Friday, November 9, 2007

Dots Revealed


Well, I was surprised that so many of you were so intrigued by my dots. I had thought about posting the recipes from our fabulous dinner last night, but I decided to end the suspense and let you in on my little project. I had a couple of close guesses with a tree skirt. You were all on the right track with a Christmas item, but you aimed too big because I tricked you by piling them up. So go a little smaller and you get stockings - fun, retro, yet modern Christmas stockings with two of my favorite trims - ric rac and pom pom trim. They were so much fun to put together and watching all the pieces come together. I first talked about here - remember the trip for the white cotton velveteen? I shopped here for the fabric on the cuffs. I bought the wool felt when our local Hancocks went out of business. The ric rac is mostly from my stash and the pom pom trim was from the town fabric shop. I haven't talked about it much, but this project has been in the works for a while and it just took it a while to get to the final product. And now that it's here, I'm so pleased with them. They're for the shop and I'm hoping to have them all listed in the next few days.

And I have to thank my friend Phoebe, for sparking all of this Christmas creativity. She sent me an e-mail a month or so ago asking for Christmas stockings that were fun, but a little different, but not so different that they couldn't be a timeless heirloom. So, here is the set I made for her three little ones. If you're into something more like this, I'll be making a special custom listing for the shop.


And I have to thank Sandi for the photos! And her daughter Eliza for being our model up there in that first shot - thanks so much!

15 comments:

Melissa said...

You SHOULD do a tree skirt to match! Those are SO cute and would go perfect w/ my current christmas decor! (Too bad Justin's sis just bought the kids new stockings w/ their names on them. I'd be all over that!)

Sarah and Jack said...

I love it! These are darling.

Emily said...

Those are so cute! So much better than the ones I bought last year:(

lera said...

Cute. I *love* the dots.

Karyn said...

Those are the most amazing Christmas stockings I've ever seen! I love them!

Laurie said...

Beautiful, FUN, stockings.

Darcy said...

I love them! Especially with the names on them. You are so creative! :)

Beth said...

They are fabulous! And I agree a tree skirt would be amazing.

These would look great with my vintage 1950s silver Christmas tree.

Anonymous said...

Cute cute CUTE!

Breanna said...

LOVE them!

Windybrook Spinner said...

SO cute Jessi! I love them. Way to go being so creative. You are really taking off with all this, aren't you? Wonderful.

Pieces said...

Those are so fabulous!

Keli said...

Wow. I can see a fun theme of dots and tress taking over the craft stores in the years to come. Very trendy and cool!

Grayson said...

Those stockings are so cute!! I may have to order one for Mattie!

My Trendy Tykes said...

Now those are some CUTE stockings!

Linda