Each year my friend Jodi and I make felt stockings for friends and family. We find felt so easy and satisfying to work with so we never tire of making them. We're both last minute Charlies so it's great that we can whip up a few of these in one evening! Each year we change the theme of the stockings since the possibilities of shapes you can make with felt are endless. This is mostly thanks to fact that it has a finished edge simply by cutting it. The pink and cream color palette we chose for the Purl Bee Christmas just enhanced how clean and contemporary our felt stockings feel. Snowflakes are one of our themes for Christmas week on the Purl Bee and I had a great time figuring out how to make delicate snowflakes from felt to adorn these stockings. The beauty of the snowflakes is that they look as though they took hours to make each one when they were actually really quick and easy! 

Happy Holidays! --Page

Felt stockings have been popular for many decades. In fact, Leah's father has a felt stocking that was made by his mother. He still insists on using his stocking to this day and is so protective of it that we felt lucky to get this photograph!

Here is what Leah had to say about her father's stocking:

Every Christmas when my Mom puts the stockings up, there's always one that doesn't look like the others. All the way at the end of the line of mega-huge knitted stockings, a little red felt sock with a once-white snowman, rusty bells, and a few beads missing hangs humbly, with a few loose strings and hand-embroidery that lets everyone know that this stocking belongs to "Billy." This one is my Dad's, and it's the only one he's ever had. His mom made it sixty Christmases ago, and he has solidly refused all subsequent offers for an update from the many knitters in our family. The stocking can fit about three or four little boxes, and on Christmas morning, Santa has to stack his gifts up underneath it. It's my Dad's silent protest; his way of keeping it real, of reminding himself not to care too much about "stuff." After so many years, I think all of us have come to welcome its tiny presence on the banister. I hadn't realized how much I loved his handmade stocking until Page told me she planned to make one out of our new felt this year.

We'd love for all of you to have your own Sixty Christmases Stocking too! May it last as long and be loved as much as Bill Mitchell's! Visit Page's Super Easy Snowflake Stocking Project Journal to find the pattern.