Make your own hot water bottle out of felt

What you need:

• Cotton fabric
• scissors
• Hot water bottle
• Felt pen
• Fabric paints
• application
• Motifs made of felt
• sewing machine
• or needle and thread
• possibly cord

Instructions for making a hot water bottle made of felt

Since a hot water bottle filled with hot water is uncomfortable on the skin and can even cause burns, there is a cover that is kind to the skin. You can make a cover for your hot water bottle yourself felt to embellish it with individual patterns and motifs.

1. Cut the cut to size. Choose a craft felt in the color of your choice to make a hot water bottle. To do this, add the hot water bottle to determine the necessary dimensions. Place the hot water bottle on the felt and trace the outlines with a felt pen. Just draw the body of the hot water bottle up to the outer edges of the "bottle shoulders". You can skip the bottleneck. Either draw the outlines a little larger directly by eye or you then enlarge the outline by 1 - 1.5 centimeters for the seam allowance.
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2. Cut out. Make a front and a back in this way and cut them out with sharp scissors.
3. Design hot water bottle. Now your ideas are in demand: embellish the hot water bottle with a name or lettering or with nice motifs such as an animal, a crown or a symbol. You can also sew on an already finished appliqué. Use fabric paints or cut out the motifs from felt of a different color to attach them to the front and back of the hot water bottle.
4. Sew on motifs. It is best to sew motifs made of felt onto the hot water bottle by hand or with a sewing machine - this way you can be sure that they do not come off, as is the case with frequent use or use. due to the heat of the hot water bottle can be the case.


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5. Additive. In order to pack a real hot water bottle in the felt cover and to be able to take it out again, you have to hold the bottle shoulders (on the felt template yourself) sew on an additional fabric that is just as wide as the template made of felt (seam allowance is already available!) and as high as the neck of the bottle is. You can then gather this fabric, close it with a ribbon and, if necessary, open it again to remove the hot water bottle. Pay attention to a heat-resistant material. It is best to use a pure cotton fabric.
6. Sew the cover together. Then you have to sew the cover of the hot water bottle together. First sew the cotton fabric onto the front and back of the felt template and then place the two right sides on top of each other to sew the outer edges together.

Now turn the cover inside out and your hot water bottle is almost ready. Take a cord or a woolen thread or sew a ribbon from the cotton fabric you have already used to seal the hot water bottle.