Candle Sweaters

Well, Hello again!

Tonight I should have been  cleaning, wrapping, baking…just about anything other than crafting…but I couldn’t help myself!

I have been seeing these adorable candle sweaters, cozy’s, covers…whatever you want to call them….all over the place…and I had been wanting to make some for myself.

Have you seen them?

Source: bystephanielynn.com via April on Pinterest

Source: etsy.com via Becky on Pinterest

So between my trip to goodwill and the stack of stuff that I was going to take to Goodwill, I came up with a couple of sweaters and 3 glass containers that I thought would work.

 

 The jars 

I grabbed some trim, some buttons, bells, and even some jewelry from my jewelry box, along with other supplies like our friend the glue gun.

Along with a cup of hot cocoa

and off to work I went!  

I start chopping off sleeves

Got my jars covered...which worked fine except for 1 jar where the sleeve was big and baggy...I decided that it was just to sloppy and I ended up taking it in...which I really did not want to have to do...so in the future, I think I will use bigger glass containers!
Anyway I took it off, turned it inside out, hand stitched it...cut off the excess...then flipped it right side out again, and slid it back into place.

As you can see the bottom also needs to be stitched,
I just used a large gathering hand stitch, 
to pull it tight underneath the jar.

Now for the fun part...

Just use your imagination!

I used things that I had and came up with 3 adorable candles...
each one different...
they almost begin to take on their on little personalities!

Here they are...

Their so easy to make...
there are endless possibilities on shapes, and design...
Their inexpensive...
They can be out all winter...
and they are so stinkin cute!!!
Which one is your favorite?

Have a very Merry Christmas!!

Sharon 

Linking to... 

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