I love it it will match your shirt. And yes don't put too much pressure on yourself for Christmas ❤ I think the stores have a lot to do with it. If you don't need it, don't buy it. You'll feel better in long run cause Christmas is over in a flash🎉 Example, if you can't afford fancy decorations just enjoy everyone else's. There's lots to look at this time of year. 😊
Great job, Ant! And you gave the Christmas lights a good try! If you want to give them another go, just make the shapes a lot narrower and just as long and it should work. You can also stuff it lightly. With stuffing, less is more. Then you can fluff them into shape by squeezing and rolling them around. I believe in you! Go for it!
Oh wow, you made a Christmas plum cushion, how cool. Put a few green ribbons on the top and call it done :) Absolutely loved your box tree, and your rhinestone baubles - they looked incredible. Have a fun time at your work party and rock that headband - catch you next week :)
I've been binge-watching your channel the past few days, I can't believe you don't have more subscribers! Totally underrated. Great job with this round of crafts! The light pillow kind of looked like a blueberry. Close enough?
My work Christmas Office party is called “Booze and Tarts”. A great name for your event is key. We put the 🥃booze out and buy assortment of appetizers and 🥧tarts. Really low key, but not much work gets done. In the spring, we hold a Monty Python themed tea party. We serve tea and sandwiches and sing the 🪓Lumberjack song.
Your ANTics (see what I did there) caused me to do a sort of sudden jerky laugh that caused my cat to leap off my lap. Thank you. Now I can actually get up and go to the bathroom.
Great job on the crafts. They all turned out well except that Christmas light cushion. You looked so profesh and everything cutting out fabric and sewing it all. Such a bummer! But yeah, if you had the right pattern you would have totally rocked that one! The headband looked so festive. Such a shame you got sick and couldn't wear it to the Christmas party. I'm sure that party just wasn't the same without you! I hope you are feeling better and those germs better steer clear of you. No more illness allowed this year!! 🤣😆
Everyone has suffered with the flu! I work in the community with dementia patients and I caught it, knocked me for about 3 weeks 🤦♀️ also I attended my husbands xmas work party and one of the barmen was your doppelganger! I genrally thought he was you when I first saw him! He was so easy going and a great laugh! 😅 he made me my favourite cocktail too, cherry bakewell 🤤❤
The poor pillow 😭 it's basically what happens every time I try a sewing project 😂 The headband though 😍 I'm really not a Christmassy person either. It's a weird time of year 😕
Loved this video! And I’m glad you show us the stuff that doesn’t work as well as the stuff that does. You’re a joy Ant! I’ve just finished making my last Christmas gift (I’m a skint human who crochets, so everyone gets shit crochet gifts they don’t actually want!) and I’m ready for the onslaught of next week. We loves ya!
That was wonderful - without a doubt the cheeriest 20 minutes of this entire Christmas season for me, so thank you!!! I actually spit out my tea at the suggestion of some folks making homophobic Christmas baubles 🤣🎄I’m so sorry the sewing project didn’t work - you had the right idea! I will say, though, that you could pull that blue “light” out next October and make some scary blue jack-o-lantern Halloween demon plush with it 🎃 😈 You will be the hit of the work party with your headpiece that matches your shirt perfectly. Have fun!!
Ah glad you enjoyed it! 😁😁 Haha! Well I guarantee some sad people do! 🤣🤣 Oh I didn't get to go to my party in the end, happened when I had flu so I was too busy dying in bed! 🤒😭🤒😭🤒
i feel the same way about christmas ant, its not only you! u can put some button eyes and embroider a little mouth on the blue plushy thing to turn that into a cuddly little guy :D loved the headband, it looked super cute on you
Hey Ant, thanks for a super Christmassy edition of the BPC!! 🎄🎄 Some great results, especially the stacks of presents and the cutesy headband!Maybe you could turn the 'Christmas light' into a cuddly piece of fruit?? 🤣🤣
annnt!!! you tried so hard on the fairy lights, i’m so sorry it didn’t work out. i think if you made the patterns longer and skinnier it might have created a shape that is closer to the original. your videos make me so happy and this was exactly what i needed to end my week! thanks a bunch ❤
Great Christmas video Ant!! I love the headband. Sorry you didn't make it to the Christmas party. Hope you get to feeling better soon!! Hope you have a great weekend!!! And a Merry Christmas!!!
