I need 12 stockings for Christmas this year and couldn't find any really nice ones during the after-Christmas sales. I wasn't looking foward to setting foot into a fabric store (money somehow flies directly out of my pockets and into their registers).
Putting clothes away for the winter...EUREKA!! I started making them out of "found" fabric from around the house:
Blue Jeans - these look amazing! I did one that has the top rolled down like a cuff, one with the back pocket in the front, one covered with patches, etc... they even have the belt loops sewn on to hang them up. I cut up my "skinny pants,"
but any old or ripped pair will work fine.
Sweat shirts, fleece shirts, sweaters, heavier shirts and tee-shirts, men's dress shirts...Buttons and zippers incorporated into the stockings give them character.
Jeans and long sleeved shirts yield about 2-3 standard sized stockings, if cut carefully.
Dish towels, my old baby blanket (I'm only CONSIDERING this one for my mother), an orphaned pillow case, a large winter scarf, old flannel pyjamas...
I could go on, but someone is eyeing me and my scissors with suspicion and hiding a handful of his neckties.
