Making Liberty Christmas Stockings and carrying on my Mum's tradition!
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- I hope you enjoy watching this video! I thought about my Mum a lot while I was making these stockings for my family! It was such a treat to use the Liberty fabric, especially the Wiltshire Berry in all those colours, my favourite design!
If you are inspired to make one for someone in your family, tag me on instagram #kateatthelasthomelyhouse so I can see!
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Take care
Kate
xxx
If no one has ever told you before, you are like a giant warm hug. Everything about you feels cozy and wonderful. I just love your videos. I could listen to you talk for days. ❤ Merry Christmas 🎄
That is a lovely thing to say! Thank you so much! xxx
I love the world that you have created for yourself and by extension for all of us...thank you Kate!
Thanks Kate. I love them. A few years back I made my daughters family a stocking each at her request. I did a letter ornament for each of the people in the family and added them to the stockings. They loved them.
These stockings for Rita and your new grandchild are beautiful. The fabrics are so lovely. I know they will love them. Thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful day, Kate. ❤😊
I have made Christmas stockings for My kids and grandchildren and Even for service men with a group and filled with cards and goodies. So enjoyed it.
What a blessing. I fondly remember my stocking as a child. My grandmother made them for all of us. It was like seeing an old friend when it came out. It did not survive to my adulthood. I never forgot it.
I also remember my Christmas stocking. My mother's sister, my aunt Judy, hand knitted the first of us six kids's stalkings and decorated them. Then my mother learned how from her and knitted the last two. Sadly, mine didn't last very far into adulthood because of a problem with mice and not having put the stocking up correctly😢 yours are so beautiful Kate, I would have never thought to attach them to batting like that and then quilt them. Wonderful idea! Merry Christmas!
So beautiful stockings, you've made, Kate! Nothing more satisfying than (adult) children asking for handmade things. I love, that Owen want you to continue the tradition.
My daughter asked me to make a Christmas stocking for my grandchild last year - also with embroidery. To me the difficult part was the sewing, but I managed 🙂. I have to do it again next year, as my daughter is pregnant with my second grandchild, and now I'm looking forward to it. Next time I'll try with wadding too.
I am not one to ever covet another’s good, but I believe I broke the 10 th Commandment today. Your Christmas stockings made using the Liberty fabrics are just stunning. I was drooling over your stash of Liberty scraps and that is when I folded and started to covet , on a Sunday . The strip quilting just showcases the beauty of each piece of fabric and I could not help myself. Mea culpa Kate.
ha ha ha!!! xxx
I think it’s a healthy coveting, even on a Sunday🤣💕
From bagmaking, I learned a tip for getting the lining to fit well. Increase the seam allowance by an eighth of an inch on the lining, and it will wrinkle less on the inside.
Oh, of course!
Or in other words, if you're used to working with the stitching line, shave 1/8 of an inch / 3 mm off along the lining piece. :-)
The principle is called "turn of cloth" in patternmaking, I believe - you do the same on lower collar pieces etc. All to acount for the fact that fabric does have its own bulk, and the "inside" piece will wrinkle and the whole thing will look uneven if you don't account for it. Even facings work better if you account for it (though there are various ways to account for it with more complicated pattern pieces like that).
If you have thicker fabric - like a padded piece like here - you may even need to shave off a bit more.
@@beth12svist Interesting information. I just googled "turn of cloth" and read a brief article. It's something I never applied to quilting projects before. Thanks.
Beautiful stockings! I love that you didn't just use Christmas print fabrics for them. They will be loved and treasured for many years.
Sitting on the lime green sofa very comfy❤😊 Gorgeous ❣️
Beautiful stockings Kate. I remember making stockings for my sister's family. I make separate name tags that could be attached, allowing each person to choose their own stocking. I realised I'd gone too far when I made bone shaped stockings for their pups. 😂
ah - dog stockings? that aint happening here!! xxxx well done though!
They will enjoy the stocking just because you made them! It's very evident they are made with love.
