Teapot Cozy Tutorial

A little while ago, one of my girlfriends asked me if I could make a teapot cozy for her.  This was yet another request that I had to look up before giving a response.  Like most home goods cozies, the purpose is to keep your hands from getting burned and, in some cases, to keep whatever the cozy is wrapped around, warm. My initial research results were a shit ton of crocheted cozies. And although I’m crafty AF, I don’t really mess with yarn. I eventually came across some super cute fabric cozies.  But a lot of them had really intricate patterns that were uber size specific.   Since this would be my first crack at trying this, I figured I should try a pattern that gave a little (or perhaps a lot) wiggle room for screwing it up.

After finding THIS pattern, I went shopping for fabric.  My homegirl has a lemon themed kitchen.  It’s not obnoxious…just enough for you to realize there’s a theme.  I searched high and low for some lemon print fabric and couldn’t find it anywhere.  So instead I went with lemon colored fabric and lime colored accents.

Pattern:

Instructions:

1. Sew one C to D, right sides together.  Sew the other C to the D, right sides together. Press the seams open.

2. Layer the C/D unit and A, right sides together, matching raw edges. Layer Insul-Bright or batting on wrong side of A. Pin and stitch through all layers around rectangle leaving a 4" opening in the middle of one long edge.

3. Trim the corners.

4. Turn right side out. Press the seam allowance in on the opening and stitch closed. Stitch 1/4" from the edge around the rectangle. Quilt as desired.

5. On the outside of the rectangle mark an erasable line 1-1/2" down from the short edge. Repeat on the other end.

6. Fold 1/2" to the wrong side at each end of each E. Press. Fold each E in half wrong sides together along the length of the strip.

7. Position one E with raw edges on the marked line and fold toward the top edge. Stitch 1/4" from raw edge.

8. Press E down over the raw edges, pin, and stitch close to folded edge to create casing for ribbon. Repeat with the other E.

9. Thread a ribbon through each casing, evenly distributing the length hanging on both sides. Sure the ribbon by sewing a stich vertically down the center of E on each side.

To use the teapot cozy, tie a bow on one end, carefully insert the teapot, gather the ribbon in the casing on each side, and tie the remaining bow.

I didn’t have the actual teapot this cozy was going to be used on handy.  So I used a tea defuser we happened to have lying around.

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