Easy Christmas Stocking Sewing Pattern (Free)

Make your own Christmas Stockings with this beginner friendly sewing pattern. This traditional Christmas stocking pattern makes for a great sewing project for Christmas. It’s easy to make and comes together pretty quick.

Traditional Christmas Stocking with gold leafing around it.

I love that sewing my own stockings allows me to personalize them even more that just putting a name on it. Although I can still do that as well! I get to chose my preferred fabrics and customize how I like. To make this Christmas stocking, you will need a few supplies.

Supplies

Fabric (Fabric types listed below.)
Thread
Scissors
Pins or clips
Iron
Ironing board
Safety pin or turning tool

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This pattern is for personal and commercial (up to 50 times) use only.

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Top of Christmas stocking to show detail.

Pattern Assembly Instructions

This is a no trim pattern. Just line up each page to the gray line of the other page and tape or glue it together.

Fabric Requirements

Based on 60″ wide fabric.

Main stocking pieces – 5/8 yard
Cuff – 3/8 yard
Tab – Use scraps from main fabric.

Fabric Types

You can use a variety of fabrics to make this Christmas stocking. The type of fabric you use will affect how it hangs. Some of the fabrics I used where flannel, felt, fleece, and cotton. Cotton will not hold its shape as well, but can still be used. You can also use velvet and faux fur. Make sure that the fabric you use does not have much stretch.

Traditional Christmas stocking hung on a fireplace mantle.

Sewing Prep

Prewash and iron the fabric before cutting to eliminate any wrinkles or folds. Cut your fabric using the pattern pieces. When you are done cutting you should have two main stocking pieces, one cuff piece, and one tab piece.

Sewing the Christmas Stocking

Lay one main stocking piece on top of the other, right sides together. Line them up and pin them together on all sides excluding the top.

Laying one main stocking piece on top of the other, right sides together.

Main stocking pieces pinned together, ready to sew.

Sew the sides and bottom with half an inch seam allowance, leaving the top open.

Sew a zig-zag stitch right next to the stitches you just sewed around the stocking. (This helps prevent the fabric from fraying.)

Showing zig zag stitches sewn next to original seam.

Trim seam allowance down to the edge of the zig-zag stitches.

Turn the stocking right side out and use an iron the press the edges. This will help it keep its shape.

Ironing the stocking turned right side out.

Cuff and Tab Assembly

Take the cuff piece and fold it in half with short ends meeting. Pin together and sew with 1/2″ seam allowance. The cuff piece will now be a tube.

Cuff piece folded in half, pinned and ready to sew.

Trim the seam allowance down to 1/4″.

Fold the cuff piece in half, wrong sides together, with long ends meeting to align raw edges.

Folding the cuff in half with wrong sides together

Find quarter points of the folded cuff by marking the seam with a pin, then mark the side opposite of the seam with a pin.

Two of the quarter points marked with pins. (half way points)

Fold the cuff in half so the two marker pins are stacked on each other. The crease is the quarter point so put a pin on each crease of each side. So you’ll have a total of 4 pins spread evenly around the cuff.

Show all quarter pints of the cuff marked with pins

Find quarter points on the main stocking in the same way you did for the cuff.

Set the main stocking and the cuff aside and get the tab piece. Fold the tab piece in half, right sides together, with long edges meeting.

Tab piece folded in half, long edges metting. Pinned together and ready to sew.

Sew down the tab’s side with a 1/4 “ inch seam allowance leaving the ends open, making a tube.

Use a safety pin or turning tool to turn the tab right side out.

Using a loop turner to turn the tab right side out.

Iron the tab with the seam allowance on the backside of the tab.

Showing tab piece ironed with seam flat on back side.

Attaching the Tab and Cuff to the Body

Fold the tab in half so raw edges meet. (Seam should folded on itself.) Placing it inside the main stocking piece upside down, line the folded tab up with the seam on the back side of the main stocking piece. Pin them together.

Tab piece pinned (upside down) to back side seam of stocking.

Put the cuff piece inside the main stocking piece, upside down, matching up the quarter points and raw edges. Pin them together.

Putting the cuff piece upside down into the stocking. Aligning raw edges of cuff and stocking.

The tab piece will now be sandwiched between the cuff and the main stocking piece on the inside.

cuff, tab, and main stocking pieces pinned together and ready to sew.

Sew the cuff to the main stocking piece using 1/2″ seam allowance. Be careful when sewing over the tab piece. There is a lot of fabric in your machine at this point and you may need to use the hand wheel on your machine to sew through the tab section.

Finishing the Stocking

Pull the cuff out of the main stocking piece and fold over to the outside.

Pilling the cuff piece out of the stocking.

Folding the cuff down over the top side of the stocking.

The stocking is now finished! If you want to personalize it, you can add a name with embroidery, vinyl or fabric paint and stencils.

I hope you enjoy this Christmas stocking sewing pattern and get some good use out of it. Thank you for reading and have a Merry Christmas!