That's sweet that he thought enough of the stockings to request one for his wife and your grandson. The stockings are great! LOVE that quilt block for your patrons!!!! I haven't embroidered anything substantial in quite some time but I didn't used to enjoy it.
Owen loved his Nana and Grandad very much xxx
I hope that you know, Kate, that there are plenty of people who would be delighted to sew some names in cross stitch for you. The stockings are delightful. Lucky family. I am the lady that accosted you at the NEC when you and Anna had arrived and were making your way to your allotted stand. Apologies for holding you up but it was lovely to meet you both. Best wishes from Northern Ireland x
I'm always tempted to remind Kate that I met her at FoQ as well, but then, she's famous and I'm not, and she must meet so many people!! She's so lovely and authentic! I was terrified is be so eager to meet her and she'd be a shrew!! Not a chance!!! 🤣
So many lovely offers of stitching coming in! I solved the dilemma in the end! did you see? You didn't hold us up - we loved meeting people! xxx
nah! I'm not famous - I'm just doing what everyone else on The Lime Green Sofa does - I just turn a camera on! It was lovely to meet you! xxx
@@thelasthomelyhouse I'm glad you turned a camera on, and that you have such a large sofa. It's very comfie on it. 🥰
I was thinking the same thing!
Oh, Kate, just beautiful, and passing on traditions, priceless! The Liberty fabric, just keeps on giving you opportunities to make something else fun.
What a lovely idea! My Nana and our son's Nana (my mum) are both gone so it is heartwarming to see you pass on the tradition! Blessings!
Awe, good for you, Kate. I just knew you would find a way to name the stockings. It fits. How you managed those letters is a gift. Happy week, Kate.
more my style! thank you xxx
Beautiful stockings, Kate. So special and meaningful for them, even as adults.💕💕💕
I made stockings for our daughters when they were little. (We still use those here!) Also, for our two grandchildren. I also made one for my husband (then boyfriend, 44 yrs ago💕), and for myself, and bought a nice one for our son in law when he joined our family. I was busy making our daughter and her hubby a quilt that year, so I needed to find a stocking quickly. But it still looks nice 17yrs later.😊
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
The toe is for the tangerine when I was growing up and I continued that with my kids.
Me too, with the tangerines
Me it was whole walnuts and oranges
Toe for tangerine, heel for apple with a half crown coin pushed in, foot for nuts, leg for presents! North Yorkshire in the forties. The nuts and fruit were a big deal at that austerity period.
Such beautiful stockings that I am sure the family will love. It is lovely that you are keeping on your Mum's tradition.
Kate, this year's Patreon advent series is so special. Every day will be a quilty treat 🎄
THANK you! Anna and I have put the hours in this year! I'm glad people are enjoying it! wait to see what happens - it gets rather wild! xxx
I only embriodered names and added bells and trims to bought stockings for my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, but if I'd seen your method long ago I'd have rather tried my hand at that. So beautiful and durable and loved. And not too difficult! 🤗💖
Lovely and so very special to the recipients❤
Kate, I am home with covid. I haven't turned my TV on since getting sick. Until today, and it popped up you making stockings. You are such a treat to me. Happy Holidays if I don't to watch soon.
So happy, as usual, that I watched today! But today you saved Christmas for me! I just labored over 6 stockings for my granddaughter 's family. I wasn't looking forward to the 10 I had to make for my youngest daughter, but your quick pattern is a lifesaver! Thank you!
Wonderful! xxx
Aaaah those are so pretty. Really loved your mother's stockings for you and your children. The Christmas themed fabrics she used were delightful!!
Hello from Barbara in Missouri USA. Thinking of a project for my Grandkids for Christmas. Thank you for this wonderful idea. I havent done this for them since they were babies! I cant wait to begin. Merry Christmas to everyone.
Just made a small stocking for my niece for christmas. It was really easy and quick to get it together. I did the sewing on the wadding on an angle and used non-christmasy fabrics so she can use it all year long. Got stuffed with some little crafting supplies I had on hand.
