Christmas Stockings Quilt Block and Pattern – Jelly Roll Friendly!

Learn how to sew a Christmas stocking quilt block – and make it into a quilt! This pattern and video tutorial is jelly roll friendly – plus a background fabric.

Sewing the stocking quilt block couldn’t be easier and make many to finish up a super cute quilt.

For the stocking quilt block and quilt pattern you are going to need just a few supplies. A jelly roll let me sew up 30 stocking quilt blocks.

I did kind of move the fabric around – some of these were lighter in the background and I could use those instead of the background strips if I wanted, just watch that you don’t have enough for the stockings themselves.

The small square of fabric on the heal of the stocking can really be either the background fabric or it could be a pattern from the jelly roll. I think the plaid that I had would have been just fine in the stocking heal.

You can play around with your fabric strips and come up with some fun strip combinations for these stockings.

The top of the stocking can also be whatever you’d like as well. I feel like I should have used more of the solid prints on that spot! The green really pops in the stocking block.

Again, audition out the strips – this is the fun part of making quilts too!

Materials Needed:

• jelly roll
• background – 1 3/4 yards

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How to Sew Stocking Quilt Block

To start the quilt block you are going to grab your supplies and precut the pieces you need.

For EACH stocking quilt block, you’ll need:

• Background:
  • 1- 6 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
  • 1- 2″ x 10 1/2″
  • 1- 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
• Jelly Roll Strips:
  • 1- 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
  • 3- 10 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
• Top of the stocking block
  • 1- 2 1/2″ x 9 1/2″

Step 1- Lay the strips of fabric that you’ve cut into the stocking design. You can move the fabric strips around at this point – no harm in trying it out in different spots! Make sure you don’t have two fabrics that are the same next to each other.

Step 3- Grab your hera marker or pencil to draw a line diagonally on the wrong side of the small square

Step 4- Crease or draw a line from corner to corner on the wrong side of the fabric

Step 5- Sew on the drawn line

Step 6- Cut 1/4″ past the sewn line

Step 7- Sew the two smaller strips on the left side to make one larger strip

Step 8- Sew the next strip to this unit

Step 9 – Sew the next strip to this unit

Step 10 – Sew the next strip with the small triangle in the corner to this unit

Step 11- Sew the background strip to the unit

Step 12- Sew the top of the stocking to the unit

Step 13- Press the block well and your stocking quilt block is finished

How to Sew the Stocking Quilt Block Video:

Make a Christmas Stockings Quilt Pattern-

Step 1- Sew 20 stocking quilt blocks

Step 2 – Trim if needed to 9 1/2″ X 12 1/2″

Step 3 – Cut 25 – 2″ x 12 1/2″ background strips

Step 4- Lay the blocks and strips out. Sew 5 rows of 6 stocking quilt blocks and 5 of these sashing strips

Step 5- Cut 4 long sashing strips: 2″ X 63″

Step 6 – Lay the rows out and place a sashing strip in between, sew the whole quilt together alternating the rows of blocks and long sashing strips

Finishing the Christmas Stockings Quilt

1. Cut or piece together your batting and a piece of quilt backing fabric.

2. Make a quilt sandwich with the backing, batting, and top.

3. Baste together with fusible batting, pins or basting spray.

3. Quilt as desired. A few of my favorite ways to quilt are Straight line quilting or cross hatch quilting. Use a walking foot on your sewing machine. Trim away the extra batting and backing.

4. Cut strips of fabric for the binding. Cut 2 1/2” tall (sometimes I use 2 1/4″) binding strips. Sew the binding strips together and bind using your favorite technique. 

More Holiday Sewing Projects and Quilts:

• Pumpkin Table Runner
• 10+ Fat Quarter Christmas Quilts
• Don’t open till Christmas gift bag tutorial
• Christmas sewing projects
• Simple sewing projects for the holidays

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