Cosy CASE

Stitch a quilted cover for your hot-water bottle

- CHERYL OWEN

SIZE 37x26cm (open) and 30x26cm (closed).

Fits a standard 2ltr hot-water bottle when unbuttoned or 1ltr closed.

YOU WILL NEED

* Access to a photocopier

* Tracing paper, sharp HB pencil and ruler

* 50cm of 112cm-wide cream patterned fabric

* 50cm of 112cm-wide navy patterned fabric

* 50cm of 90cm-wide medium-loft iron-on wadding

* Bodkin or safety pin

* 2cm button

* Matching sewing threads

STOCKISTS

Folk Trinkets Maven and New Beginnings Maven fabric, £8 per half metre, The Fabric Fox; thefabricfox. co.uk. Medium-loft iron-on wadding, £5.50 per half metre, Doughty’s; doughtysonline.co.uk.

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