#4 Make French Press Cozy
Week four and another check in the box. Check out my progress here. We'd been wrapping a towel around the french press to keep coffee hot, but there's nothing cute about that. So, I made a cozy for our french press. This counts as home improvement, right?Supplies to make cozy:
- 1/3 yard insulated batting
- 1/3 yard lightweight cotton fabric (I used a simple natural color for the inside, but you can use another fun print and make it reversible)
- two cute buttons (four if you want it reversible)
- two coordinating hair bands
- coordinating thread
- sewing machine
- iron and ironing board
- need and thread
- To make the cozy, I started by measuring the height and width of the area that I wanted my cozy to cover. I came up with 5.5" x 12".
- To allow for a 3/4" seam allowance, I cut two pieces of the cotton fabric and one piece of the batting to 6.25"x12.75".
- For the rest I copied the tutorial for making coffee cozies for takeout cups here. I just didn't use any ironing board fabric and left the opening when stitching around the first time a little bigger, maybe 2.5 or 3 inches. I also added a rubber band making them two inches each from the top and bottom. You can definitely make this a reversible thing or not.
- Voila, it's done.
Thanks for reading!
xoxo Caitlin