We have been sorting fabric for our upcoming sale. A friend of mine asked me to finish up a project she started a while back - some bowl cozies. They were fun to make and featured plain yellow on one side and a very cute bee fabric on the other. These have to be made with all cotton materials - outer fabric, batting and thread - as to keep them safe from melting in microwaves. She provided all I needed including precut batting so I made up all four of them. I misunderstood the instructions so these are a little larger and shallower that they should have been. In the end, that is not so serious but I did have to rectify my mistake by adding several seams on the sides of the tucks in order to keep the batting well centered once these are washed which they no doubt will require at some point. I was supposed to incorporate the batting and fabric in the seam when I was sewing the darts. I only trimmed the fabric after I was finished sewing. Had I trimmed the triangles out before sewing it was have been much more evident that I had to sew all four layers to each other. My first time making bowl cozies so I have learned my lesson and I was glad to be able to rectify my mistake without taking them apart. These are headed to our merchandise table for our Gramma Link Africa events later this year. I did make several more with flannel which I had on hand so there is a good selection of colours in this little stack. So nice that they are reversible so you can use the side you like the best.
Therese
