European Ornamental Holiday Stocking

Hot pink with a black pinwheel bloom, loud enough to hear from across the room.

This is an ornamental holiday stocking in suzani fabric. Reusing a textile in a smaller form is a long-standing craft practice, and a stocking shows off a section of the cloth's pattern. A small stocking in vivid pink, with a large black flower of radiating petals appliqued across the front. Black spiky motifs run around the toe and edges. A black patterned braid frames the cuff, and a cream cord forms the loop. It is 4 inches wide and 6 long.

Subtlety was not invited, and nobody missed it.