These stockings are a relatively quick project. You can make one for each member of your family and still have to to be together and enjoy the holiday! They are made with Robert Kaufman's gloriously colored solids Essex and Kona Cotton as the base, and the beautiful and natural Essex as the lining and the cuff.

There is something so sweet about seeing everyone's stocking hung on the mantle in anticipation of the goodies that will soon fill them and these particular stockings are such an easy way to add a little holiday cheer to your home.

To make the embroidery as neat and legible as possible we designed a special alphabet, complete with upper and lower case letters to use as an embroidery pattern.  Below is a sample of the alphabet, you can download and print the entire alphabet at this link (or find a link on the project journal page).The letters are all reversed, which allows you to make your own embroidery transfer pattern from them:

To transfer the letters simply print out the alphabet pattern, trace the letters you need onto tracing paper using an iron-on-transfer-pencil and then iron the tracing paper onto your stocking... viola, the name has been neatly transered to the stocking. Embroider over the marked letters using a simple back stitch and satin stitch.

I knew these particular stockings were going to live in the Christmas window at Purl Patchwork so I embroidered them with the names of everyone who works there. It was so fun picking out who got what color stocking! If you'd like to make your own set please visit my Simple Embroidered Stockings project journal for the complete pattern and instructions. Happy Holidays! -- Molly