Easy Peasy DIY Reusable Coffee Sleeve
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Borei Design
Reusable coffee sleeves help reduce waste and adds a little snaz to your coffee cup. Here's how to quickly create your own.
1. Create your pattern by opening up and tracing a disposable coffee sleeve and adding 1/4 inch seam allowance on all sides or snag the free printable template off my website.
2. Trace around pattern on to fabric with a water soluble marker or pen. Trace and cut it out twice using your selected fabric for the inner and outer shell and once using craft felt for batting. In these pics I cut it out once using fabric from a fat quarter, once from a piece of plain of scrap t-shirt fabric and once using a piece of scrap felt leftover from a previous project.
4 Sew around the outside of the layers (using a 1/4 inch seam allowance), completely closing three of the sides and leaving a small opening on the center on one end. Clip the edges of all four corners in the seam allowance to help the corners pop out better.
5. Turn the layers right side out though the small opening left on the end, making sure that the felt layer is turned toward the inside of the sleeve.
6. Cut a hair elastic in half. Using one of the halves, add a couple of stitches to the end to create a loop. Tuck the loop into the small opening that was previously used for turning the sleeve right side out. Top stitch around all four corners to flatten the sleeve and secure elastic inside.
7. Wrap the sleeve around a coffee cup and marked the side of sleeve inside elastic at the your farthest closing point.
8. Sew button onto marked spot and enjoy!
Happy crafting my friends! May your coffee be great and your day be greater! :)
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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These are a great gift idea for the many coffee drinkers in my life!
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