Homemade teacosy. Me and my boyfriend developed a thing for Bettys loose leaf tea, I advise all you tea lovers to try it! We use to keep the teapot warm by wrapping a tea towel round it, so I decided it was time to take action. Being a craft student I have loads of bits of fabric all over the place, which is perfect for a piece like this. They're so simple to make and can make great presents!
I started by roughly drawing a half moon round the teapot we use, leaving room for sewing, around 1 or 2cm is fine. I then turned up the bottom around 1cm, and stitched along the line on a sewing machine, if you want you can do things like this by hand and iron it over, you could even use bondaweb if you want! I then added my decoration to the front, I cut shapes out of various fabrics and used applique to add them onto my teacosy, you can do whatever you desire! and use whatever means to attach them, I've used a combination of machine and hand embroidery. I then created the tab at the top by just cutting a rectangle of fabric, facing the outsides together and stitched along the edge and turned it inside out. I then faced the front and back together, remembering the tab at the top and stitched about 1cm away from the edge around the outside, turn it inside out and there you have it! You can also add a lining if you wish or some insulation.
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