Photo Stockings

When my oldest child was small, I decided to make photo stockings. I got some red gingham (for my daughter) and some green gingham (for the boys), made Christmas stockings, and cross stitched their names near the top. Then I found photos of them from birth on, applied rick-rack around the edges, and whip-stitched them onto the stockings. I have pictures of them from their first Christmas through high school graduation. As each child graduated, I made them a cross stitched stocking to take with them. It’s fun to hang their stockings each year and see how they looked throughout the years.

Here is a photo stocking for Gabe, our new grandson. The first photo is always edged in gold.


Here is Alex's stocking (our 2 yr. old grandson), so you can get an idea of how it looks with photos added each year.