Christmas Cards - Jumper

  • Stephen Furness
The Christmas Card project is an ongoing exercise to find a creative way to send seasonal greetings. It is an opportunity to try out alternative creative methods to those I'm more familiar with. With a renaissance over the last couple of years of the kitsch Christmas jumper it seemed like a suitable selection for a card. This item of clothing, often lovingly knitted by a well meaning grandparent is the embodiment of the Christmas spirit. Crafted with love but not necessarily a lot of taste or skill, the time and effort contained within the jumper makes it a very personal gift. By creating my own set of Christmas jumpers I was able to embed my own take on this tradition. To add my own time and effort, digitally weaving patterns and objects that reflected my own sense of the season and embraced those that my friends and family also enjoy.