Lovely, Kate! I hear that your family is growing and that is an enormous blessing. Making their stockings with such love and care will surely bring sweet memories in days to come. You have been blessed with children sensible as you are and that makes all the difference in these days of so much selfishness and hatred. God bless you all!
These are absolutely lovely! There is another lady who makes beautiful stockings, pot holders, coasters, and quilts using fabric scraps like you. Her name is Beth and her TH-cam channel is My Sewing Room. Sometimes you mention other quilters, so I hope you don't mind me mentioning her. I know your family kiddos will love these as they are made by you and are so pretty. Thanks!
Thank you for the recommendation - I will check Beth out! xxx
Very nice. Thanx for sharing
This was very lovely. The stockings are adorable and a keepsake for general. ❤
How beautiful are these? What a wonderful idea to use Liberty…something really special! Always love your videos, thanks for all you do❤
We have our stockings that we fill hanging on the mantle. But I also have a bunch hanging as a timeline: my childhood stocking made by my grandma; my husband’s childhood stocking; each of our young adult stockings; a slipper I tried knitting him when we were dating but I was new and didn’t understand gauge so it turned out stocking size; pretty ones I got for our first married home together; Army ones for the time we were both in the Army together; our daughter’s first stocking. Now I’m knitting one with Arne and Carlos for decoration, and maybe I’ll sew us new ones for the mantle.
Hello Kate
The stockings are superb. ☃️Congratulations to Owen and Rita☃️And of course to yourself 🎄💜
My parents always put a few coins in the bottom of our stocking, as well as at least one orange and a few walnuts. Such fond memeories!
Home made stockings are wonderful. When my three children were small I made stockings for the 5 of us but I made them all the same size so no one would complain that they got a smaller one. They are now all grown and wanted to take their stockings with them when they moved out on their own. At one time we had a dog that found my son's stocking on the floor and when he smelled the candy that was inside he chewed the toe trying to get at it. I offered to make my son a new one, but he didn't want a new one, he wanted the one he had had for as long as he could remember. So I patched it up the best I could and he still uses it today (he's 37 years old). Then they wanted me to make more for their spouses and for each grandchild that came along. It looks like I'm done with stocking making for awhile, or at least until there is another generation! Thanks for showing us yours.
Lovely stockings Kate ,so nice you have more grand babies to sew for….
The stockings are beautiful Kate. It was nice to see the steps you took to make them, as it really makes it doable once you break it down. Precious family traditions to treasure.
Those are lovely stockings! I made stockings last year for the kids and their partners. It felt wonderful. 🥰
Lovely project...I made Christmas stockings for my four grandchildren.... This is the first year that 'number 4' will be using his.... I used my embroidery machine to do the names on them as my hands aren't as good as they were but they were lovely.
Kate, you're such inspiration for me! Thank you very much for all your ideas and heart-warming moments! 🥰
Love your channels and enjoy them so much. Thank you for sharing all the many interesting things you do.
A lovely idea for a Christmas stocking. 🇬🇧
What a lovely tradition! My sisters and I all had homemade stockings made by a great aunt who also embroidered our names on them. So this year I continued a more modern version of the tradition for making a stocking for the new baby of my niece, but I did machine embroidery to put his name on it. Such lovely stockings Kate!
Love the stockings! I have crocheted stockings for my Mum and myself and instead of having our names on them, I brought Christmas ornaments of our initials which hang with the stockings!
❤❤❤greate thanks Kate, it is a easy way for a beginner like me. Your lessions helps me to recicel I had at home from kids clothes to bed wear and my own clothes.
It gives me in bad time happines . Thats your wounderfull work for orhers.
Your are a christmas star
I love the choice you made with the names on the stockings. Very “down-homey”.
