Among the many things Jared and I purchased last year for our first official Christmas at home together were these cute little felt stockings from Joann's. Having always had personalized stockings growing up, the white stitching on the front of the stocking begged for matching embroidered names on the cuffs. I've been fascinated by Jenny Hart's amazing embroidery ever since Sublime Stitching, and couldn't wait to get started on my first project. I experimented with a few different ways to get the outline of our names onto the stockings and found the easiest was to do the following:

Use WordArt in Microsoft Word or Illustrator to type out the names in an outlined font. Be sure to type the names from last letter to first so they read left to right when you transfer them to your project. Lastly, view the names at 100% to make sure they'll be the right size.
Print out the names on regular computer paper. Place a sheet of tracing paper over your print out and trace the outlines using a transfer pencil. Make sure you use a pencil color that will be easily hidden underneath your stitches. I used a white transfer pencil and it worked great.
Transfer the names to your project using a dry iron. If your project is oddly shaped and won't lay flat, it's helpful to pin the tracing paper down before ironing.

I used white embroidery floss and split-stitch around each of the letters. Here's how they turned out: