"In the meadow"- Snowman Christmas Stocking

Our littlest Grandchild needed a Christmas stocking this year. Last Christmas he was only 3 weeks old and he had a store bought "Baby's First Christmas" stocking.

I saw a snowman block that I liked on a pattern for a table runner and decided to make one block and create a stocking out of it. Next year I'm planning on making that whole table runner to use here at Christmas time.

Pattern:   "In the Meadow- Snowman"
Quilter's World  "Quilting for the Holidays"  Nov. 2014  pg. 139

It starts out with a 5 1/2" snowball white fabric block (1 1/2" blue corners) for the body, along with a 2 1/2" X 3 1/2" rectangle for the head. The hat is 2 black rectangles: 1 1/2" X 5 1/2" and 1 1/2" X 3 1/2" from black fabric.  Then I added two 1 1/2"X 2 1/2" rectangles next to the head and then blue fabric strips ( 2 1/2" X 9 1/2") on each side.   It creates a 9 1/2" snowman block.

I also sewed 3 smaller snowball blocks 3 X 3" which I incorporated into the stocking below the snowman. The rest of the stocking front is made of strips of Xmas scraps cut in various widths.  The back of the stocking is made out of Christmas fabric printed with cute little birdhouses and other Christmasy things on it.

I used the same template to cut out this stocking as I did for the Star stockings Which I made last Christmas for the twins.
( Xmas stocking template: Fons and Porter magazine Nov. 2013  page 52-55)

Lining: All 3 stockings are lined with Christmas fabric.
Top edge Binding:  The trickiest part was attaching the binding to the top of the stocking and making the loop. (  I cut 2 1/4" strips of fabric, sewed them together end to end, then pressed them in half, right sides out. I used a few dabs of "Speed Sew" glue to attach the binding to the stocking in a few spots, then stitched the binding on securely on my machine. I then flipped the binding over the raw edge to the inside of the stocking and then sewed it in by hand.)

The snowman stocking is quite large, 19 1/2" long X 6 1/2 " wide.  Our little guy seemed to like it quite a bit after he had unwrapped it at his first birthday party on Dec. 3 (2014).

Star stockings made last Christmas for the twins' 2nd Christmas

The star stocking are about 18" long and also 6 1/2" wide.