Burlap Stockings

I've been wanting to sew matching stockings for our family since last Christmas.  Our current stockings were a mis-match of sentimental handmade stockings (Mine being 29 years old and Porter's being one my Mom made him when he was a baby), to random store bought ones that Ryan and Hudson had.  I wanted a little more cohesive look to our Christmas decor, hoping that would entice me to not become fed up with the decor shortly after Christmas.  I want our Christmas decor to blend in with our normal day-to-day decor.  

I'm glad I didn't sew stockings last year as I was looking at very bright, vintagey (yet beautiful!) fabrics.  I'm sure I'd have become sick of it in no time. A few weeks ago I came across this blog and all of her burlap stocking inspirations.  

I was most drawn to these:

Bella Inspirations

EAB Designs

And then, lucky me, she posted her own creation of burlap stockings and I was in love!  I was also in LUCK as she posted a tutorial to how she made her stocking.  YAY!!

Cozy.Cottage.Cute.

I of course went out and bought burlap and white twill.  I was determined to make our family these cottagey french-country inspired stockings.  I love the natural look of them and the neutralness of the colors.  So fresh and pretty!

I decided mine would have ruffles and clip on flowers (which double as hair clips!), and the boys in the family would be ruffle-less and each have some kind of other decor to set them apart so they aren't so matchy matchy.  Here is what I came up with:

I am more than happy with how they came out!  I also plan to make another girl stocking and another boy stocking for whatever future addition(s) we have to our family.  The "H" and the "P" are just paperclips I formed into the letters and hot glued buttons onto.  I then used a few stitches of white thread to hold the letters onto the stocking.  So, if in the future we get sick of the H and P, we can put something new on there.  Same with the buttons on Ryan's stocking.  I eventually think I want to replace them with large wooden buttons but I wasn't about to spend $20 on wood buttons.  I'll have to keep an eye out at garage sales and Goodwill for little wooden buttons.