How to Make Fabric Koozie Cover
Fabric koozie covers can transform your plain or outdated neoprene koozies into personalized can covers that are perfect for any decor. You can use any fabric, including found fabrics like old jeans or T-shirts that have outgrown their usefulness but can be reborn as a koozie cover. Making a fabric koozie cover seems difficult at first, but with the right tools and instructions, you can transform your old koozies for the cost of the material, thread and a few other inexpensive items.
Things You'll Need
- 8 ½ by 11 inch paper
- Koozie
- Pen
- 12-inch ruler
- Scissors
- Fabric marking pencil
- Iron
- Thread
- Sewing machine or needle
- 20 inch length of ribbon or twine
- 1/2 inch wide Velcro
- Straight pins
Instructions
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Place a sheet of paper, horizontally, on a clean, dry worktable so one of the 11-inch sides is toward you.
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Center a koozie a half-inch from the lower edge of the paper. If you fold the paper in half before and create a crease, it's easy to find the center by eye.
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Trace the bottom circumference of the koozie onto the paper with a pen and then remove the koozie from the paper. Increase the circle by a half-inch at all points by drawing a new circle around the one you traced.
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Place the top edge of a 12-inch ruler at the top edge of the circle and draw a line from the right to left edge of the paper.
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Cut along the circular and horizontal line that you drew without cutting the circle off of the rectangular shape above it.
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Fit the paper pattern to the koozie by placing the circle under it and then wrapping the paper rectangle around the koozie. Increase or decrease the rectangular paper pattern by cutting it or taping additional paper to it until you have 1 inch of paper extending over the koozie top and 2 inches of overlapping paper around the koozie circumference.
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Place your paper pattern on a piece of fabric and trace along the edges of paper onto the fabric with a fabric marking pencil.
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Remove the paper pattern and cut along the lines on the fabric.
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Turn the outer circumference of the bottom circular shape in one quarter of an inch, except where the rectangular shape is connected to it, and iron it so that the quarter-inch section is flush against what will become the inside bottom of the fabric koozie cover.
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Turn the top edge of the rectangular section in a quarter of an inch and iron it flat.
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Turn the top edge in, again, a half-inch and iron it flat.
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Turn the left and right edges in one quarter of an inch and iron them flat.
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Turn the left and right edges in, again, three quarters of an inch and iron them flat.
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Sew the left and right side folded and ironed sections down one eighth of an inch from the inside and outside edges with a straight stitch on a sewing machine or by hand.
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Sew the top edge of the rectangular shape that you folded and ironed one eighth of inch from the top and bottom edge with a straight stitch on a sewing machine or by hand.
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Snip holes through the top layer of fabric, on the right side of the fabric, 1 1/2 inches in from the left and right sides within the top casing that was created by sewing the top and bottom edges of the folded section with scissors.
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Turn the cut edges in and hand stitch the edges of the opening to finish the holes you created.
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Thread a 20-inch length of ribbon or twine through one of the holes and out the other hole.
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Sew opposing lengths of 1half-inch Velcro to the right and left sides. Remember that one piece will have to be on the outside and one on the inside.
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Wrap the rectangular outside wall around the bottom circle and use straight pins to hold it to the quarter-inch section of fabric that you ironed down, leaving the overlapping section with the Velcro unpinned.
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Secure the side walls to the circle by sewing it one-eighth inch from the bottom around the pinned section.
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Tips & Warnings
You can add any other design elements that will further personalize the koozie cover, before or after sewing it.
