Give Old Christmas Stockings New Life With Faux Fur
Every year I end up buying something new to decorate for Christmas. New things come out & I get pulled in just like everyone else.
This year the 1 thing I really wanted to change was our Christmas Stockings. Should I buy new or keep using what we have? I decided to keep it sustainable & give our old stockings new life with faux fur.
This project was free since I already had everything on hand. But even with buying a yard of faux fur at regular price, it would have come in at about $15 with fur leftover for something else. I did 3 stockings & didn't even use half the remnant so that works out to about $2.50 per stocking!!
Excellent since this style retails for upwards of $30 each!
We've had these stockings for 4 or 5 years. I love the velvet fabric & the monogram (on the flip side). But when I couldn't find them with monograms for all 6 of us, I ended up changing them after the 1st year.
I just added these letter ornaments that I'd previously bought for the tree. These are also about 4-5 years old but I had 1 for every member of the family. Perfect.
This year I felt like these stockings really needed updating & of course my 1st instinct was to go buy new ones. Even though we already have 3 of these, 4 of another style, & too many to count that our littlest has made over the years.
Obviously new Christmas stockings are the last thing we need!
I sat on this for a week trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Then I ran across this faux fur remnant I'd recently bought & forgot about
Faux fur is everywhere these days so I thought this would be the perfect update. Especially since I had no plans for this remnant at all when I bought it. It was on clearance... what can I say?
I started by {loosely} measuring out the fur to fit the cuff of the stocking. After measuring & cutting the first cuff, I used it as a template for the rest of my stockings.
Add a bead of hot glue along the top & bottom edges of the stocking cuff on 1 side. Then flip it over & do the same on the other side.
To seal it, run a bead of glue down the seam of the cuff, and on the inside of each of the ends of the faux fur. Press the 2 ends of the fur together while pushing the "seam" into the seam of the cuff.
Here's a video that might make it easier to see how to close up - skip to 1:20 to see that part.
And there you have it! And old Christmas stocking made new again!! Extra score for the monogram!
For more details on this project including a few tips check out the original blog post here.
Happy Christmas!!
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