Christmas Stockings

I have been working on new Christmas Stockings for my family of 6 for about one month now. I saw some in the Pottery Barn catalog that looked really nice but they were $30 each and I didn't have $180 that I wanted to spend on 6 new stockings.  So instead, I dug through my boxes of accumulated fabrics and found some green corduroy and a funky red print fabric for a lining and some really thin polyester batting to make up the 'sock' part of the stocking and some cream colored fabric for the cuff and even a bit of trim to make a hanging loop.  I quilted the stockings with a diamond pattern using the walking foot on my sewing machine and by the time I was finished quilting the fronts and back for 6 stockings (6 fronts and 6 backs) my walking foot was behaving very strangely so I think I will have to take it apart and investigate later.  Then I sewed on little white seed beads where each line of machine quilting intersected and tonight I sewed them all together.  I started on cuffs today as well and I have finally completed ONE WHOLE STOCKING - HooRaY!!  I did Sarah's first because I like the way the "S" was designed and I am quite happy with the result.  I won't be able to finish the rest of them this week though because I am sick of my green wall and I am going to paint our "Great Room" (family room, dining room, kitchen) a warm taupe color called "Desert Home" and I am going to paint the ceiling white and the trim needs another coat of white paint too after 5 years of living with 4 children, their friends, and large numbers of cousins who live within 2 miles of our home.  I'll get back to the stockings next week.  I want to have them all finished before Thanksgiving since we usually do our Christmas decorating the day after Thanksgiving.