Oh Ant, your cushion looked like a Kardashian butt lol. It was a great effort tho, and your sewing has come on leaps and bounds, and for that shaped cushion, you need a single foam piece as the filling. Using a pattern was really smart too, like I said, your skills in sewing are getting better, and better. I liked your bedazzled ball, it came out looking really cool. My favourite thing you did tho was that stack of presents, that came out so well! I think I might try that myself, thanks for the idea. Have a great Xmas Ant, and don't let the commercialism spoil the days for you.
Honestly, nah, the pillow looks cute, just more chunky and peachy. Because of how some fabrics stretch (which is my first guess as to why its so wide/thick) narrower pieces would have given a slimmer result, probably. Personally if I were to have such a pillow gifted to me/I choose one to buy I would have preferred the chunky peachy one, just looks more comfy
Fun projects! Are you doing a New Year's special? (Just curious, no pressure.) Hope you are feeling better and Merry Christmas to you and all of your pups!
What happens if you just sew 3 or 4 portions together per pillow instead of 5? You might find it looks elongated! Since you already have the pieces cut, could clip them together to see.
Wax pen for the rhinestones. I did something similar with sequins and I couldn't find my wax pen. ( from a diamond paint kit) so I gave up. Same as you it took ages I wet a toothpick and picked them up with the flat end .Then I found my wax pen so I may finish it.
Your sewing projects won't ever be that great because you haven't got any stickers or anything personalizing it! Deck the machine, my friend, and you will see immediate improvement in your crafts and you'll want to use it more often too! ❤
ALL I can think about is how I would decorate a h0M0ph0bic christmas tree..... I had to pause the video for a second to seriously consider this and I'm still not sure... this is going to plague me for days now, and anything I can think of I dont want to get comment banned. Thanks for making this my mindwandering thought for the next few days. All I REALLY want to do now is ask everyone at church what they would put on one... and I just might, it will make the day truly more interesting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Merry 🎄 Christmas (even if you arent a huge fan)
I really hope you retry those pillows. I think that you needed to make the pattern more narrow to achieve the bulb shape. Try it out on paper first - cut what you think the pattern should look like and glue it together and see if it gets the shape you want. Making your own patterns is a trial and error process, ya know? Anywho... I admitted to my husband (and online) that I HATE the show Frosty the Snowman. I couldn't figure out WHY. Just knew that seeing clips of it, etc just bubbled up this anger in me. Sat and thought about it a long time and it came down to it just being forced cheerfulness. I can't stand the "it's Christmas so you MUST be happy and cheerful!" bullshit. LOL I grew up very poor, single mother wth 2 kids and a deadbeat dad who didn't send child support but every once in a blue moon. When I turned 18 he still owed my mom 10k in child support and medical bills! So yeah, Christmas is a mixed bag for me. I love showering my husband in gifts. Sometimes I enjoy visiting the in-laws but I'd be just as happy staying at home, just hubby, me and the 3 cat nipped-high cats.
Hey there! I think the hypothesis of the narrower pattern will work. Also, maybe using only 2 instead of 4. Let's just not give up on that just yet. 😄😄😄 Anyway, I can’t wait for the video tomorrow!!! Big hugs
I didn't end up attending my Christmas party due to dying from flu (flu storytime coming in the new year 😅😅)
Ooohhh a gripping flu story - hope Kathy wasn't involved 😂
@Mark-nh2hs Haha! And nope not at all, just regular hospital germs 😆😆
@@AnthonyCrammen oh I know them well being a Nurse myself 🤣
@Mark-nh2hs Oh everyone is riddled at the moment, never seen anything like it in my life! 😅😅
@@AnthonyCrammen wow that's bad. Hope you are fully recovered. Thankfully I've avoided it so far - touch wood.
