Keep your milk bottles cool in this practical and simple insulated box. Includes a handle to help you bring the milk in.
I love getting my milk delivered to my door every other day. It's more environmentally friendly as we are buying less plastic and the milk bottles are returned for reuse. However, I was getting frustrated at my milk being too warm in the summer and therefore going off really quickly. Although when I was a young child the milkman used to deliver very early in the morning, so it was lovely and fresh when you woke; these days milk deliveries tend to be done later night. Often our milkman (or is it milk person) delivers around midnight, meaning on warm summer nights it is not as fresh and cool as I would like.
Therefore I designed a simple insulated milk bottle carrier that can be left on your doorstep ready for your milkman to fill. If it's really warm, there is also space to place a freezer pack inside. It is wipe clean, with a hook and loop easy close lid and carry handle.
Your finished milk bottle carrier will measure 20 cm high by 18 cm wide and 17 cm deep (excluding the handle).
Note you will NOT be receiving the finished carrier itself. You can opt to purchase the essentials kit which includes all the materials you need to make the carrier excluding the outer fabric, so you can choose your own outer fabric. You also have the option of purchasing the fried egg outer fabric as well. I have priced this at 10% less than if you bought each item separately.
You will receive a download of the PDF pattern with the essentials kit. However, if you prefer, you can purchase printed instructions.
The essentials kit includes the following:
- Instructions PDF download
- 2 m Vlieseline Lamifix.
- Bosal thermal backed fleece - half a metre (62 inch wide).
- Thermolam compressed fleece - half a metre (90 cm wide).
- Heavy weight interfacing (Vlieseline H250) - 1/4 of a metre.
- 20 cm hook and loop tape.
Optional extras: Fried egg cotton fabric - half a metre; printed instructions.
You will also need the following:
Matching threads
- Fabric pen
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Fabric clips (if you don’t have any, just make sure you place your pins within the seam allowance).
- Sewing machine
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Optional: cutting mat and rotary cutter
- Walking foot (ideally).