Of course John’s is the biggest stocking ever so pretty we are having a snow storm today so home now knitting and watching you Newfoundland brrrrrr
I was so happy when I saw your gorgeous self in my feed!!! I so look forward to your videos, Kate💝 Tfs this wonderful idea❣️
Kate, what a beautiful tradition for your family. I love the fabrics you chose for the stockings. I am in the USA but my mum was from Widnes England. Our tradition at Christmas was of course stockings which mum made and mincemeat pies, trifle and jam tarts. Mum is gone but I have carried on that tradition as my daughter and now my granddaughter. I cherish those things❤ as I am sure your family will for years. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family. I believe I have some stockings to make for my great-grand children.
Hi Kate you bought back lovely memories for me years ago l made stockings for my kids and friends l appliquéd their initial on them greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 Debbie
These stockings are so homey and charming! They will be a treasure for years to come as your family grows. Lucky family to have a matriarch who loves to quilt and craft! Thank you for sharing.
We call that “cross-stitch” and it is a very handy stitch.
Lov8ng the care and thought you put 8th those lovely stockings! 🎄🎄
I’ve been making stockings for all of my family members for years. They are the felt, sequins, beads, embroidery stockings. Each one has their name embroidered on them. I have 4 kids and spouses and now 10 grands so I’ve made quite a few. I love to make them. I can sit and watch TV and work on them. Your family will be so happy that they have stockings that you made! They are beautiful! ❤️
Lovely stockings. I just finished two quilts and three pillow cases. My sewing machine is idle….stockings will be next up….love your style with lining.
I still have knitted stockings a coworker made for my boys 46 years ago with their names on them. They are both coming for Christmas this year and I plan to give them their original stockings. I will make your pattern for their wives and grandchildren. Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family. Blessings, Dawn
Beautiful stockings for the mama bear Rita, and your latest baby bear their daughter. I’m sure they’ll be cherished. 🇦🇺❤️
Everyone move over so I can get on the lime green sofa.... hello Kate from the heart ❤️ of Illinois USA 🇺🇸...aaawww mommy 🐻 besr, daddy 🐻bear and baby🐻 bear... adorable 😍
always lots of room on The Lime Green Sofa - xxxx
Such beautiful stockings. I love them. Love your channel.
Love your stockings! Make a cute tag with their name on it! I am also crazy about your stamp size quilt curtains! Thanks for sharing!
I am really enjoying your Advent Series on Patreon and I look forward to it every day!!!! Thank you! You are so inspiring Kate!!!❤
oh I'm pleased! Anna and I have worked for weeks getting them ready! It is lovely to have them out there now xxx I'm enjoying revisiting them too! xxx Thank you
Super, thank you...beautifully done.
Such beautiful stockings Kate. Your video has inspired me to make one for my granddaughter.
Wonderful.
Kate I just love the Christmas stockings.
I made advent calendars for my grandchildren this year but you have inspired me to make them stockings .
Thanks Kate. I always love your videos
Calming and enjoyably
How sweet of you to keep your loved ones' Christmas stockings. This is a family story...
Oh the Wiltshire 🥰 but then baby stocking was very pretty too!
Yes - the Wiltshire! I wonder if Rita knows just how much I love her - using all my Wiltshire! ha ha! xxx
Beautiful, Kate! I would like to start a tradition such as that! I wish I could embroider like your mum!
Kate, these are lovely and easy to make! Thank you
Lovely fabric for stockings.
I soooo enjoy your videos Kate and your calm way of presenting your beautiful projects. have a blessed Christmas!!
Wonderful stockings. I love how you added the names in your own way. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for such a lovely video! I’m missing stocking for two of my kids, probably found them last January and put them somewhere safe. 😬 I wanted to make new ones for them and for my son’s girlfriend who hopefully will be my daughter one day. Thank you for instructions and inspiration! ❤
Dear Kate, I do so love your how to videos and the music and your voice is soooo relaxing!
I made stockings for multiple grandchildren this year and cut letters from felt and straight stitched to top width or long length of stocking after quilting it.
I have no wish to do any embroidery or stitching, too impatient for that! Thank you for your time and happy Christmas.