I love it it will match your shirt. And yes don't put too much pressure on yourself for Christmas ❤ I think the stores have a lot to do with it. If you don't need it, don't buy it. You'll feel better in long run cause Christmas is over in a flash🎉 Example, if you can't afford fancy decorations just enjoy everyone else's. There's lots to look at this time of year. 😊
Great job, Ant! And you gave the Christmas lights a good try! If you want to give them another go, just make the shapes a lot narrower and just as long and it should work. You can also stuff it lightly. With stuffing, less is more. Then you can fluff them into shape by squeezing and rolling them around. I believe in you! Go for it!
I love the headband! I also rhinestone things. It's therapeutic for me. Yes, more Christmas content next year, please.
Headband is FAB!!
Oh wow, you made a Christmas plum cushion, how cool. Put a few green ribbons on the top and call it done :) Absolutely loved your box tree, and your rhinestone baubles - they looked incredible. Have a fun time at your work party and rock that headband - catch you next week :)
Ah haha thanks! 😆😆 See ya next week for more craftyness! 😁😁
I was thinking the same! A Christmas plum :)
I've been binge-watching your channel the past few days, I can't believe you don't have more subscribers! Totally underrated. Great job with this round of crafts! The light pillow kind of looked like a blueberry. Close enough?
Ah thank you! And welcome to the channel! 😊😊 Haha yeah it could definitely be a blueberry! 😅😅
Screw the pillows, the headband is fab and so is the bobble! Feel better soon Ant.
Ah thank you! 😊😊
I feel like you do about christmas and your advice/words about it helped ❤ Get well soon!!
No one makes me laugh like you do!🤣 Never ever change❤
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My work Christmas Office party is called “Booze and Tarts”. A great name for your event is key. We put the 🥃booze out and buy assortment of appetizers and 🥧tarts. Really low key, but not much work gets done. In the spring, we hold a Monty Python themed tea party. We serve tea and sandwiches and sing the 🪓Lumberjack song.
My mind went elsewhere with the office party name 😂
You did a great job on all of the you're getting better sewing. Feel better. My Kathy tote bag came I LOVE IT.
Ah thanks Alexis! 😊😊 Oh that's fab! Glad it came in time for Christmas and so happy you love it! 🥰🥰
Your ANTics (see what I did there) caused me to do a sort of sudden jerky laugh that caused my cat to leap off my lap. Thank you. Now I can actually get up and go to the bathroom.
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Great job on the crafts. They all turned out well except that Christmas light cushion. You looked so profesh and everything cutting out fabric and sewing it all. Such a bummer! But yeah, if you had the right pattern you would have totally rocked that one! The headband looked so festive. Such a shame you got sick and couldn't wear it to the Christmas party. I'm sure that party just wasn't the same without you! I hope you are feeling better and those germs better steer clear of you. No more illness allowed this year!! 🤣😆
Ah thanks! Oh I know! I've been so poorly the past week or so, I'm getting better but still not quite right, I'll get there though! 😅😅
The rhinestone s can be purchased on strips for future reference ! Love the bauble! Merry Christmas Ant xxx
Oh good idea! Merry Christmas! 🎅🎅
Blueberry pillow for the Summer❤😂
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I. Love. You!!! ❤❤❤🎄 Merry Christmas honey!!!🎄
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄
Admire your patience for glueing that ball with rhinestones. I’d have finished one row and taken a coffee break and never returned to it.😅
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Everyone has suffered with the flu! I work in the community with dementia patients and I caught it, knocked me for about 3 weeks 🤦♀️ also I attended my husbands xmas work party and one of the barmen was your doppelganger! I genrally thought he was you when I first saw him! He was so easy going and a great laugh! 😅 he made me my favourite cocktail too, cherry bakewell 🤤❤
Oh it might of been me 👀👀 I'm joking it wasn't 😅😅
The poor pillow 😭 it's basically what happens every time I try a sewing project 😂
The headband though 😍
I'm really not a Christmassy person either. It's a weird time of year 😕
Yeah it was a bit of a mess! 😅😅 And yeah same, think it's over rated!
