The Not-So Ugly Christmas Sweater!

Finally! An Ugly Christmas Sweater you can customize to your liking!  Make this sweater your own by adding elements that fit you and your personality.

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So, grab your favorite stencils and let’s get started!

Things you will need: A plain pullover sweatshirt, white fabric paint, paint brushes, your favorite Stencil1 stencils, and Stencil1 Small Pattern stencils.

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Step 1. Gather your materials. Make sure you have a piece of cardboard placed inside your sweatshirt before you start stenciling so that paint doesn’t transfer to the other side of the sweatshirt. The sweatshirt we are using is H&M‘s Cotton Sweatshirt in red.

Place your stencil on your desired location. Here, we started off with the Stripes Repeat Pattern stencil. (Tip: Place a long strip of masking tape across the width of your sweatshirt as a guide to align your stencils in a straight line.)

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Step 2. Grab your paint and your paint brush. Dip the brush in the paint without any water. Make sure you dab the excess paint off the brush on a tissue or plate to prevent any bleeding underneath the stencil and start painting away! You may need to add an extra layer of paint in order to make it more opaque.

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Step 3. Once you’re done painting, move the stencil along the width of your sweatshirt and continue painting.

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Step 4. Once you are done with your first line, grab your next stencil. Here we used the Snowy Pine Tree stencil from the Winter Holiday 4-Pack. Using the same dry painting method in the previous step, paint over the stencil.

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Step 5. Continue to move the stencil make the design repetitious all across the sweater.

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Step 6. Grab another stencil of your choice. To fill up the gaps between the Snowy Pine Trees, we used the small snowflake from the Snowflakes stencil, also from the Winter Holiday 4-Pack.

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Step 7. Continue to paint the sweatshirt alternating between different designs and different patterns. Here, we used the Moroccan Repeat Pattern stencil.

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Try adding animals and some text! The Industrial Stencil font stencil is perfect to help get your message across this holiday season. We also used the Antlered Deer stencil from the Winter Holiday 4-Pack.

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More patterns! Here, we used the Diamond Repeat Pattern stencil.

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Finally, we finished off the sweatshirt using the Chevron Repeat Pattern stencil.

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And that’s it! Feel free to mix up the designs and patterns to make it your very own Ugly Christmas Sweater.

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Be sure to take pictures at your holiday parties and share it with us @Stencil1!

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