Insulated Totes for Drink Bottles

These can be made for any size bottle you may have, just adjust the cutting size. Â

Insulated Totes For Soda & Water Bottles
Debbie Colgrove
7/7/04

Bring your own beverage to parades and community events and keep them cold.

Here you’ll find insulated bottle totes in various sizes for most popular water and soda bottles. Here is a way to keep that drink cold!

Materials

fabric

light weight fleece or quilt batting

1/4″ wide elastic

Optional: 1″ wide nylon webbing for strap

Optional: Hook and loop tape

Thread

Cutting
Construction

Place batting on wrong side of the fabric, matching the edges and covering half of the fabric.
Quilt the batting area.
Optional: Attach the belt or bike strap – Find full directions here
Fold with wrong sides together and align the long edges. Sew a 1/4″ seam.
Press Open
Place the elastic around the tube, matching the ends of the elastic to the top of the batting and seam allowance edges. Sew the elastic at the seam line, back-stitching to reinforce the stitching.
Fold the wrong sides together, enclosing the batting. Zig zag the raw edge.
Pin the elastic to the fold and topstitch 1″ from the folded edge.
Layer the two circle pieces with a piece of batting. Zig zag the edges together.
Match the circle to the zig zagged edge of the tube. Sew with a 1/4″ seam.
Turn inside out so the seam allowance is inside.
ENJOY!

I am just smitten with this felt gingerbread house bag. This would make such a sweet special Christmas accessory for a kid. It’s a free pattern at Benzie Design, designed by Gracie from Hello Gracie Makes. It’s packed with adorable gingerbread house details, like swirls and stripes and scallops adoring the doors and windows.

And while all those details might seem like this would be a complicated pattern, it’s actually not. The bag itself is made from felt, which makes finishes edges unnecessary. (All of those scalloped edges are just cut from felt, no edge finishing required.) The strap is super simple, made from rope with knotted ends. And all those details are made with some basic hand embroidery stitches. Sparkle felt makes it extra cute.

The striped scallop roof is actually the top flap of the bag. A magnetic snap makes it a secure closure. The rope straps are attached through felt loops at the side of the bag.

They rate this project as an intermediate level, and it should take about 6 hours to make start to finish. That’s doable for a Saturday project or a couple of evenings. Full color photos step you through the entire process.

The project includes a shopping list for all of your supplies. They’ve got a shop so you can order all of them from Benzie if you like and get exactly the supplies used in the project. I noticed it includes a pair of scallop shears, which makes cutting all the scalloped edges for the roof and around the door a breeze.

Finished dimensions of the little felt gingerbread bag are approximately 6 ½” wide x 7 ½” tall. That’s the perfect size to hold a small book, a small toy, or a notepad and some cute pens.

Go to Benzie Design to get the tutorial and free pattern for the felt gingerbread house bag.

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