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Reinvent last year’s comforts with fancy new covers created from blankets or jumpers. Not only can they be kept for yourself, they make great gifts wrapped and dished out to your pals at Christmas too.
Stitch a redwork cover
Using the hot water bottle template on page 84, cut the three pattern pieces from a felted blanket. Overlock or zig zag stitch across the machine stitch a 5mm hem on both pieces. Press fusible webbing to one side of an A4 sheet of red felt.
Use the heart templates from page 84 to cut out two small hearts and one large from the red felt. Position the motifs along the centre of the front blanket piece, spacing them evenly. Peel off the backing paper and fuse them into place, using an iron and pressing cloth.
Thread a needle with three strands of cream embroidery thread and work blanket stitches around the hearts. With a length of red embroidery thread, work French knots around the outside edge of the large heart, with even spaces between each.
Draw a scrolled heart onto the large heart motif with a chalk pen. Thread a needle with three strands of cream embroidery thread and work the chalk line in chain stitch. At the ends of the scrolls and in the centre of each of the hearts, sew lazy daisy stitches. Attach a small red bead to the centre of each of the flowers as well as at the ce
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