I really really needed to make something...

I've not done anything crafty for ages. Well, I've hidden a secret stash of flapjacks where the children won't find them but that's not the kind of crafty I meant.

I have craft stuff coming out of my ears - paper crafts, stuff for cards and scrapbooks, fabric... you name it, I can probably locate it somewhere in my meticulously organised house.

Today my need was for sewing. After a short amount of time spent staring out of the kitchen window with a cup of coffee in my hand, I spent 30 seconds googling and happened upon a pattern for a coffee cup sleeve. I actually ended up making a reversible one as per the tutorial a little further down the page but using the pattern for this one. I didn't add the little pocket for the love note because, to be honest, no one is going to leave me one and, if they did, I'd rather they left it in a box from Tiffany.

Can you tell where it's from?

Anyway, I got a little distracted from my coffee cup sleeve and first I made a lens cap case for my dad - he has been complaining about the impracticality of the supplied piece of cord that keeps you from losing the cap on his camera and this seemed to fit the bill. On receiving this he seemed happy with it but complained that I'd not made one to hold his polarising filter. Still, as it was nearly fathers day, I let him off.

Back to the coffee cup sleeve. Having decided to make this, I then fabricated a trip into Croydon with SmallDragon#2 on the pretext of going into TKMax to he could scavenge rubber bands from the floor around the handbag department (he wanted to make a rubber band ball). The real reason for the trip was, however, to get a takeaway coffee so I could ensure the planned sleeve fitted. We both returned, satisfied. I showed him how to make his bands into a ball, he left me alone for half an hour to sew.

The sleeve worked well and has the added advantage of hiding where the coffee came from. Result!