How To Sew A Mini Stocking | Free Printable Pattern

December 11, 2025

How To Sew a Mini Christmas Stocking | Free Printable Pattern

This is a quick and easy sewing project, perfect for using up your scraps of fabric. I created this pattern based on a mini stocking that a retailer is selling, designed to hold flatware.

However, it can also be used to hold a gift card or smaller items such as:

Self-Care & Beauty Items

Lip balm
Mini hand lotion
Nail file or mini manicure tools
Facial sheet mask (folded)
Hair scrunchie or claw clip

Kids’ Mini Stocking Fillers

Stickers
Novelty pencils and an eraser

Food & Drink Treats

Chocolates or smaller baked items
Candy canes or candies
Tea bags or hot cocoa packets (folded)
Single-serve honey sticks

Materials

outer fabric
lining fabric
ribbon (optional for hang tab)
thread

Tools

sewing machine
clips or pins
iron
point turner

How to sew a mini Christmas stocking

Step 1

Cut out your pattern pieces, ensuring they mirror each other.

Use a temporary fabric pen to mark where you’ll add your hang tab (if you’re adding one) and where you’ll leave an opening in the lining, as indicated on the lining pattern piece.

Step 2 (optional)

Sew your hang tab between the two lines indicated on the pattern and to the right side of one of your lining pieces. Make sure the cut ends of the ribbon line up with the edge of your lining.

Step 3

Layer your lining and outer pattern pieces with right sides together, matching up the top edges.

Using a 1/2″ seam allowance, stitch along the top, then press the seams open.

Step 4

Place your two pieces together, matching up the seams and clipping into place.

Using a 1/2″ seam allowance, sew all around the stocking, leaving the opening in the lining to turn right side out.

Step 5

Press the seam open along the straight sides only.

Trim the seam allowance to about 1/4″ away from your stitching. Don’t trim the seam allowance where the opening is.

Then cut a few notches to the front of the ankle and make clips around the toe and heel, staying a couple of millimetres away from your stitching.

Step 6

Use the opening in the lining to turn your stocking right side out. Press the outer portion of your stocking and the hem of your opening.

Step 7

Sew the opening closed, stitching close to the edge of the fabric.

Step 8

Push the lining into the outer part of the stocking, using a point turner to get the toe and heel into place. You’ll have about a 1/2″ cuff of the lining showing at the top.