Loved this video! And I’m glad you show us the stuff that doesn’t work as well as the stuff that does. You’re a joy Ant! I’ve just finished making my last Christmas gift (I’m a skint human who crochets, so everyone gets shit crochet gifts they don’t actually want!) and I’m ready for the onslaught of next week. We loves ya!
Ah thanks! Oh handmade gifts are way better than paid things. It takes time and energy to make something, I'm sure they'll love them! 😁😁
That was wonderful - without a doubt the cheeriest 20 minutes of this entire Christmas season for me, so thank you!!! I actually spit out my tea at the suggestion of some folks making homophobic Christmas baubles 🤣🎄I’m so sorry the sewing project didn’t work - you had the right idea! I will say, though, that you could pull that blue “light” out next October and make some scary blue jack-o-lantern Halloween demon plush with it 🎃 😈
You will be the hit of the work party with your headpiece that matches your shirt perfectly. Have fun!!
Ah glad you enjoyed it! 😁😁 Haha! Well I guarantee some sad people do! 🤣🤣 Oh I didn't get to go to my party in the end, happened when I had flu so I was too busy dying in bed! 🤒😭🤒😭🤒
@@AnthonyCrammenyeah, I just saw your comment about the flu vs the party ☹️ well, all your co-workers really missed out on that treat!
@Luxinda Oh I know! They missed drunken Ant! 😅😅
i feel the same way about christmas ant, its not only you! u can put some button eyes and embroider a little mouth on the blue plushy thing to turn that into a cuddly little guy :D loved the headband, it looked super cute on you
Oh that's a good idea! 😅😅
Hey Ant, thanks for a super Christmassy edition of the BPC!! 🎄🎄 Some great results, especially the stacks of presents and the cutesy headband!Maybe you could turn the 'Christmas light' into a cuddly piece of fruit?? 🤣🤣
Ah no problem! 😁😁 Haha yeah I suppose I could, it's definitely not going to pass as a Christmas light 😆😆
@@AnthonyCrammen At least you gave it a good try 😁 Hope your weekend is going well and you're feeling a bit better after that horrible flu! 😊😊
@kingmerry10 It is indeed! Hope you're having a fab weekend too! 😊😊
annnt!!! you tried so hard on the fairy lights, i’m so sorry it didn’t work out. i think if you made the patterns longer and skinnier it might have created a shape that is closer to the original. your videos make me so happy and this was exactly what i needed to end my week! thanks a bunch ❤
Similar to Cinderella but with the bulb cushions tuning back into pumpkins. Sorry to hear your candy canes never got an outing at the Christmas Party.
Haha! 😆😆 Oh I know! I might wear it to work on Christmas instead 😅😅
Hi Anthony! I really like your Christmas head band the best. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Ah thanks Marilyn! Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄🎅
Great Christmas video Ant!! I love the headband. Sorry you didn't make it to the Christmas party. Hope you get to feeling better soon!! Hope you have a great weekend!!! And a Merry Christmas!!!
Ah thanks Marti! Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄🎅
Oh Ant, your cushion looked like a Kardashian butt lol. It was a great effort tho, and your sewing has come on leaps and bounds, and for that shaped cushion, you need a single foam piece as the filling. Using a pattern was really smart too, like I said, your skills in sewing are getting better, and better. I liked your bedazzled ball, it came out looking really cool. My favourite thing you did tho was that stack of presents, that came out so well! I think I might try that myself, thanks for the idea. Have a great Xmas Ant, and don't let the commercialism spoil the days for you.
