So we hung garland over the the doorway, wreaths on our front door and in another spot inside, and the stockings are hanging above the mantle.
The stockings were really easy to make. I bought a yard of blue and gray felt and a quarter of burgundy felt along with a spool of burgundy satin ribbon. I drew the pattern freehand on a big sheet of paper and then used my Olfa rotary cutter with a scalloped blade to cut out the pieces of fabric.
I cut the letters freehand and then stitched those onto the blue front panel first. Then I stitched the front and back panels together with a regular old top stitch - sandwiching a strip of ribbon folded in half between the two to make a little loop for hanging.
I finished it off by making a pompom from some variegated scrap yarn that happened to match perfectly!
Here they are, waiting to be filled:
