Goddess Jasmine wrote:
That looks great, did you use fabric from the jumper to make the hat too?
No, I made the hat last year to replace the hat that I made the year before that seemed to go missing but then magically reappeared this morning. Both are completely made of IKEA blankets and a couple of fake snowballs that we used for indoor snowball fights during lockdown.
This jumper is just another iteration of one I made before in 2020. At the time Bean had just started reception school and had been in and out of lockdown since term began. Because of this it was pure chaos and the school sprung Christmas Jumper Day on us with no warning, and as shopping was very limited, as well as having no time to do it, I cobbled a jumper and hat out of what I had around the house.
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I used a new brand of white heat transfer vinyl, and it was terrible. The 'buttons' just came off in the wash, so last year he wore that original jumper from 2020 with a hat I made to replace the original, but I added new buttons. Big, big buttons. Probably too big:
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So this year I knew that the original jumper wouldn't fit anymore, so I made a new one. I had a bit more time to get the things that I needed, so could add real buttons this year. I used bits of the same white blanket and just had a bit more time to plan, though making it was quicker, if anything, simply as I have space to have the sewing machine set up now.
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