Western Christmas fashion is gradually coming to Russia. Now it is becoming popular with us to pack gifts from Santa Claus in beautiful New Year's socks. These products are also used as interior decorations. Read how to do these things with your own hands. Choose your favorite method. Try to make yourself interesting holiday decor.
Christmas socks for gifts: manufacturing options
You can create packaging for a presentation or souvenir of this kind in the following ways:
- Stitch.
- To tie.
- Run out of paper.
The last method is to receive Christmas toys, decorations for the interior, postcards, magnets - such things that are not packaging containers, but play the role of a stylish festive decor. They are made, as a rule, flat or embossed, by the method of application using the principles of scrapbooking.
Knitted products are actually ordinary socks or knee-highs, only made of colored threads of the corresponding shade. Things turn out bright and elegant. If you know how to knit ordinary socks with knitting needles, making such a festive accessory is not difficult.
Sewing socks is also quite simple. If fleece or felt is used, stitching is done on the right side, and small details of the decor are even glued to the surface. The use of other fabrics in which sections are crumbled requires the use of more sophisticated technology with a stitch from the wrong side and subsequent turning of the product.
In a word, there is plenty to choose from. Each method allows you to get spectacular accessories for the holiday.
Materials and Tools
The set of accessories that you need for the creative process depends on how you decided to make New Year socks for gifts. The list is presented in the relevant groups.
When working with paper, prepare the following:
- Different types of decorative designer paper or scrapbooking sheets.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Scissors or clerical knife.
- Glue.
- Decorative elements.
To make Christmas socks knitting need:
- The same size knitting needles.
- Yarn corresponding to the tool thickness (usually several shades).
- Schemes (if you are going to perform some kind of complex pattern on the surface of the sock).
- Jewelry.
To sew New Year's socks, you will need the following:
- Paper for a pattern.
- Pencil.
- Template, stencil, sample.
- Scissors.
- Pins
- Fabric of different colors.
- Needle with thread.
- Sewing machine (it is also convenient to sew manually, for example, from fleece or felt).
- Decor
As you can see, none of the presented methods require anything special and expensive. If you are engaged in needlework, all of the above probably already exist at home.
How to decorate socks
Whatever method of creating the basis of the product you choose, you still have to use additional decor. Usually it is he who, apart from the color and texture of the thing itself, creates a festive impression and gives the object an elegant appearance.
New Year's knitted socks, sewn or made of paper, can be decorated in the same ways, or rather, elements. For decoration use the following:
- Tinsel.
- Satin ribbons, braid to create pendant loops.
- Bows.
- Asterisks, snowflakes made by figured hole punchers or bought in a store.
- Beads.
- Buttons
- Beads.
- Patches (stickers).
- Applications.
- Lace.
- Wraps.
- Bells.
- Sprigs of artificial Christmas tree.
- Thematic prints.
- Pompons.
- Curly patches.
It all depends on your imagination and the amount of time you are willing to spend on creating a gift.
Paper souvenirs
In order for Christmas socks from decorative sheets of paper to decorate your interior, Christmas tree or become a postcard, you need to perform the following steps:
- Make a sock-shaped pattern.
- Make blanks from textured, embossed, metallized or other paper.
- Prepare the decor.
- Glue all the details.
- Complete the suspension.
The souvenir is ready.
Felt socks
You can sew a very beautiful Christmas sock with your own hands from fleece or felt. Work like this:
- Find your favorite pattern or design your own.
- Cut immediately from the fabric or, having previously made patterns from paper, all the details.
- Sew large items along the front (sock shape).
- Sew or glue the decor.
- Complete the eyelet or pendant.
Cute gift wrap is ready. You can put contents in it.
How to sew gift socks from any fabric
Working with felt and fleece is really not difficult. The technology described in the previous section is simple. The material does not require processing of seams, therefore, it can be sewn by hand even on the right side.
If you sew clothes or souvenirs from scraps of different quality, probably, there will always be extra, unused pieces. Just their such "waste" you can make a beautiful New Year sock with your own hands.
The technology is as follows:
- Prepare a pattern of sock and decor parts from paper. If you don’t have a piece of the whole sock, make it out of several parts by cutting the paper blank into elements of the appropriate size.
- Pin the patterns to the fabric.
- Circle the parts along the contour, make allowances for the seams.
- Cut the workpiece.
- Sweep or immediately sew on the typewriter the elements of the sock on the wrong side.
- Trim the cuts and hem the top hem.
- Turn to the front side.
- Sew the decor and pendant.
It’s a little longer to work with ordinary fabric than with fleece or felt, but the products are very neat and sound.
So, to make beautiful New Year socks on your own is easy. Use them for home decoration or gift wrapping. This will especially appeal to children.