When I create my jewelry pieces to sell I have often sometimes been known to not want to sell the pieces. You spend a long time creating the piece…some artists like to call that "giving birth" to the piece and then when it comes to passing it along to someone else it kind of feels like they are taking a little piece of you away with them.

I made this cascading necklace and thought it turned out nice but I hadn't really bonded with it until after I tried it on with a few things.

Now it's going to be hard to let go…

Shoes – Nine West, Jeans – Garage, Shirt – H&M, Necklace – by me : )

You're probably thinking…well sell this one and just make another one. Funny thing is that I don't work like that. I only make something once. I hate repeating anything. It's a big turn off for me. It is boring and not creative at all.

So, as hard as it was I have put this baby up for adoption. I hope she goes to a loving home where they will take her out and show her off often. She is a bright young thing and deserves that.

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I made a Polyvore set a while back that had this lovely sweater in it…

Dorothy Perkins sweater

This was the set I'd made…

Anyhoo… I decided to DIY a zebra sweater myself.

I started off by making a pattern I drew by hand onto some craft paper.

I inserted some cardboard behind my sweater to make it flatter and also to protect it from paint bleeding through.

Then I cut out the pattern and trimmed it to fit on the sweater.

I decided to cut around some of the pencil on the pattern so that I would be able to trace the image onto the sweater better. This can be a bit fussy. I didn't do it everywhere…just enough to trace some of the image details onto the sweater. Then I pinned the cut pattern onto the sweater and traced the image with a paint pen. I just sort of slid my paint pen inbetween the slits I had cut in the pattern.

After I painted in the black with acrylic paint and a brush.

I went back in and filled in some areas and added a bit more detail free hand.

The one thing about painting on a sweater is that because it is a knit it was a bit harder to control the edges of the image. I would recommend just going slowly and using a paint pen for the finer details rather than a brush. I found it easier to work with.