Absolutely beautiful stockings and a precious heirloom ❤
Hi Kay, those are beautiful really pretty and they don’t need any embroidery. I I am excellent master embroidery. I guess you could call me, but I did it all freehand by machine and I did it for several years and made quite a bit of money at the time I traveled up and down East Coast, and to all the boat shows, and so hats and bread in them right at the show And I had a wonderful time they paid for my hotel and food and it was just a lot of fun My Number all grown up and out of the house at the time so I didn’t have to worry about them and it was nice. Nice way to make a living and now that my eyes are so bad of course I can I can’t do machine embroidery. I’d be running over my fingers, but, I will make some stockings like yours. I think they’re beautiful. I wish I had some liberty.
Beautiful. Thank you. 👏😊💕
Kate, I have been following you for a long time now, and it never ceases to amaze me how natural you are with working with material and your sewing machine, they are part of you it seems! You are truly amazing, and a wonder to watch. I love the way you explain things in such a natural normal way, so us beginners can follow ever step. Bless you, and thank you for sharing your life with us all on here. Love Jilly & Madge the rescue greyhound, from West Devon, England. xxx
Love the stockings, Kate! You make it all look so quick & easy!!! ♥️🎄♥️
Hi Kate, I don’t know how many times I’ve watched you make these stockings but I always enjoyed it anyway and I just wanted you to know that I did make them and I made three I believe and then I made a pillow. I did send pictures but I don’t do it very well. I’m just not good at it but I hope you got to see them, I could do it again if I knew how however I saw better than I use electronics even though I’m old and decrepit still going strong
I wish to goodness that we were closer. I have loved counted cross stitch over the last 40 years. This was the first year I got to do stockings for my son, his wife and my new baby grandson. I did crazy quilt with fancy hand stitches, They took awhile, but I put loads of love in their box. P.S. Kate, I'd do the cross stitch for you and mail it from NM, USA.
Did you see? I solved it at the end! and so many people are offering to stitch for me! Thank you so much! xxx
Got it now. I was so excited to comment my idea 🙂
I like the blocks on design wall too. 😉
You could add a cross stich embroidery band at a future year. Wonderful way yo wake up is to have a visit with my friends.
I have stocking that look like these. I crossed stitched the names and a Deer a male with Antlers and learn to use a mirror to reflect the deer in opposite side to see how to cross stitch two facing each other. That is called a challenge position I believe. That one is my husband's with his name.
How beautiful Kate! You have inspired me to go on and give my (adult) children’s needlepoint stockings (that my mom made) to them. It’s high time, and maybe I will make some Liberty ones to hang at my chimney! They are so lovely!! Thank you for this delightful video! ❤🎄
Love the ease of the project! 🙂
Love that stocking. Amazed by you're iron.😂
Hi there. I just stumbled on your channel today and I think you're wonderful! I've been watching you all day. I can't wait to watch some more of your videos while I do my knitting. Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Thank you, Kate!!❤
I am so glad that you figured out a way to put their names on them. The stockings are just adorable ❤
beautiful job! Love watching as you stitch with lovely fabrics ❤
Thank you Kate
Those are beautiful stockings for son Owen's family. I 'm sure they'll be thrilled to receive them! Thank you for showing us online.
I think I’m going to make stockings for my family after watching this. Loved them thank you so much
Those stockings are works of art! I made a plainer stocking for my little one and embroidered the name on the cuff in back stitch before I attached it. It is nowhere near as fancy but they love that Mummy made it and it is hung with excitement every year.
Always love your scrappy Liberty projects. My mom has made all our family stockings the same way, but used the fancy stitches on her machine to embellish the crazy patchwork.
😊Kate I love your Christmas Stockings very very nice
If you wanted to put names on the stockings, you could get someone with a fancy machine to embroider the names on a piece of fabric and applique it on. Maybe adult kids don't mind so much about those things. The stockings are lovely and will be treasured for a long time.
Sweet family traditions are always the best memories! These are adorable and got my creativity flowing. Thanks for sharing these and all the love, too❤