After an ill-advised attempt to work with faux leather early in my sewing experiences, I did not get a stocking made for my husband last Christmas. I came across some fabric-weight faux suede on sale at Joann's at Halloween time and decided to try some of that instead. So now I'm working on making a neat boot-esque stocking for this Christmas.
My husband decided he wanted a tongue of green satin showing between laces on the top of the boot. With my front and back cut out and ready to go, I was a little stumped on how to get the tongue in and make it look polished. I ended up basting the right sides of the boot together up to the point where the tongue would start.
I took a straight rectangle of satin and sewed it right-sides together to one of the fronts of the boot. I then let the satin sit naturally with right-sides out to find the placement, pinned, and then sewed it.
After cutting off the excess satin, I finished the edges with an overlock stitch. I then removed the basting stitch and opened up the stocking so that I could insert grommets for the lacing.
With the tongue and grommets in place, I can now sew the boot front and back together with the tongue edge finished under the boot seam.
I'm not crazy about the waffling in the satin. If I had it to do over, I would try to figure out the placement of the satin piece first and center it on the lengthwise grain of the fabric. As I was sewing the two sides I could tell the difference in the pull of the side that had more bias in it. I also didn't do a test for tension and stitch length, which would have been a good idea. My husband says it looks cool, like the tongue is just floating behind the boot, but I never can tell if he's just being kind.
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