In 2003 I made Christmas Stockings for a family, this photo shows them hanging above their fireplace in New York and they can be seen in more detail on my website. This year I a received an email asking me if I would consider making 2 more stockings for their growing family, twin stockings for twin boys…I had no hesitation before saying yes.
 My first thoughts were to how I could make sure that the new stockings would connect and match in with the first 4, I decided that the surest way to make sure that the new stockings would blend in with the older ones was to use the same fabrics, I had kept samples of the fabrics in my visual Journal so I pulled out as many as I could still match up and asked my son (to get a boy perspective) to select 10 of them thinking that I would then use the same ten in both new stockings so that they would have a connection with each other…At that point I was going to piece each stocking differently but when I got the fabrics in my hand I thought it might be fun to piece both stockings the same for their twinness and then use the embroidery and embellishments to give them their individuality and it will be a nice creative challenge to see how different I can make them look…Two of the first stockings have red tops and two have green tops so I decided that two gold topped ones would complete the set nicely and I did use different gold fabrics for the tops so that all the tops are different
Already by using different parts of the printed fabrics they have started to look different and I have pulled out a selection of red, green white and gold threads, ribbons, beads and the box of Christmas Charms…I am ready for stitching.
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