Bucilla Sugar Plum Fairy Christmas Stocking Felt Applique Kit, 85431 18-Inch

Turned out beautiful!!!!

Plan on two weeks to do this stocking.m

Beautiful self contained kit. I did it se sewing scissors, pins and little cardboard spools to store the thread but everything else was supplied. This is my first Buscilla and honestly I wish I would have started with one a little less complicated but this is the one my daughter chose.

This is for our grandaughter, my wife has been working on it for a while, she has made them for all of our family, these are great treasures

Have made this one before. Patterns are easy to match up. Fun to make.

Im sure that if I had the time to put this together, it would be really nice. I guess I didnt read the listing that said it requires LOTS of effort to put this thing together.

I love doing this kind of stitchery.

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My husband has a bucilla stocking that his grandmother made for him when he was a boy and he wanted me to make myself one when we first were married. I am NOT a crafty/sewing person at all!! I did not want to do it because it looked so hard. Finally last Christmas my 4 year old daughter and 2 year old son kept asking over and over to look at Daddys stocking. They loved it so much that I finally considered making each person one. I read countless reviews and thought Id try it. My daughter chose the Sugar Plum Fairy stocking. I ordered it end of November and I finished it Christmas Eve day. It took MANY MANY hours as everyone says but surprisingly to me it wasnt really difficult. It is a lot of tiny busy work. I did have a little trouble with making the chains and with the hair but other than that it goes piece by piece and comes together. I did it mostly at night and nap times. A few tips I got through reviews and through my own experience. 1. If you have young children do not use paper plates (as suggested in the directions) to sort your beads and sequins. this is just asking for trouble. I used a flat rectangular plastic tool box (or fishing tackle box) with little dividers. Then I left the beads and sequins in their plastic bags and just cut the top open. In the box I had everything together that I needed and I could put it away when my children were around and take it out when I was using it. 2. I cut little pieces of cardboard from toilet paper tubes and wrapped my thread around these by colors so they were all separated. I also wrote down what colors they were. This helped because in this stocking especially there are very similar colors and I had to count yards at the beginning to know which color it was. 3. The instructions on the stitches was not very clear to me so I looked up the stitches on youtube as others have suggested and that was how I learned how to do them. 4. After finishing the front piece of the stocking I hand stitched a piece of fabric to it before attaching the back. This way I can actually use it as the stocking Santa fills and I dont worry about the presents catching the threads in the back. Overall I was very pleased with this stocking and I have started on another one for my son.

Very pretty. Easy first time sewing project.