so close to the edge.
It doesn't really matter what the seam looks like, because it's all going to be inside
the stocking, so you don't have to be real fussy with that.
So now I closed up that seam, and I'm going to take my lining, and I'm going to put it
inside the stocking.
But when you turn it, you have a little bit more lining, and then that gives you a nice
border at the top of your stocking.
If you didn't want to have this border, just make the lining piece and your stocking piece
exactly the same height.
And then when you turn it, it'll look like this, where the fabric ends here and the lining
starts here.
So I'm just going to sew around the top to give it a nice, clean, finished look.
And here we go.
Here's the finished stocking.
It's very clean and simple, and it doesn't take long at all to make.
