A stocking for the boy

Last year, Lucy said we needed to get Dexter a stocking.  He was still an inside baby then, so we just got him a little baby stocking.  This year, we needed to get him a new stocking so that Santa can fill it with tons of amazing things.  

We headed to Target.  We looked and looked.  And we found a bunch.  There was a really cool Yoda one, a Darth Vadar one and a couple other really cool ones.  But they were all over $14 each.  And really, anything more than a couple dollars for a stocking, for me, is ridiculous.  And I know, I could have just gotten a plain ol' red one, but what kind of fun is that?  

When we got back home, I went digging around in all my totes full of fabric and found this scrap of space fabric that a friend of mine sent to me.  And then I found all this let over felt.  I traced my own stocking and created my own pattern, which I guess wasn't that hard to do after all, but I am a very mediocre sewer so I need all the help that I can get.  

So anyway, I came up with this: 

It's not the best thing I could have done, but like I said, I kinda suck at sewing.  But regardless of it's errors, I love it.  I like it so much I want to make one for the rest of us too.  

Now on to how it happened, my feble attempt at a pattern:

A close up of the fabric:

Making some cuts:

And the finished product again:

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