Things You'll Need:
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Step 1
Choose your fabric. Look for velvet or damask which were popular winter fabrics in the Victorian era. For solid color stockings, use the Victorian deep, rich color palate, including burgundy, deep green, and golden amber. Prints were typically florals, and were very bold and ornate.
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Step 2
Collect objects to use as trim or decoration on your stocking. Little pieces of fabric remnants, bits of lace, small lengths of velvet ribbon, glass or plastic beads, fringe and small jingle bells add classic Victorian touches to your stocking.
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Step 3
Draw or trace a stocking pattern onto a large piece of paper--a de-constructed brown paper bag works perfectly. Make it as large or as small as you want. Remember that your final product will be about 1/2 an inch to an inch smaller all around than your pattern due to the seam allowances. Cut the pattern out.
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Step 4
Fold your main piece of fabric in half, with the right sides of the fabric together. Lay the paper pattern on top and pin it to the 2 layers of fabric. Cut out the fabric. Remove all of the pins.
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Step 5
Hold one piece of the cut-out fabric. Identify which edge will be at the top. Fold the fabric down 1/2 an inch on that edge, so that the wrong sides of the fabric are together. Pin into place and then sew that hem. Repeat with the second piece of cut-out fabric.
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Step 6
Put the two pieces of cut-out fabric back together, right sides together, and pin around the edges. Sew around the stocking with a 1/4 inch seam, leaving the top edge (where you have just hemmed in Step 5) unsewn. Turn the stocking right side out.
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Step 7
Decorate your stocking using all of the baubles you found in Step 2. Use a hot glue gun to attach the ribbons, lace and beads to the stocking in whichever way is pleasing to you. Glue one final loop of ribbon onto the top of the stocking, in the back, so that the stocking can be hung by the fireplace when it's finished.
