Make a long stitch with brown thread as a trunk and then use shorter stiches in green thread coming out from the trunk at an angle, starting at the top and working down to create fir tree branches. Draw your design idea out with fabric pen or chalk first and then use an embroidery hoop to help stabilise the fabric before you get to stitching.Ĭreating a mini repeating Christmas tree design is simple and fun to try. You could add lots of little snowflakes all over a jumper or even recreate a traditional Nordic-style pattern. If you're not a fan of bright spangly designs on Christmas jumpers, embroidery is just the thing to create something a bit more understated.Ī simple running stitch is all you need to know to create most patterns. Phrases like 'Let It Snow', 'Merry Christmas' or 'Season's Greetings' work well and can be embelished with mini pompoms or sequins to really make them stand out. Once the glue has dried you can go along and make small whip stitches with a needle and thread to make sure the wool is held securely. Write your phrase out onto your jumper with a washable fabric pen or fabric chalk, dot some fabric glue in regular intervals along your line and then apply your yarn to recreate the lines of the letters. Write with wool A fun festive slogan never goes amiss on a Christmas jumper! Make pompoms in a variety of colours and attach them to a green jumper with fabric glue in a random pattern to look like baubles on a Christmas tree. Place some pompoms Pompoms are so easy to make and can be used for all sorts of fun designs. Left over yarn and wool are super handy for decorating a DIY Christmas jumper in a few different ways We've compiled a list of some of the best and easiest ways to customise a Christmas jumper using items you're likely to have lying around in your craft stash. You could let the kids loose creating their own designs for Christmas Jumper Day at school (which falls on Thursday 7th December this year) and just help them with the fiddly bits such as sticking items on. If you're designing DIY Christmas jumpers for the whole family you could stick to one particular theme or even make a design that goes across a few jumpers which would make for a brilliant photo. Upcycling an old plain jumper into a Christmas jumper is the perfect way to get in some festive crafting while also being a budget-friendly craft project. If you're a knitter, check out our Christmas jumper knitting pattern.īut if you want a quick and easy Christmas jumper, you can easily create a custom design using bits and pieces you already have in your craft stash. There's no need to spend out loads on a brand new Christmas jumper each year, it's easy (and fun!) to make your own. The festive season is fast approaching and with it comes advent calendars, sparkling decorations, late-night shopping and the good old December wardrobe staple – the Christmas jumper.Įveryone loves a Christmas jumper but buying a new one each year can get costly, especially if you're kitting out the whole family, luckily we've got a crafty solution!
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