It is only a week to Christmas eve, just in time to hang my newly sewn Burlap Christmas Stocking at my fireplace and pray hard to have a surprise on the morning of Christmas day. Ho ho ho!!!! My kids are excited to see me sewing a new pair of stockings since the pair I sewn 4 years ago. Oops, it is so embarrassing to tell you that I have been using the same old pair of Christmas stockings for 4 years and many more years to come 😋
Perhaps you may think that there is nothing special about sewing this pair of burlap stockings as there are plenty of similar tutorials on how to make Christmas stockings, including the one I did 4 years ago. Scroll down to read through my instructions and you will find that I am sewing it differently. You will be surprised by how easy it is to hide the raw edges into the layers.
Burlap Christmas Stocking
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I learned a method from bag making, where the lining is totally attached to the external fabric, and the seam allowance is hidden away between the layers. This method is perfect for sewing burlap, which has loosely woven fibers. With a muslin lining, it secures the stitches on the loosely woven burlap without having to be afraid of seam lines rupturing. And if you get tired of burlap, just turn the lining side out, and you have new Christmas stockings to display. Actual size printable pattern template included for immediate download too.
Even though I named this sewing pattern & tutorial Burlap Christmas Stocking, you may substitute the fabric with your favorite cotton. You can either add medium interfacing to make the fabric stiffer or add batting to make the stocking looks fuller or just add nothing at all. If you are using cotton, just treat the combination of both cotton and interfacing or batting as a piece of burlap.
Be it a plain Burlap Stocking or you can decorate it with some embellishment to spice it up. Buy Christmas embellishments from Amazon (affiliate link).
WHAT’S NEXT:
- Start sewing and sharing your completed handmade on Facebook and/or Instagram. Remember to tag us, @craftpassion, so that we are able to see them.
- Pin it to Pinterest for a future To-Sew List
- Share with your sewing groups for a sew-along event.
- Browse more free sewing patterns to make, particularly, the Christmas Sewing Crafts.
Happy Sewing and Merry Christmas!
Sew Burlap Christmas Stocking Pattern
Sew a lined Burlap Christmas Stocking with this quick & easy sewing pattern tutorial.
Even though I named this pattern & tutorial Burlap Christmas Stocking, you may substitute the fabric with your favorite cotton. You can either add medium interfacing to make the fabric stiffer or add batting to make the stocking looks fuller or just add nothing at all. If you are using cotton, just treat the combination of both cotton and interfacing or batting as a piece of burlap.
Be it a plain Burlap Stocking or you can decorate it with some embellishment to spice it up.
Enjoy sewing them!
Download and print separately SEWING PATTERN for tracing on the burlap.
Materials
- Burlap, 2 pcs. of 11″ x 15 1/2″
- Muslin or cotton, 2 pcs. of 11″ x 15 1/2″
- Linen or cotton (red/cream strips), 2 pcs. of 9 1/2″ (W) x 7 1/2″ (H)
- Jute twine, 8″
- Embellishment (optional)
Tools
- Sewing machine (prefer to have walking foot presser)
- Pencil or seamstress chalk
- Seamstress tracing wheel and paper
- Scissors
- Pins, needle and matching threads
- Quick-dry glue, eg. UHU or Tacky, or Hot Glue (optional, for embellishment)
- Printer and papers
Instructions
Remark: Add 3/8″ seam allowance to the pattern template.
MORE DETAILS ON HOW TO SEW
BURLAP CHRISTMAS STOCKING
- Gathered all materials and tools as listed above.
Download the pattern template, open it in Acrobat Reader and print them out without scaling (unless you want a different size). Don’t print from the browser, the scale won’t be correct.
Cut paper templates and glue to join the stocking template.
- Stack fabrics with 2 pcs. of burlap at the bottom followed by 2 pcs of muslin fabrics on top. If the fabrics have distinguishable right-side and wrong-side, place them with the right side facing each other. Pin.
Place the red/cream stripes fabrics for the cuff with the right side facing each other. Pin.
- Place the stocking paper template on the wrong side of the muslin, ie. on top of the 4-piece stacking, pin, trace the outline with pencil or seamstress chalk. Trace the cuff line of the stocking on the wrong side of the second layer of muslin with tracing paper and a tracing wheel. Cut fabrics with 3/8″ seam allowance.
