Out of the Ground Comes Spring
February 23rd, 2008
I’ve been eying my heating pad cover for sometime with disgust. Those felty things aren’t the prettiest in the world. I wanted to make my own cover, so it could be cute and useful. This is what I came up with. I spent a lot of time on the details–French seams and hemming tape at the top to reinforce it. I’ve never made an appliqué flower before, but it was simple enough to do. I used some of the gorgeous blue cloud and bat fabric I got just a smidge of, because it was ridiculously expensive.
I made this last weekend, when I had President’s Day off. Little did I know that I’d have to use it all week long! I spent a long day helping paint a friend’s house and apparently twisted something in my back, making it difficult to move and so that I had to cart my heating pad into work each day. I’m a little, old lady in disguise, apparently.
We’ve had glorious weather here. It’s been downright balmy and sunny and just spectacular. Work was another long week, but one without travel. This winter seems to be passing quickly, thankfully. I am already aching for warm weather and beach time. I heard the groundhog didn’t see his shadow, but that means nothing, right? Because the crocuses are popping up here and I’m ready to put the sweaters away.
9 Comments Add your own
1. kelly | February 24th, 2008 at 7:09 am
oh lovely, my heating pad could so use a cover, great idea! -kb
2. geek+nerd | February 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
haha – winter is still going strong out in New Hampshire – I’m looking at about three feet of snow out my window! No crocuses here!
3. Alison | February 25th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Very cute! I need to make a cover for my heat pad…it’s been getting a lot of use lately and a cover would be most helpful!!
4. Anita | February 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I love the cover! I’ve often though of making one for my heating pad, but I didn’t think of making it this cute.
5. Mamiedale | February 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
What a great idea. I’ve never thought of covering my heating pad. I only use it when I’m sick, so that might cheer things up a bit!
6. June | February 26th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Your new heating pad cover is quite lovely. The applique flower is very well done; at first I thought I was seeing a bit of mosaic work. I’m going to dig my heating pad out and look at it to see if I can make mine anywhere near as pretty as yours.
7. Chara Michele | February 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I love the appliqué flower! Very cute cover.
8. Meg | February 28th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Only a true fashionista (or craftster) wants style with her pain relief! How pretty it is! Sorry you had to use it so soon. You’re no little old lady; I’ve been using those things since I was 9!!
9. Berlinswhimsy | February 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I love the applique! The design is beautiful…
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed