Sew lovely! Grandmother knits her granddaughter’s dream Christmas jumper after she created the festive design for a homework task
- Julie Cordiner, from Hartlepool, delighted Twitter users with adorable jumper
- Knitted garment after discovering granddaughter’s dream jumper in picture
- Grandmother has been praised for her ‘labour of love’ with users calling it ‘lovely’
A grandmother has been praised after knitting her granddaughter’s dream Christmas jumper after she created the design for a school project.
Julie Cordiner, from Hartlepool, delighted Twitter users after sharing an adorable picture of her young granddaughter Jessica wearing a hand-made festive jumper after she designed it at school.
The little girl had designed her own jumper for her school homework ahead of Christmas Jumper Day and Julie said her granddaughter’s reaction to the garment was ‘priceless’.
The post gathered 6,500 retweets and 109,600 likes with users calling the Christmas jumper ‘amazing’, and saying Jessica will ‘never forget’ the gesture.
A grandmother has been praised after knitting her granddaughter Jessica’s dream Christmas jumper after finding a drawing of her design. Pictured, Jessica in the jumper
The little girl had designed her own jumper for her school homework ahead of Christmas Jumper Day and her grandmother, Julie Cordiner, from Hartlepool, decided to make it
Julie delighted Twitter users after sharing an adorable picture of her young granddaughter wearing the jumper and said her reaction to the garment was ‘priceless’
Sharing pictures of the drawing and the jumped, Julie penned: ‘My granddaughter had homework to design a Christmas jumper, so I decided to try to create it.
‘The look on her face when she opened it was priceless! Merry Christmas everyone.’
The tweet quickly went viral, with users praising the ‘lovely’ present and sharing memories of their own grandmothers knitting for them.
‘A true labour of love’, wrote one, ‘It’s really beautiful and she’ll never forget it. Did you write a pattern for it? Maybe you could raise more money for charity with.’
The tweet quickly went viral, with users praising the ‘lovely’ present and sharing memories of their own grandmothers knitting for them
Another said: ‘Beautiful jumper & better still your granddaughter! bet she was thrilled’.
A third said: ‘That is AMAZING!!!! and what a lovely Nana (or your own version!) Wish I was as clever! Bet that was your best pressie! I need to find someone to teach me how to knit, maybe this will be the year! Happy Christmas.’
‘That is such a lovely thing to do. She will never, ever forget that jumper and that you knitted it for her from her design. Not ever’, wrote another.
Another user recalled her own grandmother doing something similar, writing: ‘Aww! So thrilled she’s on tip-toes. My daughter (nearly 18) has started wearing a jumper my gran knitted for me 37 years ago. Love in every stitch’.