Hi! I had the exact same thing happen to me. My stocking was store bought, but is a wool material and was my favorite stocking! It even has a beautiful white snowflake on top of the green socking. I was so upset when the wax dripped stright down the center! This is what I did: I picked off as much as I could without ruining the stocking but the part on the snowflake was really difficult. I did some online research and asked a few people and everyone said to do the iron and paper bag trick. Get a plain paper bag (i took a stop and shop grocery one) and ripped it up because of its size. Set your iron to a steam setting. place the paper bag over the stocking and hold the iron directly above the stocking. In seconds it was working! You will see the wax soaking into the paper bag. I even pressed down a bit and continuously moved the iron around. It takes a little bit of time to get it to come out REALLY nicely, however, it definately works. I am going to try once again to see if the red "stain" will get out of the white snowflake, but I think if I just keep using the steam it will. I hope that this helps you! It definately did for me! Good Luck :0)