Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Christmas Stocking
All children love Christmas stockings, but they are usually expensive, so why not make up your own Christmas gifts. Use an old sock for a pattern and cut the stocking out of coarse net. Dye the net red and sew up. Then you can fill it with sweets, nuts, fruit, story books, toy ships and cars, handkerchiefs – anything you think you friends might like. By making the stockings up yourself you will be sure to give your friends the gift they need.
Description source: Warwick Daily News, 3 December 1951
Image source: Queensland State Archives Item ID 1640296