Christmas Stockings sent to our Marines
12-26-2010, 12:17 PM
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My Homemaker's group produced 170 Christmas Stockings this year. A local Girl Scout Troop heard about our effort and asked if they could be a part of it. I brought some "ready to be decorated" stockings to them and all of the supplies (fabric, heat n bond, scissors, iron) and they came up with some remarkable creations!!!
My beautiful GD has asked if she and her friends could start a group and make them all year (aren't kids wonderful!!!!!!)
My point in telling you this is - next year I will only buy felt for the stockings. I bought 6 1/2 yards of red felt this year and got 53 stockings out of the 6 1/2 yards, rather than buying a few yards of this and a few of that, and having waste. I took the fabric scraps from the stockings that the other ladies made and sewed them together in strips and used that for the cuffs on the red felt stockings. Now I can purchase the felt throughout the year for
$2.99 (sale price) instead of $6 or $7 for the Christmas fabric . Also, buying it in a larger quantity makes for much less waste. It is also easier for the ladies to cut than the regular fabric..
Works for me!!!
My beautiful GD has asked if she and her friends could start a group and make them all year (aren't kids wonderful!!!!!!)
My point in telling you this is - next year I will only buy felt for the stockings. I bought 6 1/2 yards of red felt this year and got 53 stockings out of the 6 1/2 yards, rather than buying a few yards of this and a few of that, and having waste. I took the fabric scraps from the stockings that the other ladies made and sewed them together in strips and used that for the cuffs on the red felt stockings. Now I can purchase the felt throughout the year for
$2.99 (sale price) instead of $6 or $7 for the Christmas fabric . Also, buying it in a larger quantity makes for much less waste. It is also easier for the ladies to cut than the regular fabric..
Works for me!!!
12-26-2010, 02:23 PM
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That's fabulous. I agree that felt is the way to go. A few years ago I made a ton of them for the pediatric ward of a nearby hospital and that's what I used. Did you take a picture of the stockings? I know we'd all love to see one if you did.
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