This year I have been working on hot water bottle covers for all of my relatives.
They are super easy to make and I think that they are a really nice gift for someone. I love keeping warm, so I would personally love to receive one of these for Christmas. I went to a local fabric shop and bought a couple of metres of white fleece (I had worked out before how much I would need based on how many I planned to make).
I chose to go for white fleece because I wanted some really nice colourful embroidery and didn't want to be restricted by the background colour. White is also really fluffy, and if we're thinking technically, a very good emitter so should keep you extra cosy!
I used a pattern that I drafted myself by measuring a standard hot water bottle and look at other covers. The design that I went for has Velcro up one side which is where you take the hot water bottle in and out. This isn't the typical position for hot water bottle cover fastenings, but I was thinking more for ease of sewing.
As I mentioned, I chose to use Velcro because the sticky stuff is very easy to apply, easy to cut to the right size, and very strong to use. One of my friends and I also have a bit of an inside joke about sticky-back Velcro, so it always makes me smile.
The main part of the hot water bottle cover however is where I have embroidered it. I think it's really nice to have a personalised gift and is just that little bit different. It also solves the problem of what to get those people who are oh-so difficult to buy for!
I want to make it clear that embroidery really isn't my strong point, and that it is really hard to draw your design onto the fleece because pencil just doesn't show up at all, so I was going freehand for most of it. I chose to add a little picture in the corner to distract from the fact that the names are slightly off-centre!
It's probably a little worrying that Christmas is in 3 days (WOO) and I have only made two out of eight! Oh well, I should better get stitching!
See you tomorrow!
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