The Stockings Were Hung...

I'm loving the look of the very natural yet somewhat elegant burlap stockings I've been seeing on display this year, and decided that I needed to re-create them.  I followed this brilliant tutorial for general Christmas Stocking at Make it Love it , and then just went from there to embelish them. 

As burlap tends to be very organic and inconsistent, I did line them, as although I wanted them to be somewhat rustic in appearance, I also wanted them to be functional.

The stockings are going to be part of gift exchange on Gabriola  this year, so the feminine one I've got some of my earrings that I created in, and Tom's been hard at work tying flies for the masculine ones - am loving the idea of wrapping in functional items :)