Originally a quilted tea cosy I slaved over the patchwork. I gathered up lots of my smallest scraps and sewed and ironed until I had two squares that were big enough for my rough paper pattern. Now when I say a ROUGH pattern…I do mean a rough pattern. ok…I confess..I drew around my current tea cosy!
Then i quilted the two squares, cut around my pattern and bound the edges…by this point the patchwork was looking fab – bright colour combinations, stripes spots and flowers!
The edges bound I then tacked together the two sides to make an opening for the spout and handle…and only then dear readers did I think to try it on the actual pot…DOH!
The tea cosy was at least and inch too small and the openings for the handle and spout did not sit right….
Then came the fateful light bulb moment…I can trim it! I unpicked the two sides and then cut them down to size…I re-bound the edges and then tried it on for size….this time the rebellious tea cosy was TOO SMALL!!
A few choice words were uttered!
I was so happy with the quilted sides though that I had to think of something to do with them…the answer…pot holders/oven gloves or trivets. I added a loop of fabric to each side so that they could be hung up and sure enough they are exactly the right size for grabbing hot plates from the oven! …want a look at what caused me so much trouble?
They are very pretty though.
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