The pocket of some neglected jeans (remember, don’t buy bargain jeans any more) is simply layered face up a piece of canvas face down then  insulbright  and felt – I didn’t have any batting to hand. I tucked in a loop of cord for hanging – and sewed around using my walking foot, leaving a gap for turning.

After turning I hand stitched the gap as the bulk was too much for the machine and voila! The pocket works on the oven glove better than it ever did on my jeans.

So so simple that I made a smaller version with the other front pocket immediately.

now to make the two back pockets into a double mitt creation!

Any heavyweight fabric (left over curtain or upholstery looks great but still needs interfacing to give it structure.

Method; cut four 20 x 15 cm sides and two 15 x 15 squares for top and bottom plus one 15 x 12 cm strip for the handle. Interface everything.

Create the handle by folding the sides of the strip to the middle then fold in half and top stitch closed. Top stitch the other side for effect. Stitch the handle to your top piece, fixing it in an ‘x’ pattern at either end for strength.

Line up the four sides inside out  and stitch with an even seam width down the 20cm sides to create a cube (sort of) then with right sides still together together pin and then stitch the top into the cube.

Check you have caught all the corners then stitch the base piece in leaving a gap for turning.

Turn,  stuff with wadding, gravel – best in a sandwich or simple mini sack – Try to surround the sack with wadding so the cube sits right and stuff more than you think necessary, then slip stitch the gap closed.

I won a web draw prize and a box of very useful goodies arrived in time for me to take to our holiday home and enjoy a lovely play time.

i wanted to try the sunburst card technique so this was a good opportunity.  Make a mat with scratch paper, cover it with glue stick. Take rectangles of patterned paper and cut diagonally to form triangles which you then assemble over the scratch paper. The triangles should overlap the edges and will be trimmed off later.

You might need to trim the last triangle to fit. Trim the edges so the mat can now be put on your card base and place a topper or greeting on the centre, this covers any less than perfect assembly. Great way to use scraps.

the photo shows the card with a box made to hold it and several other Anita’s A6 cards and envelopes all made with paper from the docrafts simply floral A4 ultimate die cut and paper pack