How to Stuff a Stocking for a Sewing enthusiast.

It's Small Business Saturday and we're here in the shop! A blog post coming to you from the store. This week in the store is the Lazy Daisy class wed 10-2pm and our embroidery club meets friday 2-5pm (this club is for all levels).

Today I want to talk to you about stockings. The wonderful treasure hunt that is a stocking is not only my (Jessie) favorite Christmas gift thing it is also Sue's favorite. Needless to say we're very pro-stocking over here at SewUnique Threads! My mom was and is a master at stuffing the ol' sock, so is Sue. My husband, sadly, is not the best (though he's certainly come a long way and is getting better every year). As wives and mothers and grown women our stockings are sometimes not what we deserve.

Christmas Open House.

With that in mind we decided to write a post about stuffing a stocking from us to your husbands, or significant others. So pass the computer or e-reader over to your partner, this post is for them (or come into the shop to enter our stocking giveaway we're open until 2):

So, you've just found out that your responsible for stuffing a stocking for a grown woman and you don't know where to start. Take a deep breath and relax we're here to walk you through it. Presumably you're lady likes to sew (since she's on our blog) so this will be a sewing themed stocking but the principles can be converted to all sorts of stockings. Firstly, it's a treasure hunt, go small. However, small does not mean cheap, or dollar store, heavens!

Start by stuffing something roundish in the toe of the stocking. I suggest a warm nice pair of socks or a jelly roll like this one,

Then add in some nice little soaps (Station 66 has some wonderful artisan ones just the right size for a stocking) or other bath products. Remember things that come in boxes (think the gift packs from Bath and Bodyworks or Starbucks) can be removed from their packaging to fit in the sock better. 

Add in some nice chocolate (non of the cheap stuff, I suggest a Green and Blacks or Dove chocolate bar) and another favorite treat (maybe a bag of coffee or fancy hot chocolate). Once you get to the top of the stocking it's time to add in things that are squarish in shape. Like these small patterns.

You'll want something sticking out of the top like a nice magazine, or book.

In a sewing shop small things abound to fill in all your small spaces. Nice thread, extra needles, thread snips, fancy pins, tracing instruments, assorted fat quarters. The best things for stockings are things they will want and use but things that are a step up from everyday like fancy thread, and other sewing tools. She'll use these things but she might have a hard time spending the money on herself (though you can't go wrong with a bit of jewelry).

Fancy pins, fat quarters, nice buttons, precut bundles,
tools, fancy floss, needles and thread.

When you go to stuff  your stocking give yourself some time to fill it properly. It could take a few tries but think of it as a real life Tetris game and this will make you better at packing your car's trunk.

Come into the shop Dec 11th 10am-7pm for a stocking demonstration, chance to win a filled stocking, and sales on all our smalls. Let us do the work for you, your partner will get a delightful stocking and you'll get major Christmas points!

Happy Sewing
Love, Jessie and Sue!