A while ago I bought a lot of acrylic yarn from Reverse Garbage, in these great big spools. I snagged a range of greens, and have been making many green things since. Some of these things have ruffles.
The ruffles I've used are roughly from this cushion tutorial.
But I didn't want to make just a cushion. First, I made a tea cosy out of the pattern.
Tea party!
Short tea cosy tutorial:
I made two rectangles for the sides, instead of working in the round.
To make the rectangles, I started with two chains as long as I wanted the rectangles to be wide, which was long enough that together they easily wrapped around the widest part of the teapot
Clearer instruction: Measure around the biggest part of the teapot, add about 3cm, then divide by 2. Make 2 chains of this final length.
Then from each foundation chain I just worked down in the ruffle pattern.
When I'd made two matching rectangles, I sewed the sides together (inside out)- leaving gaps for the handle and spout.
After turning it right side out, I threaded some yarn through the tops of the rectangles, and pulled the yarn through, to gather the top of the tea cosy tightly (I left a small gap for the top of the teapot lid to poke through).
And Voila! a tea cosy.
Then I decided I needed more green ruffles in my life, so made a cushion, more closely following the pattern above.
I stuffed my cushion with wadding from Reverse Garbage - they usually have heaps! I don't know what I would do without Reverse Garbage (I'm such a groupie). It makes sticking to my rule of not buying new stuff SO much easier.
If I think of other things that could do with some green ruffles I will probably make those too.
(yay for instagram filters - so fun! though they make all my other photos look kinda boring...)
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