Looking for simple stocking decorating ideas? Here’s a fun idea to make your decor a little more festive with this simple project.
Do you remember the crocheted mushrooms for fall?
I didn’t want Christmas to feel lonely.
So I asked my niece Genevieve, the mushroom crocheter’s sister (who is an amazing crocheter in her own right) if she would make me some mini stockings for Christmas.
I had a stocking plan.
An idea that I hadn’t ever seen before.
A project and a DIY that I knew that I knew that I KNEW would be the cutest project ever.
Genevieve started crocheting and she crocheted and crocheted and crocheted until several weeks later a bag of the cutest mini stockings arrived at the house.
(total aside: I am the luckiest duck of an aunt to have an army of crocheters who live in the neighborhood).
Before we discuss the stocking project—can I ask you a question?
Have you ever noticed that there is a lot of randomness going on around here?
Post after post of utter and complete randomness mixed in with a little shopping and some decorating.
Have you ever thought to yourself?
Where does it all come from?
Here.
This is where all the randomness finds a home.
In my notebook.
In the kitchen in a drawer, I keep a notebook of things that I intend to blog about one day. Blog post ideas and things that make me smile and projects I wish I were talented enough to make someday and observations that make me wonder why.
And those ideas go in here.
In my notebook.
Because I discovered within two weeks of writing the blog that if I didn’t write them down, those fleeting thoughts became just that—fleeting. So I started writing them down and now I have pages and pages and pages of ideas.
Pages of ideas like stocking ideas.
I think I wrote them down on page 235. Just kidding—you know there’s no way I have that many pages of ideas.
Oh, wait.
It was actually page 228
Here’s my stocking decorating idea.
I took this plate rack in the kitchen.
And then?
I turned it into this.
Doesn’t it look so happy?
It was the simplest of stocking decorating ideas.
All I did was take two different types of ribbon and tie it through the top of the stocking and then loop the other end through the edge of the plate rack and tie a bow.
That’s it.
There are three rows of bow-tied stockings on this plate rack.
SIMPLE Stocking Decorating Ideas
If you have stockings and want to try this project, here are a few of the things I learned along this stocking decorating journey:
- Cut the ribbon longer than you think you need. You can always trim the ribbon, but it’s so hard when the little ends of your ribbon are too short.
- I think it’s so much cuter if the stockings aren’t lined up perfectly.
- I would just start tying the stocking bow and let the stocking twist whichever way it wanted to go.
- Also, I didn’t alternate the ribbons perfectly either (the stockings are alternated red/green/red/green) to give it more of a twist.
But if we are keeping it real around here?
I didn’t actually write this idea down in my notebook.
You see, I had a WAAAAAY better idea for these stockings (or so I thought).
I bought a wire wreath and I was going to make a stocking wreath where I tied all the stockings onto the wreath and the entire wreath would be made completely out of crocheted stockings (now this is the part of the story where you take a sip of coffee and nod and think what a great idea that is).
But actually?
It was such a LAME idea.
The stockings just slid around the wreath and kind of glumped up into one big bunch. I tried to fix it. I tried wrapping the metal wreath. I tried tying the stockings in a pattern. I tried tying the stockings to the edges. I even thought about hot gluing them to the wreath, but I was worried it would damage the stockings and Genevieve worked so hard on them.
Maybe a grapevine wreath?
Maybe asking all of you for ideas?
Or MAYBE…..
….and this is the moment I turned and saw the plate rack and a lightbulb went off.
And in that moment?
I snatched victory from the jaws of project defeat.
Sometimes the notebook doesn’t know best.
Sometimes a brilliant idea happens in the moment.
Sometimes you have to roll with the projects.
And save the other 230 bits of randomness written in the notebook for another project day.
PS Toni just gave me the most brilliant of ideas!!!! I’m going to make them into an Advent calendar for Buddy—but I have to be so picky about what we feed him. Does anyone have a good recommendation for Christmas dog treats?
PPS For those who don’t crochet or don’t have a niece that crochets and want to create something similar I did a little research and found these.
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