I feel like I was born in the wrong country. Does anyone else feel that way. I don't know maybe it is just me. I feel like I am British at heart. I watch more BBC shows than I do American made shows. I love the British original programs more than the American versions (The Office being the main one).
I also love tea! There is a cute little British shop in Leavenworth, KS that I adore. It has great loose leaf tea and some crisps and souvenirs (although no Cornetto sadly). I always have loose leaf tea in the house and love drinking out of cute vintage tea cups. I try to have biscuits in the house for when guests come over.
My daughter chose to have a tea party-birthday party this past March (the tea lover inside me was pretty excited). I decided to pick up some cute, but inexpensive, tea cups for the kids (I didn't want to risk them breaking my good cups). I now have a few too many tea cups than my small cupboards can handle. I was wondering what I could do with them when I came up with today's DIY.
Today's tutorial is a no-sew project! Woo hoo for all of you who are terrified of sewing machines. The supplies are simple and, if you do not own them already, are very cheap to aquire.
Supplies needed:
- Glue gun and glue
- scissors
- tea cup
- scrap fabric
- polyfill (or something simliar for stuffing)
Step 1: Your first step is optional, iron your fabric. I chose to skip this step. My fabric was not badly wrinkled.
Step 2: (Plug in your glue gun) Cut your fabric. Place your tea cup upside down on your fabric. You want to position to to where you have 1-2" of fabric outside of the rim of your tea cup. Cut your circle. Don't worry if it is not perfect, no one will see this.
Step 3: Glue a good amount of your hot glue around the top edge of half of your tea cup. Do this quickly, you do not want your glue to dry before you start your next step.
Step 4: Place half of your fabric on the glue, again do worry about it being perfect. This is to keep your fabric in place to make it easier to stuff. (It looks like some fun super hero. Super Tea!)
Step 5: Stuff! I put enough stuffing in my cup to where it just came over the top. If I were to do it over again, I would have put even more.
Step 6: This is the trickiest part of it all. You are going to want to apply glue to the remainder of your cup's rim without glueing the stuffing. Work your fabric in to the cup. Remember, it is just hot glue. You can always pull the fabric off once it dries and reapply if necessary. Don't worry if you mess up!
Step 7: Place a bead of glue all around the top inside edge of your tea cup and secure your fabric. This is to make sure that everything is in place. Really, it is just for aesthetics. After securing my fabric down I noticed some uneven areas and unsightly bumps. Adding the extra bead of glue helps with this. You can do some fine tuning on your fabric.
You now have your own, one of a kind, tea cup pin cushion. Don't forget to check out some thrift stores if you do not own a tea cup to use for this project. There are some wonderful patterns at thrift stores. It doesn't matter if the inside of the cup is stained either, no one will be seeing it anyway!
Happy making!
(P.S.-these make GREAT gifts!)
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