Sew your own European-looking vintage Christmas stockings with this free sewing pattern.
Last week I shared with you my Christmas mantel and mentioned I made this European-looking/vintage Christmas stockings.
I’ve always wanted to have stockings like these….ones that look they were bought at an old brocante shop in France or some small town in Europe with cobblestone streets used hundreds of years ago *sigh*.
Of course, that was going to be an extremely hard find. I also scoured the internet and couldn’t find any pattern out there so I created my own.
After many prototypes, I created this sewing pattern and I couldn’t be happier with the results.
Let me share with the tutorial and free downloadable sewing pattern so you can make your very own European-looking/vintage Christmas stockings. 
I made seven prototypes and most were really bad.
I just hand drew a pattern on wrapping paper and cut them out on fabric I had on hand.
You can see my note on number 2 – it was bad!
Don’t worry, yours will NOT look like my prototypes!
Supplies:
- homespun pure linen, like nubbly grainsacks (I bought mine in France but Etsy has great shops to buy from like this one)
- jute braided trim or something similar
- sewing machine
- scissors
- pins
- iron and ironing board
Tutorial:
- Print the downloadable pattern (end of the post) and lay your pattern on two pieces of fabric (this piece of linen has been folded over).
- Cut out the pattern.
- Pin the sides together before sewing (I’m bad and don’t do this).
- I’ve only left about a 1/4 inch of seam allowance. If you prefer 1/2 inch seam allowance, be sure to cut pattern out a little larger.
- The inside-out version is really pretty on its own as well. Keep inside out and cut out some ribbon or trim 6 inches long for the hook.
- Keep stocking inside-out. Overlap trim and place on back seam.
- Stitch into place, reverse stitch a few times.
8. Turn inside right and iron the seams. Pressing out the seams and ironing at the same time will give it a polished look. The stocking on the left is not ironed and the one on the right was just ironed.
I’ve hung the stockings on the fireplace using Command Strips.
Because I’m not the best seamstress at all, they are all a bit different which I love. It really shows the handmade appeal of them.
I hope you enjoy making your own European-looking/vintage Christmas stockings this year and feel confident to do it on your own even if you are a beginner seamstress!
You got this!
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Love these. May try some if I can find a nice fabric 🙂
Did you add the embroidery initials too?
Happy Holidays Jamie!
Thanks Shal! The embroidery came on the linen from France. I love that part too. Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday.
Hugs, Jamie
I love the look of these, Jamie! I think they might be a perfect idea for me, because I have been looking for some long stockings like this: actually cotton socks to tea stain so that they appear as though they might have been from the “Little House on the Prairie”/Old West years! I know that probably sounds crazy, even when I have seen them in pictures ~ I just haven’t found them to buy.
But now, if I can find the type of cotton fabric I have imagined, I can use this multi-tested pattern (!!!) you’ve so generously shared! Thank you SO MUCH for this, Jamie! (btw ~ those cross stitch initials really “make” the stockings!)
Oh this make me so happy, Kathleen! Those stockings sounds perfect. I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday with your family.
Hugs, Jamie
Ooops! So busy talking stockings, I forgot to say how much I love your whole setting: mantle, candles, stockings, tree … it’s all very lovely!
Thank you so much, Kathleen! xo
The cross stitch monogram is my favorite part. I love to cross stitch while watching tv, it’s such a charming touch. Lovely.
Thanks so much, Jaime. I can’t take credit for the cross stitch though. It was part of the French linen I bought. I had no idea you cross stitched! What can’t you do?? Merry Christmas!
Hugs, Jamie
Love,Love the mantel . The Christmas stockings are the awesome….. but do you think if I used fusible web or fabric glue that would work , I don’t have my sewing machine any longer. I have always had one. but when my phafe broke I decided not to replace since like of storage and barely used it.
Have a great day
Hugs
I definitely think you could try it. I wouldn’t put anything heavy in them but it would definitely do the trick!
Hugs, Jamie