Making Liberty Christmas Stockings and carrying on my Mum's tradition!
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- 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
When you held up the Christmas log cabin block, I suddenly was inspired to make a Block-of-the-Month (sort of) with a block for each actual month. Yours would be December naturally, and I could go all through the colors of the landscape in each month. It's for a gift. What fun! Thank you so much for your company, inspiration, and tutorials! A good RUclips friend indeed. -Sally from MO
I love the world that you have created for yourself and by extension for all of us...thank you Kate!
Lovely and so very special to the recipients❤
Aaaah those are so pretty. Really loved your mother's stockings for you and your children. The Christmas themed fabrics she used were delightful!!
Love your channels and enjoy them so much. Thank you for sharing all the many interesting things you do.
Lov8ng the care and thought you put 8th those lovely stockings! 🎄🎄
Lovely fabric for stockings.
You truly are delightful!
Love the ease of the project! 🙂
Beautiful. Thank you. 👏😊💕
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. ❤😊
Beautiful work thank you bless you
Such beautiful stockings Kate. Your video has inspired me to make one for my granddaughter.
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.
I soooo enjoy your videos Kate and your calm way of presenting your beautiful projects. have a blessed Christmas!!
Thank you Kate
I like the blocks on design wall too. 😉
Beautiful. ❤❤❤❤
Lovely to watch! ❤
I enjoyed this very much. ❤️
I love the choice you made with the names on the stockings. Very “down-homey”.
Merry Christmas Kate, I love watching you ❤
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
Beautiful, Kate!
Beautiful stockinhs Kate🤩❤️
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.
Beautiful, Kate! I would like to start a tradition such as that! I wish I could embroider like your mum!
Love my Christmas box!
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!
❤❤❤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
Made with love!
Great show to watch😃👏🏼👏🏼
Love this Kate..Going to make one tonight!! Thanks! You're the best!!
Very nice. Thanx for sharing
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.
They are wonderful
They will enjoy the stocking just because you made them! It's very evident they are made with love.
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.
So cool, Kate!
These are lovely.
Love the stockings
We call that “cross-stitch” and it is a very handy stitch.
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!
Beautiful.
Lovely Kate.
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.
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!
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.
Beautiful! Thank you for the tutorial.
Lovely stockings!
Beautiful!
i love this project i will have to try this it is so pretty
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.
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.
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 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!
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
Very lovely!
Sitting on the lime green sofa very comfy❤😊 Gorgeous ❣️
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🤣💕
Wonderful stockings. I love how you added the names in your own way. Merry Christmas!
Beautiful xx
Love that stocking. Amazed by you're iron.😂
Awesome!!!
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
Oh, Kate, just beautiful, and passing on traditions, priceless! The Liberty fabric, just keeps on giving you opportunities to make something else fun.
Merry Christmas Kate! 😊❤️🎄
Thankyou for this x
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 ❤❤❤
Pretty!!
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!
Beautiful stockings! I love that you didn't just use Christmas print fabrics for them. They will be loved and treasured for many years.
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.
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.
Kate, you're such inspiration for me! Thank you very much for all your ideas and heart-warming moments! 🥰
Thanks so much for the tutorial. Happy holidays to you!
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!
Really lovely Kate 💛💙🧵🪡
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.
Very nice!
Oh! Is Owen the son who lived in Canada? He's back close to you again? That's wonderful!
Very nice !!
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
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.
Love the stockings, Kate! You make it all look so quick & easy!!! ♥️🎄♥️
Hello Kate
The stockings are superb. ☃️Congratulations to Owen and Rita☃️And of course to yourself 🎄💜
Such beautiful stockings. I love them. Love your channel.
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.
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! ❤
Lovely stockings Kate ,so nice you have more grand babies to sew for….
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.
Those are lovely stockings! I made stockings last year for the kids and their partners. It felt wonderful. 🥰
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 RUclips 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
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!
Love the stockings, so unique! I’m guessing the little one is for a girl from the pretty colors! 🩷🩵💜💛💚
yes - My son and his wife's daughter xxx
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
I just love you!🦌💌🙏
well - thank you so much! xxx
Absolutely beautiful stockings and a precious heirloom ❤