2021 Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge Announced and Christmas Stocking Sewing Round Up

2021 Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge Announced and Christmas Stocking Sewing Round Up

The Nancy Zieman Productions Team is excited to announce the 2021 Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge, taking place November 4–24, 2021! You’re invited to join the 2021 NZP Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge by stitching a Christmas Stocking and showcasing your sewing and quilting talents. Stocking entries may be any color palette, and may feature any sewing, quilting, or machine embroidery techniques and/or embellishments—use your imagination! Enter one Christmas Stocking that has been sewn within the last year and has not been entered into previous Nancy Zieman Productions Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenges. All challenge details are listed near the bottom of this blog posting. You could win a prize from one of our generous 2021 Christmas Socking Sewing Challenge Sponsors!

Join the 2021 Nancy Zieman Productions Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge!

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Find all the inspiration you’ll need to sew for Christmas, right here! In today’s Christmas Stocking Pattern Roundup, view a gallery of stocking designs and choose one or more to fit your décor. In just a couple evenings of sewing enjoyment, you’ll have a new stocking, or two, or four!

Stocking Pattern Round Up

Monogrammed Christmas Stocking Sewing Tutorial by Nancy Zieman Productions: Create your Holiday! Make our Monogrammed Stocking an afternoon of sewing. Personalize your stocking with our FREE! Applique Monogram Printable PDF and our easy step-by-step sewing tutorial!

ModDot Christmas Stocking by Nancy Zieman Productions: From elegant to whimsical, Christmas stockings are a great way to add a pop of holiday cheer to any room. Plus, they can readily be sewn in a few hours of enjoyable sewing time.

Half-Square Patchwork Stocking by Nancy Zieman Productions: This is a perfect stash-buster project or use a package of charm squares. The half-square triangles stitch together quickly using the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge.

Tumbler Stocking by Nancy Zieman Productions: From elegant to whimsical, Christmas stockings are a great way to add a pop of holiday cheer to any room. Plus, they can readily be sewn in a few hours of enjoyable sewing time. Using Grandmother’s One Patch Template: Tumbler Block allows you to create this classy silk design in a snap.

Choose your favorite reindeer, Or Santa’s Hat, and make a Kraft-Tex Cone “Stocking” from C&T Publishing.

Here’s a freebie Christmas stocking pattern from Martingale’s Stitch This! Blog. Dawn Anderson created this traditional Christmas red and green stocking with a whimsical pointed toe. The cuff is richly finished with velvet ribbon edged with rows of bugle beads.

Make a Christmas Stocking from a T-shirt! T-shirts, we all have them. Whether from schools, vacations, concerts, sport events, or charitable causes, T-shirts hold memories usually stored in a drawer. Mary Mulari, our recycling expert, is here to encourage you to give those T-shirts a second chance and create unique gifts while renewing memories.

I {Heart} Pellon Stocking from Pellon Projects: Ready to dress up that mantle in style? The I {heart} Pellon stocking with patchwork detail and optional embroidery will make any mantle Santa-ready.

How to Enter

Christmas Stocking Sewing Challenge Guidelines

• Select or create your design. All sewing, quilting, serging, machine embroidery, and embellishment techniques are eligible. Stocking must be made within the last year and may not have been entered into previous NZP Stocking Sewing Challenges.
• How to enter: Send one high-resolution quality image of your Christmas Stocking to [email protected] by 11:59 p.m. CST on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. Include your full name, hometown, and a sentence or two about your Christmas Stocking.
• One entry per sewist; open US residents in the 48 contiguous states only.
• All Christmas Stockings will be judged, and winning entries will receive a prize from our generous sponsors! To be announced soon.

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• Grab our Stocking Sewing Challenge blog badge and let your friends know about this exciting sewing challenge.
• Share your progress and projects on your social media sites using the hashtag: #NZPStockingChallenge

Schedule:

• November 4, 2021—Stocking Challenge Kick Off.
• November 24, 2021—Stocking Challenge Deadline to Enter.
• November 26–November 29, 2021—A Panel of Judges Review Entries.
• November 30, 2021—Winners Announced! All decisions made by judges are final.