Wow!! Looks amazing!

How does one keep the scissors sharp! ??

Thank you for this! I'm helping 6th graders do this project for school and without this video I was lost.

THANK YOU so much for this video because I was doing something totally different from just trying to interpret the picture on the kit.

Just started on this kit after about a 7 month break from Bucilla kits-had a lot of other things I needed to work on. Thank you for the excellent tutorial, I initially didn’t sew the red mushroom stem pieces and bottom right sides together. Fixed that and it looks so much better!

Brillant -thanks! Dropping the thread down is just the hack I needed!

Brilliant!!

EXCELLENT and to the point!! THANK YOU!!!!!! ❤

Thank you. I’m making my 1st stocking. I have to keep referring to your videos. Appreciate the videos

Am I supposed to separate each floss? Each strand separate?

Thank you so much!

I love how you go back through and make a knot to secure the sequins in case one comes loose. Very few people realize how much time and patience that little practice saves in last-minute repairs! I also love how you hand sew them for the same reason. They make presser feet for sewing machines and little feeders for pre-strung sequins and beads, but the ones I've seen just sew around the beads and sequins, only securing the thread that strings the beads together to the fabric. What a disaster such a thing could present! There are no shortcuts with projects like these! It's so good to see someone who knows and understands the value of hand-sewn detail work like this!

How do you keep the stitches straight? Sometimes mine are ok and then other times they are crooked.

How do you keep the stitches straight? Sometimes mine are ok and then other times they are crooked.

Another question please. Doing a lot of these stockingsand finding sometimes short of sequins. Company will send more but takes along time. Do you know of any stores that carry them or somewhere online. Can't find them with beads,to attach them

Where can I get comb for fringe? And thanks for the video was big help!

I use 4lb Crystal Fireline to sew 99% of my stockings. The line is clear and disappears into the felt. I never see the line unless my stitches are too big. Changing threads is no usually necessary. The other thing I do is use #11 Miyuki Delica beads - silver lined - in the colors the sequins are. The clear beads supplied are not good - broken and a lot of them drilled too small for a beading needle to go through. I love the dressed up hang tag you do! Imma steal that idea! 🙂

This was the first felt stocking I made, in the original colors for my granddaughter. Love these new colors also!

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I used it on my first stocking kit, which I just finished and it looks so nice thanks to the lining. I’m a novice sewist but your instructions are simple and clear so even I could do it. Thank you so much.

❤ Thank you!

Thank you! They're incredible!

Great video! Those are really cute! I’d love to see your embellishments to them when you finally do it. 🍄

What about adding some pinto beans so the mushrooms can stand up?

I wanted to do the Elegant Stocking. It is a white on white Father Christmas with semi-quilted running lines sewn with a metallic thread. I am going to have to scrape around 30 squares with each square having four unique dashed lines for over 120 tiny lines. Then, I get to sew without the guidelines. I do not recommend this pattern. It is going to be a real headache. Better to have a pattern on the back side and a light box to shine through. I may try to redo the whole stocking with unmarked white felt picked up at JoAnn's.

Thank you. Very helpful.

You need to speak louder it is very hard to hear you

This video helped me a ton I'm awaiting my very first kit and have been practicing with an old set I found at a garage sale. The legend included in mine is not as detailed and well explained as the kit your using. I'm guessing because they've progressed so far since starting. My kit must be old... "Santa and snowmen fence 84264"

Perfect video for the question I had. Thank you!

How do you end it?

Also, will you post your own family’s stockings (names blurred or whatever you do to feel safe)? I can only imagine they are just fabulous!! I am just so inspired having seen this and a couple more of your videos!! I’m spending my Thanksgiving day by myself (we will gather and celebrate on Saturday-it’s all good!) and plan to get a BUNCH of that stocking done! She is now nearly a month old-gotta have that stocking finished by her first Christmas!!

Hi Michelle, I just found you and subscribed. I was wondering where you posted the finished stocking here and the pics of her grandkids with all their stockings? I would love to see them! I LOVE that she wants all the embellishments rearranged and reconfigured!! I am doing my very first kit for my first granddaughter. I did custom velvet stockings for my three grandsons, the most recent of which was a couple years ago. My grandmother made mine and my siblings’ stockings in this tradition, velvet outer with many felt and sequined adornments with a contrasting satin lining. My sister’s is 67 years old now, mine is 64 and my brother’s is 61. All three are still just gorgeous! (My brother’s had to have a new satin lining at some point because he left an orange in the toe when he was little!! EW!) Anyway, I made my oldest grand’s with a gaming theme, and his younger brother’s with a monster truck theme, and my youngest grandson’s with a toy theme. But for my first and only (so far) granddaughter I went with a Bucilla kit, “A Christmas Skate”. I’m putting the various parts and pieces on a blue-velvet-with-lamé-stars sky background and plain blue velvet base stocking with a pink or burgundy satin lining (still trying to decide). I wish I had found your channel before I got started but I am SO thrilled I did now since I am still in the making of it! At your inspiration I may have to go back and re-think all three of my grandsons’ stockings now!! I am so very thankful for your tips and techniques! Your work (and sewing room) is beautiful!! Thanks!

I love your changes! Can you give more detail about how you wrapped the tree’s candy canes with 5 strands of floss rather than satin stitch? Was that easier or did you just like the looks better?

How do you attach the cording to the stocking when it's this thick? I did green and gold and came out great! Just have to figure out how to attach it now lol

Thanks so much!

Hi I just now started following you and you are wonderful. I am working on my 6th Bucilla Stocking and have a question in several tutorials I see all color sequins in one bowl. Is that how you work on every stocking??

Never sewn much before… ordered a stocking to make my daughter though because I always loved the ones my mom and her siblings had from my grandma. This was very helpful in understanding what to expect

Thank you. I could not follow those directions on the package at all

Hi there, what font is that you used?

What is that little machine you have? That would so handy.

Great idea 👍

I was wondering if you put the light in your tree? If so did you do a video of it?

Thank you for the extra help with these candy canes! This will be so helpful!

1 or 2 strands?

You say Dream Wool isn’t much more than poly-fil but the cheapest I can find on Amazon is for a twin sized bed and it’s $47. Am I looking at the wrong stuff? Quilters Dream Wool Batting Twin Size 72" x 93"

Can I make the train first before adding it ti the skirt?

I’m somewhat new to this, I’ve made about 10 stockings. I’ve yet to have the front match the back and always end up trimming the back to match. Is that normal or am I doing something wrong? Thank you

I appliqué like a savage I guess 😂 also I didn’t hear a word you said.

Those are really nice. I enjoy watching your videos and seeing all your great techniques and wonderful work you produce. You have great ideas and taste.

I'm using the dream wool batting for the snowman body on my stocking. Here's my problem: I cut the felt piece carefully, just inside the lines, but when placing the felt piece over the batting to pin down, I found that the felt piece was much bigger than the lines on my stocking front. I kind of obsessed with sewing directly on the lines, but now the piece pooches out a little in an empty way like it should have more stuffing. Should I have trimmed the piece to lie flat and match the lines on the stocking front before sewing?

Thank you for this video. I hadn't thought it was possible to remove the black lines!