Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The Weirdest Thing I've Ever Made

Let's see if you guys can figure out what it is:


No?  How about if I show you the back:


Still no?

OK - how about now?


Hahahaha!

This is Hubby's big ol' beer stein.  He keeps it in the freezer so that when he wants a beer, he has a nice frosty glass to drink it from.  He also likes to fill this big boy half with orange juice and half with flavored carbonated water - quite delicious.

For years, we've just been wrapping the freezing handle in a dish rag, but the other day he asked me if I could come up with a more elegant solution.  "Of course,"  I said.  And here it is.

Believe it or not, I used my shirt-making skillz on this one.  I have three layers of fusible fleece in there; in order to get it to curve, I cut 1/4" off the width of the inside fabric piece and eased it to fit the outside piece, giving it a slight curve like a collar.

This is my second go.  I didn't measure before making my first one - just kind of eyeballed it - and it was too tall and not wide enough.  On this one, I initially sewed my velcro pieces to the single layers of fabric before sewing the thing together, all fancy-like.  But when I tried to put it on the handle, it didn't feel sturdy enough.  You have to pull really tight to get this . . . stein handle cozy? . . . onto the handle.  I made it that way on purpose so it wouldn't slip around like the dishrags used to.  So I unpicked the velcro tabs and sewed them through all layers of the . . . stein handle cozy.

So, what do you think?  Will I start a new trend?  Should I make a bunch of these and sell them on late-night TV?

This thing cracks me up!

21 comments:

  1. Ha ha! That's great. I think you could definitely set a new trend with that!

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  2. Hahaha interesting

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  3. I can see you now on late night T.V. Oh wait! I'm never up that late!!!!!

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    1. Hahaha! Me neither! Better come up with a different plan!

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  4. Stein handle cozy! Totally a thing now.

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  5. Cute, it's the classier uncle of the beer can cozy!

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  6. Ooh, my stomach hurts so much from giggling ~ love this!

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  7. You better trademark this thing pronto. Seriously, what a great idea!

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  8. that's hysterical! and seriously nice of you. i'm sure if my husband asked, my response would be along the lines of-- "deal with it hon." love it though, it's genius!

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  9. This is great - and yes, my husband would totally want one!

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  10. Oh, I can see this in SkyMall!

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  11. This is so adorable! Heehee, you two are so much fun!

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  12. Oh my gosh, this could be a new business for you! I love that your husband knew you could upgrade his rag-on-handle trick! So funny!

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  13. Ahahahahahaha! Too funny! But it's oh-so-practical!

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