A while back, I spotted a new swap thingy happening via the sewing interwebs. The Covert Robin swap. It sounded like fun, so I went and signed up. 🙂
After a fair bit of cyber-stalking my swap buddies blog, I finished off my gift and sent it off to them this week.
Wanna see what I made?
Yep, it’s orange and yellow and white. Can you guess what it is?
A tea pot cozy!
I used this tutorial over here. Lots of fun to make up, I’m thinking I may have to make myself one. (Except I have a couple of fabulous knitted ones my mother-in-law made for me, so I don’t really need another. Maybe I need to make a few more as gifts….)
Since my swap buddy likes vintage linens and doilies, I figured she’s probably be a tea drinker. (I don’t know about you, but vintage linen and tea kinda of go together in my brain.) I carried through the vintage inspiration by using a vintage cotton for the outside, and some vintage braid for the loop on the top. (The inside is a craft cotton leftover from a dress I made a couple of years back.) There’s batting sandwiched between the two layers, and bias binding finishing it off around the bottom.
I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. It fits snugly over a teapot, and the colours make me happy. Hopefully the girl I made it for will like it…..!
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Cool. This could be a good way to use up scraps. I also read on another blog that someone used old towels as batting for pot warmers. You could use the same thing for this, I think.
Oh, that’s so cute! Well done!
Hehe, so cute!
What a cute as a button cosy! And the lining fabric is too cute for words 😀
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