New Year's socks for gifts with your own hands

The Western Christmas fashion is gradually coming to Russia. Now it becomes popular for us to pack gifts from Santa Claus in beautiful New Year's socks. These products are used as interior decorations. Read how to do these things with your own hands. Choose the method you like. Try to make yourself an interesting festive decor.

New Year's socks for gifts: manufacturing options

You can create a presentation package or a souvenir of this kind in the following ways:

• Staple.
• To tie.
• Run out of paper.

The latest method is for Christmas decorations, interior decorations, postcards, magnets - things that are not packaging, but play a stylish festive decor. They are, as a rule, made flat or relief, using the method of application using the principles of scrapbooking.

Knits are actually ordinary socks or knee socks, only made of colored thread of the appropriate shade. Things turn out bright and smart. If you know how to knit ordinary socks with knitting needles, it will not be difficult to make such a festive accessory.

Sewing socks is also quite simple. If fleece or felt is used, the stitch is made on the right side, and the small details of the decor even stick to the surface. The use of other fabrics in which the slices are showered requires the use of a more sophisticated technology with a stitch from the wrong side and subsequent eversion of the product.

In a word, there is something 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's socks for gifts. The list is presented according to the respective groups.

When working with paper, prepare the following:

• Various types of decorative design paper or scrapbooking sheets.
• Pencil.
• Ruler.
• Scissors or clerical knife.
• Glue.
• Decorative elements.

To make New Year's socks with knitting needles:

• Same-sized knitting needles.
• Yarn is appropriate to the tool thickness (usually several shades).
• Schemes (if you are going to perform some complicated pattern on the surface of the sock).
• Ornaments.

To sew New Year's socks, you will need the following:

• Paper for the pattern.
• Pencil.
• Template, stencil, pattern.
• Scissors.
• Pins.
• Fabric of different colors.
• Needle with thread.
• Sewing machine (it is convenient to sew and manually, for example, from fleece or felt).
• Decor.

As you can see, none of the presented methods require anything special or expensive. If you do needlework, all of the above is probably already at home.

How to decorate socks

Whichever way to create the basis of the product you choose, you still have to use additional decor. Usually he, not counting the color and texture of the thing itself, and creates a festive impression, gives the object a smart appearance.

New-year knitted socks, sewn or made of paper can be decorated with the same methods, or rather, elements. For decoration use the following:

• Mishura.
• Satin ribbons, braid to create a loop-pendant.
• Bows.
• Asterisks, snowflakes, made by shaped punchers or bought in a store.
• Beads.
• Buttons.
• Beads.
• Patches (stickers).
• Applications.
• Lace.
• Obolochki.
• Bells.
• Sprigs of an artificial Christmas tree.
• Thematic prints.
• Pompons.
• Figured patches.

It all depends on your imagination and the amount of time that you are willing to spend on creating a gift.

Souvenirs made of paper

To New Year's socks from decorative sheets of paper could decorate your interior, tree or become a postcard, you need to perform the following actions:

1. Make a pattern in the shape of a sock.
2. Make blanks from textured, embossed, metallized or other paper.
3. Prepare the decor.
4. Glue all parts.
5. Carry out the suspension.

The souvenir is ready.

Socks made of felt

Very handsome New Year's sock with your own hands can be sewn from fleece or felt. Work like this:

1. Find the sample you like or design your own design.
2. Cut directly from the fabric or, after making paper patterns, all the details.
3. Sew on the front side of the large elements (the shape of the sock).
4. Sew or glue the decor.
5. Carry out a loop-eyelet or string.

Lovely gift wrapping is ready. You can put content in it.

How to sew socks for gifts from any fabric

Working with felt and fleece is really no problem. The technology described in the previous section is simple. The material does not require the processing of seams, so it can be sewn by hand even on the right side.

If you sew clothes or souvenirs from shreds of different quality, probably, there are always unnecessary, unused pieces. Just their such "waste" can make a beautiful New Year's sock with their own hands.

The technology is as follows:

1. Prepare a pattern of the details of the sock and decor from the paper. If you do not have a whole piece of scrap on the entire sock, make it out of several pieces, cutting the paper blank into elements of the appropriate size.
2. Pin the patterns to the fabric with pins.
3. Circle the details along the contour, make allowances for the seams.
4. Cut out the blanks.
5. Sweep or immediately sew the sock elements along the wrong side.
6. Sweep the slices and sew the top edge.
7. Turn it to the front.
8. Sew decor and suspension.

Working with a regular fabric is slightly longer than with a fleece or felt, but the products are very neat and tidy.

So, make beautiful New Year's socks yourself is not difficult. Use them to decorate the house or to wrap gifts. Especially it will be pleasant to children.