look what i made!
okay, confession time in addition to being a beer geek i am also a sewing geek my two loves are two crafts! and what could better combine my two loves than sewing something beery? but besides a beer cozy, what could i possibly sew that's beery? well, i'm glad you asked! i made hops pillow sachets! (say what?) little cotton sachets that look like pillows, but instead of stuffing, they contain hops pellets. hops are an old folk remedy for insomnia so i figured i'd make little pillows full of hops for the insomniacs to sniff when they're having trouble sleeping. i will be selling my lovely little hops pillow sachets at britannia community centre's "artful sunday" this very sunday! i began by sewing plain white squares, 3" x 3" then stuffed them with hops pellets i put each hops pillow into a "pillowcase" and top-stitched around the edges and approximately one inch in from the edge to create a pillow effect come one, ...