Happy Valentines Day to you all 🙂 We just had a girls day here. My mom is visiting for a bit while the hubby is out to sea, so it’s been fun. We had beautiful weather, a wonderful church service, a yummy lunch, and some fabulous shopping! I even had time to rake the front yard and fix up the flower bed a bit. I say that’s my workout for the day! Whew!
This tutorial has nothing to do with Valentines Day, but I wanted to share it. A while back when I made coffee cup cozies, Ashley commented about what about the diet coke drinkers? I put it on my list. I made this just for her and wanted to make sure she got it before I posted about it. It’s really simple and it probably could work for coffee cups too 😉
What you need:
–13 x 3.5″ of fleece (or whatever fabric you want to use; just make sure it can be shirred)
–a piece of fabric 13 x 2.75″
–elastic thread for shirring
How to do it:
1. Place the piece of fleece right side up.
2. Place the piece of fabric on top middle of it right side up, matching up the sides. Pin in place.
3. Put elastic thread on your bobbin for shirring and shirr the two layers for a couple of rows. I did quite a few.
4. Then push the fabric top down and shirr underneath of it at the top and bottom.
5. Place the two short ends together, right sides facing, and pin. Sew that side together.
All done. Now it’s ready to adorn some one’s soda can.
Sew cute! Thanks for the tutorial. These will make great little gifts or even gift toppers 🙂
This is so cute!! It’s like a garter for your coke!!
I linked to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-soda-can-cozy-2/2010/02/15/
–Anne
Thank you! This blog post will be advertised on CraftCrave in the Handcraft category today (look for timestamp: [15 Feb 01:00pm GMT]).
adorable…like little bathrobes for your coke!
yay! pretty! and very functional since I don’t drink coffee, but I DO drink cold beverages bweer! 😀
Very cute! I’ve been thinking about trying shirring because my shop has a couple of cute girl’s patterns that have a shirred bodice. This is a great intro project so I don’t “waste” the elastic thread. Yippee!!
Anna
That’s super cute! Thanks so much for adding this to the One Pretty Thing Flickr pool. I’ll b elinking in tomorrow’s Daily DIY.