Ugly Christmas Sweater

The manager at work decided that we should all wear ugly Christmas sweaters for our sale.  She wanted to get a group picture of us and put it on the company's Face book page to thank all of our customers.

I do not own an ugly Christmas sweater.  I don't even own a pretty Christmas sweater.   In fact, I don't have any Christmas sweaters.  I was not about to purchase one to wear for one day.  I can think of better things to do with my money.   I could not find one at the thrift stores (ugly Christmas sweater parties are pretty popular these days).  So, I decided to make my own version of an ugly Christmas sweater.

I did say this is a scary journey, didn't I?

Me wearing my ugly Christmas sweater

First step.  Purchase a sweater.  I found mine at the thrift store.  Turns out it was the half price color that day, so I paid a whopping $1.50.  (SCORE!)  Next, after you wash and dry it, find some Christmassy (I'm sure that's a word) items to sew onto your sweater.  I decided to go with garland and bows.  Other choices:  ornaments, lights, pom poms, sequins or buttons.  You can make a Santa, snowman, Christmas tree or reindeer using felt and sew that on.  Use your imagination.

I had fun making my sweater.  RT got a kick out of it.  I 'm thinking I should make him a matching sweater so we can be twins.