Ah thanks Carly! 😁😁
Honestly, nah, the pillow looks cute, just more chunky and peachy.
Because of how some fabrics stretch (which is my first guess as to why its so wide/thick) narrower pieces would have given a slimmer result, probably.
Personally if I were to have such a pillow gifted to me/I choose one to buy I would have preferred the chunky peachy one, just looks more comfy
Fun projects! Are you doing a New Year's special? (Just curious, no pressure.) Hope you are feeling better and Merry Christmas to you and all of your pups!
I have a video coming out on new years eve, hopefully it'll be a fun end to the year! 😁😁
@@AnthonyCrammen Oh, yay! Happy New Year!!
What happens if you just sew 3 or 4 portions together per pillow instead of 5? You might find it looks elongated! Since you already have the pieces cut, could clip them together to see.
Wax pen for the rhinestones. I did something similar with sequins and I couldn't find my wax pen. ( from a diamond paint kit) so I gave up. Same as you it took ages I wet a toothpick and picked them up with the flat end .Then I found my wax pen so I may finish it.
Sorry to see the cushions didn't work out 😂 I think you should retry using the pattern they did, you could do it with the correct pattern!
You just made a Christmas bulbs pillow. Lol
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Your plush “Christmas light” was shaped more like a dreidel. You could have saved it by turning it into a Hanukkah craft instead of a Christmas craft!
The pattern was ok, 4 sections was silly, you only needed two, but it's a lovely pumpkin for next year 😊
I think the pillow looks like an ornament shape.. Trim it in an ornament design??
Your sewing projects won't ever be that great because you haven't got any stickers or anything personalizing it! Deck the machine, my friend, and you will see immediate improvement in your crafts and you'll want to use it more often too! ❤
It looks like you were making pumpkins instead. Maybe you can say that it's a large stuffed jingle bell. lol
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Try making a paper pattern. ;) love this channel, I just subbed!
ALL I can think about is how I would decorate a h0M0ph0bic christmas tree..... I had to pause the video for a second to seriously consider this and I'm still not sure... this is going to plague me for days now, and anything I can think of I dont want to get comment banned. Thanks for making this my mindwandering thought for the next few days. All I REALLY want to do now is ask everyone at church what they would put on one... and I just might, it will make the day truly more interesting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Merry 🎄 Christmas (even if you arent a huge fan)
🤣🤣 Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄
You might try working on these again now that you are more familiar with the machine.
I really hope you retry those pillows. I think that you needed to make the pattern more narrow to achieve the bulb shape. Try it out on paper first - cut what you think the pattern should look like and glue it together and see if it gets the shape you want. Making your own patterns is a trial and error process, ya know? Anywho... I admitted to my husband (and online) that I HATE the show Frosty the Snowman. I couldn't figure out WHY. Just knew that seeing clips of it, etc just bubbled up this anger in me. Sat and thought about it a long time and it came down to it just being forced cheerfulness. I can't stand the "it's Christmas so you MUST be happy and cheerful!" bullshit. LOL I grew up very poor, single mother wth 2 kids and a deadbeat dad who didn't send child support but every once in a blue moon. When I turned 18 he still owed my mom 10k in child support and medical bills! So yeah, Christmas is a mixed bag for me. I love showering my husband in gifts. Sometimes I enjoy visiting the in-laws but I'd be just as happy staying at home, just hubby, me and the 3 cat nipped-high cats.
Questioned my life 😅😅😅😅😅😅
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Hey there!
I think the hypothesis of the narrower pattern will work.
Also, maybe using only 2 instead of 4. Let's just not give up on that just yet. 😄😄😄
Anyway, I can’t wait for the video tomorrow!!!
Big hugs