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You can buy a Christmas jumper, or you can make one, and there is a certain smugness available to the second group that money simply cannot purchase. A homemade Christmas jumper also dodges the one real problem with the shop-bought sort: everybody else at the party has seen it before.
Most DIY festive knits start with a plain charity-shop jumper and some glue. Bauble jumpers, where you sew or glue actual decorations to the front. The three-dimensional reindeer with a pom-pom nose. The tinsel-trimmed collar. The genuinely inspired snow globe jumper with a jar on the front. None of it requires you to be able to knit, which is the thing that puts people off before they start.
We have gathered the best ideas we have found, from the achievable-in-an-evening to the frankly ambitious. Two things worth knowing before you begin: glue a bauble to a jumper and that jumper is never going in a washing machine again, and whatever you attach to the front will catch on every door handle you pass. Both are a fair price for being the only person in the room wearing something nobody can buy.
