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PHOTOGRAPHS BY NAMETK NAME © 2017 MEREDITH CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE. Handmade Handmade With Care With CREATED BY SILKE STODDARD AND TANYA AND GRAFF STODDARD BY SILKE CREATED PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAOLA + MURRAY MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

Leather SUPPLIES THE DETAILS: Templates Craft tool spacer Lambskin leather (#9125- 61), from $40 for 5 sq. Stockings (following pages) Stitching awl ft.; poly cutting board, Lambskin leather from $10; mini leather Polyester heavy-duty punch set, $14; poly mallet, Removable spray thread from $23; Craftool spacer set, $30; Craftool mount Stitching needle Pro stitch-ing awl, $30; Poly cutting board Cotton twill tape and stitching needle, $4 Leather punch ribbon, ¾ inch wide for 10, tandyleather.com. Gutermann Top Stitch Poly mallet Heavy Duty thread, $1.75, createforless.com. Cotton Rubber cement twill tape, ¾",$1.25 per yd., or leather glue purlsoho.com.

© 2017 MEREDITH CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE. 1 2 3 Print out both templates. Fold your leather piece When your punched monogram is finished, When you’ve sewn all around, secure the thread in half (right sides facing), and lay the stocking lay the larger stocking template back on and trace with a dab of glue and cut, leaving ½ inch or so pattern on top. Mark the top edge with a pencil, it with a sharp pencil onto the wrong side of extra (this will be hidden under the ribbon). but don’t cut anything yet. Determine where your the leather. Cut out with sharp scissors. Repeat the Cut about 7 inches of ribbon for the loop. Sew it punched monogram will be, and make another process for the back of the stocking (which doesn’t with a few stitches to the top, sides aligned with slight mark there. Unfold the leather to a single have the punched monogram). Using rubber the stocking side. Cut approximately 17 inches layer again. Create a monogram in dots on a piece cement or leather glue, adhere the front and back of ribbon for the edge, and glue it to the top of paper, in reverse from how you want it to of the stocking (wrong-sides facing), only at edge with glue or cement, overlapping by ½ inch appear (as shown, above). Cut it out, spray it with the very edge, about ½ inch all around. Let dry. on the wrong side of the stocking. Let dry. removable spray mount, and lightly press it onto Take the leather seam pattern; center it on top the designated spot on the backside of the of your stocking. (It will be slightly smaller than the leather. Place leather on cutting board. Put some stocking, and will be used to create the sewing thicker leather (or a few scrap layers) between seam for the stocking.) Using the spacer wheel, the stocking leather and the board. (The scrap slowly trace along the pattern. (If you need to piece doesn’t need to be the full size of the stop at some point, make sure to start again at letter; just move it along as you punch.) Place the the same distance of the small indentations punch directly on one of the dots of the paper the wheel is making, as these will be your guide template, and bang down with mallet firmly for sewing.) Use the stitching awl to poke through through the paper and leather. (You may have to all indentations through both layers of the hit harder than you might imagine; take care not stocking, making sure you’re pushing straight to tear the leather instead of cutting it.) down. (The spacer wheel won’t press through Continue punching out the dots, moving your to the other side, so this extra step will help keep scrap piece underneath as you go. your stitches straight.) With sewing thread and a leather hand-sewing needle, start a running stitch from from one of the top edges. PETER ARDITO PETER

SUPPLIES Templates (previous and following pages) 1 2 3 4 Print and cut out Fold the fabric (right- Cut ribbon and hand- Fold the shearling (right Medium-weight the stocking pattern sides facing), and place stitch a loop onto the sides facing). Place the fabric (see previous pages) the pattern on top. top edge. (The raw cuff template on top, Shearling and the cuff template Cut out both layers at edge will be hidden left (straight) side on Sewing supplies (following page). once. Sew all around. behind the shearling.) the fold of the shear- Turn the stocking ling. Cut out the shear- Cotton twill tape right-side out. ling. Hand-stitch the ribbon, ¾ inch wide shearling cuff to the top THE DETAILS: edge of the stocking. Shearling hide, Stitch the edges closed From $29 each, using a whip stitch. moodfabrics.com. Cotton twill tape, ¾", $1.25 per yd., purlsoho.com.

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SUPPLIES Template (on following page) Jute stocking Wool-silk embroidery floss Embroidery needle

THE DETAILS: Jute stocking (T153-21), 10" by 24", $10, burlapfabric .com.Trio floss, $6, purlsoho.com. 1 2 Print out cross-stitch Split the embroidery template. Mark out floss to a single strand. on the stocking’s cuff Following the cross- where your design stitch pattern, start at will begin. the left and sew a half- stitch (from bottom left to top right) across each row (as shown, left), counting out your stitches. Complete the cross-stitch by going back, left to right.