Place cuff paper template on the wrong side of the red/cream stripe fabrics, pin, trace the outline with pencil or seamstress chalk. Trace the top and bottom lines on the wrong side of the 2nd layer of fabric.
Important: Make a marking on the rear side of the cuff (the black dot on the pattern template). Cut fabrics with 3/8″ seam allowance.
- Sew sides of the cuff piece.
- Sew around the stocking except for the top cuff line.
- Clip the seam allowance on the valleys and notch on the mountains.
- Turn the stocking muslin side out from the layers between the muslin.
All the seam allowances will be kept in between the layers and won’t expose in the stocking lining.
- Turn the cuff right side out and sew the twine loop on the seam allowance of the rear side.
Turn the cuff right side in again.
- With the twine loop on top, insert the stocking into the cuff, align and match seam lines, pin, and sew around.
- Turn the stocking right side out.
Fold the cuff down, align and match the top seam line to the bottom (the one sewn to the stocking). Tuck in the seam allowance.
- Slip stitch along the seam lines.
Fold the cuff down.
- This completes the basic and plain Burlap Christmas Stocking.
You may choose to leave it plain or spice it up further with embellishment.
For a fast embellishment, you may glue the accessories to the stocking since it is not going to be washed. Of course, you may sew them on too.
I used pom-pom trim, mini ricrac, and a crochet snowflake (the same pattern I crochet as the Christmas Coasters) for the embellishment.
I hang a spiral paper star on the plain burlap stocking.
You may add store-bought Christmas tree ornaments or any of your DIY ornaments too.
Here they are, hanging at my cozy fireplace. IF you are interested to make the silver star that I attached to the second burlap Christmas Stocking, here is the How-To.
Notes
You may substitute the burlap with your favorite cotton. You can either add medium interfacing to make the fabric stiffer or add batting to make the stocking looks fuller or just add nothing at all. If you are using cotton, just treat the combination of both cotton and interfacing or batting as a piece of burlap.
Get the full article at https://www.craftpassion.com/burlap-christmas-stocking/
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Melinda
Saturday 16th of December 2023
4 years! My stocking, which I still use every year, is now nearly 50 years old. My mother made my sister and I, and her and dad, stocking many decades ago, complete with our names stitched down the fronts in felt. All I see is love when I pull it out of the decorations box. But now my family deserves their own heirloom stockings to use year after year. And your pattern is the exact shape I've been looking for! And you've even got it lined, which I also wanted. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful crafts and excellent instructions! Happy Christmas and whatever else you may celebrate!
Heidi
Monday 19th of December 2022
This is probably a newbie sewing question, but the note on the pattern says, "Please add 3/8th seam allowance for all templates." Does this mean I need to cut the pattern 3/8 larger than printed?
Craft Passion
Thursday 22nd of December 2022
You are right, Heidi. The template given is the exact size of the Christmas stocking. You will need to cut the fabric bigger which includes the seam allowance of 3/8". This is the sewing practice in my country.
Angela Maus
Sunday 1st of December 2019
I'm getting ready to make these (8 of them to be precise). I want to add batting but not sure how to stack it as I'm still pretty new to sewing. Help! Lol
Craft Passion
Sunday 15th of December 2019
Sorry for the late reply, I hope it is still in time to answer you. Just sandwich the muslin between your batting fabrics (from top you should see batting, 2 layers of muslin, batting, followed by 2 layers of burlap) and sew.
Alison
Saturday 16th of November 2019
If I wanted to have a name embroidered on the cuff before I attach the cuff to the stocking, where would I position the name? The best I can tell, it would go approximately where "Cuff" is written on the pattern piece.
This will be the second time I've used this pattern. I made 8 the first round out of burlap. This round will be 3 out of cotton. Thank you for such a wonderful pattern!
Pella
Monday 29th of October 2018
I used your pattern to make 2 burlap stockings and 2 cotton ones. All turned out beautiful. Thanks so much.
Craft Passion
Wednesday 31st of October 2018
Enjoy sewing more for your Christmas preps :)