Happy Mother's Day!
I have been saving this post as I didn't want my mums surprise to be ruined. I have had a busy crafting week. I have made mum a hot water bottle cover, which is just as well as the weather is so chilly this week. So I have spent a grand total of £4 on a hot water bottle and put a lot of love into the making.
This is the first time I have taken step by step pictures and hope that it all makes sense, please let me know, gentle comments please, if I have made an error with the crochet instructions.
If you make this or any hot water bottle cover I would love you to tell me how it turned out, or even send me a picture and I will attach them to my blog with your name. My email address is kraftywindsor@gmail.com. I'm looking forward to your posts.
Firstly you need an old jumper or tank top, I have gone for one with a bit of cable on it, so the back has a nice pattern on it too. It was a pure wool jumper (old of cause) and I felted it by washing it in machine at 90 degrees.
Draw around the hot water bottle, this will be your stitch line. I have used the bottom rib of the jumper for the neck.
Once you have stitched around, making sure you leave the end open so you can put the hot water bottle in, turn it in side out and you are now ready to crochet the flowers.
I crocheted the flowers with 'My First Regia' and a hook 2 1/4mm. I used three colours.
Make a slip knot to do a magic ring and do 1ch
Do 10dc into the ring
Join with a sl st into the first dc to close the ring
This is where we start the petals, we will do 5 of these.
In the next dc 1dc, 1htr, 1tr, 1htr, 1dc
Sl st into the next dc
* In the next dc, 1dc, 1htr, 1tr, 1htr, 1dc, Sl st into next dc
Repeat from * until you have 5 petals
fasten off yarn
Pull tail end of yarn to close hole a little more
I made 12 of these and stitched buttons to them and attached them to the cover. I popped in the hot water bottle and hand stitched the end closed.
Ta Dah!
You can also make these little flowers and attach them to a ring, I bought a pack of them from a craft shop.
Horray for the glue gun!
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