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DIY Homemade Ugly Christmas Sweater

A DIY homemade ugly Christmas sweater is a must! Make your own ugly Christmas sweater and have fun! A tacky Christmas sweater is easy and you can be creative. Learn how to decorate a sweater for a Christmas party using felt cut with scissors or Cricut.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time2 hours
Total Time2 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 1 sweater
Author: Bella Bucchiotti

Ingredients

Supplies / Materials: 

  • Knit or fleece sweater in your size 
  • Felt (I used 100% Polyester in these colours from Michael’s) Kelly Green 9”x12” 8 sheets,  Pirate 9”x12” 3 sheets , Apple Green 9”x12” 3 sheets 
  • ⅜ inch white pom poms
  • 8 Red Bows 
  • Transfer tape (optional)
  • Wax Paper (optional) 
  • Aleene's Fabric Fusion Permanent Fabric Adhesive 
  • Mistletoe SVG / PDF download at the bottom of the post 
  • Piece of cardboard 
  • Paper scissors sharp fabric scissors  
  • Cricut Maker  (optional)
  • Rotary Blade 
  • Standard Grip Mat

Instructions

Numbered Instructions: Sweater 

  • Prewash your sweater according to the label’s directions. 
  • Download the SVG or PDF template.  

For scissors (PDF):  

  • Print out the PDF and using your paper scissors, cut along the pattern lines. 
  • Lay the biggest leaf onto the kelly green felt and using the sharp fabric scissors, cut out the leaves 8 times. 
  • Lay the medium leaf onto the pirate green and cut out the leaves 8 times. 
  • Lay the smallest leaf onto the apple green and cut out the leaves 8 times.  

For the Cricut Maker:

  • Upload the SVG file into Cricut Design Space. 
  • Click the “Make It” button. 
  • Under “Project Copies”, increase to 8 and click “Apply.” 
  • Depending on your felt sheet size, select the proper material size. We used 9”x12”. 
  • For material click “Browse” and search for “Felt.” 
  • Click “Edit Tools” and select “Rotary Blade.” 

Sweater Construction: 

  • Take your cut felt pieces and using the fabric glue, glue  the three different sizes together. Acting like a little bushel. From largest to smallest. 
  • Place the bushels around the sweater filling it up (or using less! It’s up to you!) 
  • Insert cardboard in between the sweater’s front and back (so it won’t leak fabric glue to the other side.) 
  • Glue your leaves to the sweater. 
  • Add pom poms as the berries to the leaves by gluing them as well.  
  • Let dry for as long as the glue’s instructions state.  
  • Party in your new sweater! 

Notes

Preparing your Cricut Mat: 
We decided not to use the fabric mat and use the standard mat instead. Because of the type of felt and with the type of cut, it leaves a fuzzy mark behind and eventually causes the cut not to work properly. This is where transfer tape helps! Place the same size piece of transfer paper on the back of the felt (sticky side onto the felt) and then place the backing onto the cutting mat (felt now facing up.) 
You can use an old mat if you don’t mind gunking it up (don’t use a new one!!) And just scrape off the fuzziness after a few cuts.  
 

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