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Nothing screams “It’s the holidays!” like wearing a hilarious, ill-fitting, ugly sweater with the person you love! And this holiday season, we need all the silly fun we can get. Thankfully, there are some amazing ugly Christmas sweaters for couples to wear, and even make, together. We’ve got some fun ideas to make your own ugly sweater and links to to buy the most unique ugly sweaters that also help support small businesses.
DIY ugly sweaters for Christmas, couples edition
Since we have a lot of time on our hands right now, it might fun to make your own ugly sweater and make it a date day. Lynn Lilly, the founder of Craft Box Girls, suggests using items you already have on hand to make your sweater. And you might need to — it’s difficult right now to find crafting supplies because the pandemic has disrupted supply chains to stores like Michaels. Lilly suggests being creative and using old material, cotton balls, ribbon and even stuffing from a pillow to make your creations.
1. DIY Christmas Present Ugly Sweater
Lilly came up with this idea for a Christmas present ugly sweatshirt (she doesn’t like sweaters) that she made with leftover wrapping paper and bows. She made the heart shaped one for her and suggested for the second sweater to use a square piece of felt for a box-shaped gift for your significant other. “You can take it to whatever level you want. If it’s me I’m a little extra and my husband is more reserved,” she said. She also made a really fun Yeti sweatshirt that can be made for two.
2. Dash and Lily Christmas Tree Ugly Sweater
If you watched Dash and Lily, the adorable and implausible (where IS everyone’s parents, who has a rager on Christmas Eve?) Netflix series, you may want to recreate Lily’s glue gunned Christmas tree sweater dress. Here is a tutorial for how to make a similar one. Want to make it a couples project? Make this Dash (as in Dasher) reindeer ugly sweater that uses a cutout reindeer and fabric paint (or wear a Dash-inspired expensive-looking cable knit sweater like this one).
3. Mr. and Mrs. Ugly Christmas Sweatshirt
Making this Christmas sweater from Creative Fashion Blog is sure to bring you closer to your significant other. It’s so colorful and fun and has the added bonus of looking pretty easy to make. There’s no sewing — just cutting and gluing!
Themed ugly Christmas sweaters for couples that are perfect for 2020
It’s been a tough year that many of us would like to forget, but if you’d like to commemorate this time in clothing, here are some fun ideas for Covid-inspired ugly sweaters.
4. “Oh Quaran-Tree” Christmas sweater
Makers Gonna Learn has this amazing video tutorial on how to put together a DIY Ugly “Oh Quaran-Tree” Christmas sweater that you could make in different colors for couples sweaters. The video is very detailed, but you could simplify it by using paper or old fabric.
5. Covid 2020 Sweater
BridesFlock on Etsy has an adorable couples pandemic sweatshirt for $20 each! They capture everything you need including horded toilet paper, masks and the covid virus disco ball.
Fun ugly sweater ideas for couples
Ugly Sweaters should be hilarious and these ones are definitely that. Who doesn’t want a sweater/drinking game?
6. Interactive Ugly Christmas Sweater
Tipsy Elves (as seen on Shark Tank) have some really fun Christmas sweaters including The Office themed sweater that says “Nice Package” and Michael Scott saying, “That’s what she said.” I think we can agree that that line always works. For a couples’ themed sweater the “You Miss You Drink” interactive drinking game sweater is available for men and women and comes with 6 velcro balls to throw at the bullseye.
7. Han Solo and Princess Leia Ugly Christmas Sweater
If you and your special someone love Star Wars and sarcasm, this is Han Solo and Princess Leis sweater set for you! It’s bold, it’s really red and it has Princess Leia saying, “I Love You” and Han Solo saying, “I know.”
8. Naughty Ugly Christmas Sweater
It’s not officially the holidays until someone does something inappropriate. You and your partner can be those people with this amazing sweater for couples. You can also DIY this one using felt and some strategically placed bells.
