How to make a Cracking Christmas Jumper!
Yep its that time of year to bring out those wonderfully cheesy Christmas jumpers.
Perhaps you have one knitted especially for you each year by your great aunt or gran, or maybe you have them donated to you by an older sibling or cousin, or if you are unlucky (or just too cool) you simply don't have one then joy of joys for this mini tutorial will have you wearing your own classic christmas jumper in no time at all!
STEP ONE:
Find your local charity shop preferably not an upmarket one and hunt for a cheap and bright woolly jumper- cable knit would be lovely!
STEP TWO:
Presuming you've washed your wooly find (on a woolen wash cycle) and allowed it to dry, dig out some scraps of fabric - felt, patterned cotton are ideal.
Choose a classic festive icon:
- snowman
- snowflake
- christmas tree
- christmas pudding
- reindeer
- christmas cracker
- christmas present
Then using the different fabrics choose which ones you want to allocate to each part of the design.
For my jumper I made a christmas pudding with just three different fabrics- the simpler the better!
STEP THREE:
Cut out the design and lay up on the jumper pining it as you go. Once you're happy pop on to your sewing machine and zig-zag stitch around the edges of the fabric straight onto the jumper.
STEP FOUR:
You're almost done- add any other hand-sewn elements such as felt balls/sequins/etc for noses or berries.
Snip all the loose ends and tidy up and there you have it - a fantastically cheesy Christmas Jumper!
If you did manage to get round to doing one I would love to see yours!
Merry Christmas!
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Festive Twitter Backgrounds
Had some fun doing some festive repeat patterns - great for twitter backgrounds - catch them while you can, they'll be gone come January! If you have any I would love to see-pop a link in the comments below. Cheers!
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Liebster Blog Award # 2
The lovely Rebecca from Littletree Designs gave me a Liebster Blog Award recently - its my second time I've received this (Georgia Coote gave me my first back in April) which is exciting as I get to share some more blogs that I love reading and being inspired by-so without further ado...
- http://lizzlizz.blogspot.com/ - I've been following Liz on her zine comic travels via cyberspace for a while now and love her cartoons and captions! Recently visited HereandNow shop in Falmouth and was pleasantly surprised to see a splendid array of her zines & comics on sale!
- http://robinandmould.blogspot.com/ - delicious screen-printed decorations and cushions - hmm textile treats!
- http://blog.bryonycrane.me.uk/ -blog displaying Bryony's lovely studio and portfolio illustration work- and updates to her etsy shop
- http://annarack.blogspot.com/ - updated frequently Anna writes about art, vintage finds and regular mail-art projects she takes part in- a little treasure trove of goodies!
- http://www.origamichicken.com - curated by Joanna Hawker, illustrator, she blogs regularly about other artists work (and a few of her own pieces) - great for inspiration and creativity.
On accepting this award you're job is to:
- write a blog post on receiving this award and add the Liebster picture
- link back to the person who gave it to you
- pick 3-5 of your favourite blogs to share and present this award to
There you have it- I hope you'll enjoy discovering more creative blogs to read!
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On the 4th day...
Just a quick post to show you what I've working on lately- @minirice_uk aka Elaine Tang asked me recently to get involved with a 12 days of Christmas illustration project. Here is my day - the fourth- four calling birds. I would love to illustrate the whole lot - but maybe that's for a future project! I'll let you know when everyone else has finished their illustrations- I'm sure it's going to look great together.
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