Thursday 12 December 2013

Little Sweaters

I've been making some Christmas tree decorations, as you know, and I think these little sweaters are cute!  However, I didn't like the method given for hanging them on the tree, as it looked very amateur-ish.  I'd seen on a very similar pattern, the use of wire to form a mini coat hanger, so I changed to that method.

I bought the wire in the form of a pack of ornament hangers...

ornament hangers


I twisted two wires together to form the hanger and left the ends sticking out to support the shoulders of the sweater...

sweater coat hanger

...then covered the 'shoulders' of the hanger with florists tape so they wouldn't catch in the sweater...

sweater coat hanger bound

I'm not very good at getting the hooky part of the hanger very round, but I'm guessing that after a few hangings on the tree they will need a bit of re-shaping anyway.

Tree sweaters

4 comments:

Babajeza said...

Veryy sweet. Great idea with the coat hangers. I should try and make some tiny sweaters too. :-)

Annie said...

Wow those are simply gorgeous. Try wrapping the wire round a pencil or something to get it round.
Hugs,
Annie x

Elizabethd said...

They are enchanting!

Sharon said...

These are very cute Penny, I just commented on Facebook but will add here, you really need to have a tiny little BJD so that these little jumpers can be worn after the Christmas tree has been put away! They're just too sweet to be hidden and not worn!!!
Big hugs Sharon in Spain xxx