Baby Bottle Cozy
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Average
Age: 9 and up
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This soft bottle cozy has plenty of stimulating items for baby to touch and look at while he eats. The design possibilities are endless and no two cozies will be the same.
Be sure to visit our baby shower party guide, get recipe ideas, more great crafts, and get all your shower questions answered here.What you'll need:
- Baby bottle
- Fleece material
- Needle
- Thread to match material
- Buttons, pom poms, ribbon, etc
- Scissors
How to make it:
- Lay bottle onto fabric to determine size you will need. You will need a rectangle shaped piece of fleece. Lay the bottle in the middle of the fabric and bring one end of fabric up (like you are covering up a baby in bed). There should be enough room on each side to sew and enough room at the top for the bottle to fit in snugly. We used a 4” x 14” piece.
- Fold rectangle in half so that you now have a 4” x 7” folded piece. On the side that will be the outside of the cozy, hand sew buttons, pom poms or other soft items to the fabric.
- Turn the fabric so that it is right side down and hand sew both sides all the way up.
- Turn inside out and slip bottle into the fabric. Determine how much of the top of the fabric will need to be folded down and sewn in place in order for the top of the bottle and the nipple to show.
- Turn cozy inside out again and fold down the top flap. Sew the top flap to create a smooth seam at the top when cozy is inverted to the correct side.
- Cut a piece of ribbon long enough to go around the bottle top twice. Place the bottle inside the cozy and tie the ribbon loosely around the top of the cozy. Tack the center of the ribbon to the cozy with several stitches. This will allow you to tie and until the ribbon if the top needs to be tightened around the bottle top.
Tips:
- If making a bottle cozy for an infant younger than 3 months, avoid busy designs. Use simple fabric with only a couple of colors and a few decorative additions. You can add more decorative additions as the child gets older.
- Black and white are great shades that stimulate a baby’s vision. Try white and black fabric with red pom poms.
- One quarter of a yard of fabric will make a LOT of cozies!
