Closet + Windows + Bathroom = Wrap
In my house, the only closet is exactly on the opposite side of the house from the only bathroom, and there are four windows and two doors in between them. Let me say that having a robe for the windows and slippers for the cold floors has become a necessity since I moved in.
However, I dislike robes. Mine always seem to untie themselves. In front of a window.
I found the solution in Simple Sewing with a French Twist by Celine Dupuy. A bath wrap is not a new idea, of course. I’ve seen them in my mom’s Lillian Vernon catalogs and the Hammacher Shl-whatever magazines you always see on airplanes.
This one, however, has several features that those did not. It (1) used up a stash of blue terry cloth I bought for another project that I didn’t know what to do with, (2) fits me really well, because I made it, (3) has straps and 2 buttons, because I wanted them, (4) has elastic sewn to the fabric in places so the fabric in the band never bunches up and (5) is the length I wanted, longer than one I could buy.
Excellent. I love it when a plan comes together.
P.S. I’m trying to make, or “complete” one project a week. Erk. It’s hard when you don’t have many hours to devote to it!
5 Comments
feel free to leave a few words of your own...Anna — Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 8:41 pm (link)Completing a project a week is hard when you have loads of time too! Good luck.
Paula Frey — Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 10:18 pm (link)Wow! Um my birthday is in August…….. That would be great for when you are putting on your make up, drowsily putting on coffee and procrastinating on going to bed. Plus, all the points in between, except work. I wouldn’t wear it to work. Not without heels and trench.
Jennifer — Thu Apr 1, 2010 at 8:41 am (link)It look really good, secure and comfortable.
Miriam — Tue Apr 6, 2010 at 10:44 pm (link)PJ, I’m pretty sure I have to see this with heels and a trench.
AVS, it’s damn near impossible, except when you have masochistic tendencies. I seem to have those.
Crafter by Night » Potholders and Bacon Fabric and more — Tue Apr 26, 2011 at 11:58 pm (link)[...] to emulate that for all my mittens and potholders. After all, I had leftover terry cloth from my bathroom wrap project, so why not? In addition to terry cloth there’s a layer of thick fleecy felt in between for [...]
