You can use any square piece of paper. If you want to, you can click on one of these patterns and print an eight inch square.

1. Fold down the stocking's cuff.	2. Fold in half, crease, then unfold. Fold both sides in to the crease. It will look like this, but flat. 3. Fold up the bottom corners so it looks like this.
4. Fold up the bottom tip to meet the flaps... ...like this.		...so it looks like this. 5. Fold it in half...
6. Fold some down to make a pleat.	7. Fold in half.	TA DA!

I learned to make this from a little book called Ornagami: An Original Christmas at Your Fingertips by Gay Merrill Gross.
My sister gave it to me: she's given me many of my favorite gifts. I've spent every Christmas of my life with her,
except one or two when I was living in Hawaii. Now I can't imagine Christmas without her.