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Get Your Christmas Gifts Early — Shop my Store on Redbubble (Sale On Now!)

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A festive knitted-style Christmas pattern in the tradition of an ugly Christmas sweater — rows of snowmen, Christmas trees, snowflakes, reindeer, and holly in red, green, white, and yellow on a navy background. Available as greeting cards and on a t-shirt.
Classic Holiday Mashup Sweater Pattern — © John Corney

It may still feel a touch early in the season, but Christmas has a way of sneaking up quickly — and with worldwide shipping still slower than it used to be during the holiday rush, now is genuinely the right time to start thinking about cards and gifts.

I've added a fresh batch of festive designs to my Redbubble shop, KornKob Art, this season. The cheerful knitted-style Christmas pattern above is one of them — a snowman, Christmas tree, snowflake, reindeer, and holly mashup designed to look like the kind of vintage Fair Isle holiday jumper your aunt used to give you. It was quiet a favorite of last Christmas's holiday shopping, and the orders are starting to come in again, which suggests it's struck a chord with people who appreciate the joke and the craft.

Two Ways to Use the Same Design

Part of what I like about this particular pattern is that it works two completely different ways depending on the product.

As a Christmas card, it's straightforwardly handsome — a warm, traditional, slightly nostalgic holiday pattern that doesn't lean too cute or too clever. The sort of card that holds its own on a mantelpiece or pinned to a kitchen noticeboard.

As a t-shirt, it becomes something genuinely funny: a fake ugly Christmas sweater. The whole charm of the ugly-sweater tradition is the wink — wearing the visual idea of a hideous holiday knit without actually having to own one. A t-shirt printed with this pattern is honestly a smarter choice than a real ugly sweater: more comfortable at the party, easier to laundry, and you can wear it all the way through the season without the wool getting itchy. It's a perfect office-party shirt, a gift for the person who delights in tongue-in-cheek holiday gear, or a way to fly under the radar at a "tacky Christmas" event while quietly knowing your shirt is actually quite well designed.

Available on Cards, Shirts, Home Décor, and More

The Classic Holiday Mashup Sweater Pattern is available across the full Redbubble product range — greeting cards (singles and packs), t-shirts, stickers, jigsaw puzzles, art prints, throw pillows, mugs, tote bags, and more. The cards in particular are worth knowing about: a pack is a sensible alternative to buying boxed cards from a shop, and supports an independent artist (me!) in the process.

👉 Classic Holiday Mashup Sweater Pattern on Redbubble

Why Order Early

🎄 Redbubble prints each item on demand, which means production plus shipping can take a little extra time during the busy holiday rush. Ordering by mid-November is the safe move if you'd like your cards and gifts to arrive comfortably before Christmas — and it saves you the late-December stress of refreshing your tracking link.

🎁 Redbubble also runs sales fairly often through the season, with discount badges appearing across the shop at various points in October, November, and December. It's worth checking back if you don't see a sale on your first visit — there's usually one along soon.

The Rest of My Holiday Designs

You can browse all my Christmas and holiday designs — alongside everything else in the shop — at my Redbubble store, KornKob Art. Or search Redbubble for kornkobart (one word).

Thank you, as always, for supporting independent artists. Wishing you a cosy, creative, and colourful lead-up to Christmas — and happy early shopping. 🎄

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