Stocking (not fillers!)

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Hello! I'm looking for a Christmas stocking for my baby girl - she'll be 9 months old at Christmas. I'd like to use it for her every year, so needs to be good quality, and nothing that says 'my first Christmas' etc, it needs to stand the test of time! Big enough to fit a chocolate orange in (obviously not until she's older but it was a tradition in my house growing up that I'd like to continue) and various stocking filler bits and pieces for years to come. Bonus points if books will fit in, so not too narrow! I'm not sure where to look, please send suggestions and recommendations!

I guess this very much depends on your style, but we have ones from Sophie Allport, and I have seen some lovely ones using Liberty Christmas fabric on Etsy

I got my dds initial sacks from matalan. Lovely quality. Bigger than a stocking but I found easy/cheap to fill still once they got older as I can stuff full of snacks and consumables! Always with a soft toy poking out of the top though 😊

The first couple of years I used a stocking and it was tricky finding stuff they wanted that would fit in!

Can't recommend any specifics but if possible, buy one with a little bit of 'give' in it. A couple of ours have a bit of stretch and a couple don't (acquired at different times) and tabe non-stretch ones limit the contents.

I love the ones the small business 'by Alex' makes

We have knitted fabric ones - they stretch to fit whatever needs to go in, like books etc, and look lovely when stuffed with all the different shapes!

Just any knitted one!

I still have mine from childhood. It is very stretched now, which isn't a bad thing (as more can fit in😄). We fill each other's with practical things we need (toiletries, snacks, etc).
Fits any awkward shapes!

As a tip buy a duplicate, as they get older it gets harder to fill the stockings without waking them. Far easier to just switch a full stocking for an empty one.

Thanks all, I'll have a browse now little one is asleep (on me)!
A couple of people have mentioned knitted stockings - any recommended suppliers?

I think these are gorgeous
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/dibor/product/nordic-knitted-christmas-stockings?referredBy=plp

Go onto Etsy Uk search Christmas stocking , lots of beautiful ones including some lovely knitted ones

Second vote for Matalan, I got some gorgeous, soft deep red ones for my DCs with their initial on a couple of years ago and they’re so nice. Lovely quality and even the fabric has little trees on.
I’d already forked out for some fancy ones from Etsy but honestly the matalan ones are so much nicer, good size too, you’ll easily get a book in.

100% get 2 of whatever you decide. I hand crocheted my dc's (thinking that was a brilliant idea)

2 years ago I started a thread titled 'being santa is the hardest thing you can be' in which I and many other parents sat and waited for our children to fall asleep on christmas eve. DD was 10 at the time. She slept for about an hour that night (in which I did the stocking) But I went in many other times and she wasn't asleep, said I was checking on her, may have given the game away...

Anyway check here for 'being santa is the hardest thing you can be 3 this xmas eve!'