Oui Ones Stocking

Sewn from French blue-and-white fabric and carrying dolls dressed like French schoolgirls, these stockings are an international hit. Hang them from bedposts to encourage dreams of distant lands. One stocking has the look of a boarding school uniform with a simple check bootie and white cotton pique cuff. The other stocking wears the same cuff with fabric printed with French sayings. Giant rickrack trims the cuffs. Stuff the stocking with old-fashioned gifts, such as an orange in the toe, candy, and a doll.

• 3/4-yard heavy print fabric for stocking
• 1/2-yard pique for cuff and lining
• 2/3-yard wide rickrack
• small hook or loop for hanging
• sewing thread

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1. Unless otherwise stated, sew with right sides together using 1/4-inch seam allowances. Clip all curves before turning and press all seams after turning. Enlarge the Oui Ones Stocking pattern 000 times or 000 percent. According to the pattern, cut two each of stocking, cuff, and lining.

2. With rickrack on right side of fabric, baste rickrack along the shorter of the two long edges of the cuff, centering the seam on the rickrack. Join the cuff and lining pieces along this same seam.

3. Sew the remaining long edge of the cuff to the stocking top. Sew the stocking front to back along all but the top edges. Turn the lining to the inside so the rickrack extends beyond the edge of the cuff. Fold down the cuff. Tack a hanging loop or hook to the back of the stocking along the upper edge.