For the first crafty post, here's something anyone can make, whether you feel you have talent or not. It needn't cost you a penny, embodies the notion of recycling, and is a perfect thing to make on a cold Sunday in February. I don't claim to be the first to think of this idea. I've seen it around in various forms for yonks.
You will need:
An old jumper
A hot water bottle
other fabric scraps for decoration (optional)
We decided to embellish ours with some felt shapes. Sew them on or use fabric glue.
Because our sleeves weren't very stretchy we made cute little ties for the neck. To do this cut off either the neck band of the jumper or the waist band. We sewed on little felt covers to the end of the ties to stop fraying and to co-ordinate the colour scheme.
Insert your empty bottle through the neck hole, and tie the waistband ribbon around the neck to finish. Ta daaaaa!
Eleanor doesn't really do crafts at all - she's the foody one - but even she managed to make one of these with my instructions. We each had a sleeve of the jumper. She complained that mine looks better than hers, but for a first attempt at something like this I thought she did brilliantly.
Below is Eleanors hot water bottle cover. She went for explosions instead of flowers. What would Freud say about that? (Actually the real reason is that Eleanor is left handed and struggled to cut with my scissors. She needed a shape with straight lines!)
An old jumper
A hot water bottle
other fabric scraps for decoration (optional)
First raid your wardrobe, or in my case my Husband's wardrobe, to find an old jumper. The garment donated to me (under slight sufferance) was not the most cheerful of colours but beggars can't be choosers. By the way, the best jumpers to use for this are knitted ones with nice ribbed cuffs.
OK, stuff your hottie inside the arm of the jumper with the bottle neck at the cuff end to test for size. Chop off the arm of the jumper an inch or so below the bottom of the bottle. In my case I decided to leave lots of extra space at the cuff end so I could turn it under to make a sort of polo neck effect.
Now turn the severed arm inside out and sew along the cut edge. If you are doing this on a machine then also zig zagging over the cut edges will avoid any fraying.
Essentially that's it. Told you it was easy.
OK, stuff your hottie inside the arm of the jumper with the bottle neck at the cuff end to test for size. Chop off the arm of the jumper an inch or so below the bottom of the bottle. In my case I decided to leave lots of extra space at the cuff end so I could turn it under to make a sort of polo neck effect.
Now turn the severed arm inside out and sew along the cut edge. If you are doing this on a machine then also zig zagging over the cut edges will avoid any fraying.
Essentially that's it. Told you it was easy.
We decided to embellish ours with some felt shapes. Sew them on or use fabric glue.
Because our sleeves weren't very stretchy we made cute little ties for the neck. To do this cut off either the neck band of the jumper or the waist band. We sewed on little felt covers to the end of the ties to stop fraying and to co-ordinate the colour scheme.
Insert your empty bottle through the neck hole, and tie the waistband ribbon around the neck to finish. Ta daaaaa!
Eleanor doesn't really do crafts at all - she's the foody one - but even she managed to make one of these with my instructions. We each had a sleeve of the jumper. She complained that mine looks better than hers, but for a first attempt at something like this I thought she did brilliantly.
Below is Eleanors hot water bottle cover. She went for explosions instead of flowers. What would Freud say about that? (Actually the real reason is that Eleanor is left handed and struggled to cut with my scissors. She needed a shape with straight lines!)
1 comment:
Really the nice covers. Some more nice koozies for bottles.
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