Bottle Cover

A weekend at a larp and a new bottle require a new bottle cover. The new bottle was a lot larger than previous bottles and would not work for it’s intended purpose. I did base the design in part on my previous version Invisible Plastic.

After the hat I still had some more of the wool left over and figured it would work as a more or less waterproof cover. I cut out a circle, added some sides and a hanging loop. I needed to attach to pieces together to form a large enough rectangle for the sides. Then I needed to figure out how to close the thing. I the end, I opened up the front a little and keep the flaps to close over each other. Then I added another button to the front and a semi-decorative closure in a vague leaf shape.

I made it somewhat too big by accident and decided to sew an additional seam at the front to make sure it was not too loose. This also allowed me to open up part of the piecing on the front and create a miniature pocket. For proof I added a brownie spoon, it will probably hold a pencil while in action. (note from after the event, yep, it did)

Invisible Plastic

The gift!

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Can you guess what it is?

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And now? Well, find the answer below!

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It is a… plastic bottle carrier, made from faux leather and faux suede. It is meant to be worn on a belt, that’s what the leather bit is for, with a plastic bottle inside (see below for the inside view). At some high fantasy larps it is preferred to have as little ‘now’ stuff showing as possible. But people have to drink and I decided at some point in the past that I needed a bottle cover, which I thought I wrote about, but I cannot find it anymore. However, you can admire mine below.

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The difference between these two is that mine is cross stitched and the other one is ladder stitched (?). Another difference is in the button, the present has a purple button, mine a woody coloured one. Mine has a cuff while the other folds over. This means that they’ll never be mixed up, and I even have another set of the fabrics laying in my house so I can make another one, if needed.

He seemed to like it when I gave it to him. I enjoyed making it, as it was part of my train journey one day and quite entertaining to figure out how to get it to work. So who knows, maybe another one is in the future.