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Good Reading : December January 2010
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You will need Remnants of old jumpers or sturdy upholstery fabric Ribbon Dressmaker's chalk Dressmaker's scissors Embroidery needle and thread Sewing machine and thread Needle and thread Instructions 1. Lay out your remnants and find two pieces large enough to draw a generous boot or sock shape on. 2. Find two contrasting strips of fabric, which can be used for the cuff on the stocking. 3. Take your chalk and draw the outline of a boot (or sock) onto the wrong side of your first piece of fabric (don't forget to allow for extra seam allowance all round), then cut it out. 4. Use this as a patter n for your second piece, laying and pinning the fabrics right sides together before cutting. 5. Cut two contrasting cuff strips to fit along the top of each stocking. 6. With right sides together, sew a cuff to the top of each stocking shape. 7. Before you sew the stocking shapes together, take your chalk again and write your guest's name on the front of the stocking. You could also draw a small motif such as a snowflake or star somewhere on the stocking -- but remember to allow for seams and don't go right to the raw edge. 8. Use your embroidery needle and thread to embroider name and motif. 9. Take your ribbon and sew in a line across the cuff.You might want to do this with the embroidery needle and thread in large stitches of a contrasting shade. 10. With right sides together, and matching cuff seams, sew the stockings together around the outside edge, leaving the top edge open. Zigzag along the raw edges of the seam allowance if you think your fabric is going to fray badly. 11. Snip carefully across the seam allowance at 1--2 cm intervals on the curves, taking care not to cut the stitching, and then turn the stocking right side out. 12. Fold in the raw edges at the top in a single or double hem and topstitch around the edge to secure. 13. Take another short piece of ribbon, fold in a loop with the ends together and sew the ends inside the opening of the stocking. 14. Pin stockings to the underside of a wooden mantelpiece, or loop through with string and hang on hooks on a picture rail above your Christmas tree. Pattern and image from The Crafty Minx by Kelly Doust, published by Murdoch Books r rp $39.95. SHARE THE GIFT OF GOOD READING! SIX ISSUE SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLY $48.50. To subscribe call 02 8090 1051 or email subscriptions@goodreadingmagazine.com.au or visit www.goodreadingmagazine.com FEBRUARY 2009 WWW.GOODREADINGMAGAZ OVER $2500 WORTH OF BOO BARBARA O'NEAL on romance and The Lost Recipe for Happiness Doctor’s Diagnosis STRANGE CURES IN HISTORY Touring the sites of English crime fiction MAGIC AND M Margo Lanagan on Ten SELF-PUBLISHING Getting your book in pr int Meet National Book Award winner PETER MATTHIESSEN PP255003/055 81 9 771445 283006 87 ISSN 1445-2839 PP255003/05581 JUNE 2008 A$7.95 inc GST NZ$8.95 inc GST WWW.GOODREADINGMAGAZINE.COM OVER $2500 WORTH OF BOOKS TO BE WON 9 771445 283006 80 ISSN 1445-2839 THE WOLF CHRONICLES BOOK 1 PROMISE OF THE WOLVES TRICKED YOU! Great Literary Hoaxes Henry Rollins ON HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS LOTS OF PRIZES TO WIN! A Reading Life BOB CARR’S BOOK ON BOOKS Over 60 books reviewed! A Year in Prague LOOKING FOR YOURSELF, FINDING YOUR FATHER AUSTR ALIAN SUPPLEMENT ✛ Debra Adelaide ✛ Tony Park ✛ Henry Handel Richardson practical book KELLY DOUST has scores of crafty ideas and patterns in her new book The Crafty Minx, and we chose a seasonal one: Christmas stockings. Personalised gift stockings
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