Concider all the Christmas stockings on the market today. They come in all sizes and styles. They vary from inexpensive felt stockings to extravagant stockings glittering with a miriad of embellishments.

Usually we want our Christmas Stocking to be personal with our name one it. Santa has a hard time deciphering what to put in a stocking if it doesn't have a name, right? So make it easy on the old elf and put your name on it!

An old tradition has been the Hand knitted Christmas stocking. You will find a variety of Hand knitted Christmas stocking. that would delight anyone from baby to grandpa and grandma.

A NEW Christmas stocking.with an OLD tradition may be the perfect gift! Don't forget that a pair of Hand knitted Christmas stockingsas a wedding gift will be treasured by the newly weds in starting their own Christmas tradition.

Don't discount the fact that your pet would like a Christmas stocking. Santa always looks for their name on a Christmas stocking, too!

Making your own soft chenille is fun and easy and looks wonderful when you use it to embellish many different projects. Fun Wall Hanging Patterns are great to use this fluffy chenille on.

Step One: First you will need some tracing paper. You can get that at an art shop or your local craft store would have it as well.

Step Two: Cut a piece of the tracing paper into a square. Starting at the center of the square, draw a diagonal line from corner to corner. Each consecutive line will be drawn 3/8 of an inch from the first line until the square is completely filled as shown. If you want to make a lot of chenille from one color of fabric, use a 9 x 9 inch square of tracing paper. For a lot less chenille, simply cut a smaller square of tracing paper. You can save the chenille in a bag with a closure and use it for many other projects.

Step Three: Cut 3 pieces of fabric the same size as the tracing paper you made in step two. Layer them all with right side of fabric facing up.

Step Four: Place the tracing paper with the lines drawn on top of the fabric. Place paper on the right side of the fabric. If you have already layered your fabric with the right side facing up, you can simply lay the marked tracing paper on top of the fabric.

Step Five: Using a small stitch length, (approximately 10-12 stitches per inch) sew down each line that was drawn on the tracing paper. Sew through all 3 layers of fabric and through the tracing paper on top as one unit. Start sewing on the middle line, then work on each side of the middle line evenly until all lines are sewn. You may stop sewing approximately 2 inches from each side.

Step Seven:Take the side corners of the sewn block (the corners near the last stitching lines) and pull tightly. This will tear the paper away from the stitch for easy removal.

Step Eight: Tear away all tracing paper from fabric layers

Step Nine: Cut between stitching lines. An exact measurement would be 3/16 inch from stitching line.

Step Ten: Sew bias chenille pieces onto desired project. Because this is a bias piece, it will go nicely around curves. Be sure to back stitch the beginning and ending of all pieces. If a piece of chenille is too short to go around the total area of your project, just place a second piece on top of the previous piece. Make sure to back stitch where you added the chenille to the first piece of chenille. When you brush it, you will not be able to see where one stopped and the other started! After sewing all pieces where you want them, use a stiff bristled brush to brush the chenille in a circular motion until it fluffs up. (The brush I used was purchased for fly tying and has stiff wire bristles. It is PERFECT!)

Step Eleven: After fluffing the chenille up a bit, spray a "mist" of water on the chenille and continue to brush in a circular motion. It doesn't take long until it is all fluffy!!

Step Twelve: Finish your project as desired.