 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. I have been playing around with my Cricut Maker again. I was really wanting to figure out how to make my own koozies, and I went online and was really disappointed with the selection of koozie tutorials out there. So I set off to come up with my own. I think that I came up with something that's very reminiscent of what you would find in a store, say a case fade, or a C wonder, or any of those types of stores that combine the practicality of a koozie, and also really cute too. I don't want it to just be plain and boring. So what I came up with is something a little bit like this, look familiar. Now I can match my koozie to my dress, which is really special, you all know. A lot of times it was just like something that wrapped around the can and then velcroed, horrible, buttoned. I was not feeling the button. I wanted something that was self-contained just like you'd find in the store, you know what I mean? So I came up with a little design that included the bottom, and then I also figured out how to include the By Annie Soft and Stable. I am going to have a video for you guys in a couple of days where I made a bag using that, and I'm telling you that stuff is amazing. I truly love it. So I was able to incorporate it into here as well to make a foam koozie, but it also has insole bright in it, which means it'll keep it colder, and it is not flimsy, wimpy, anything, and it's really cute. So this is just the basic design. This is what I'm going to walk you through how to sew in the tutorial, but I also include in design space where you go get the pattern for the actual koozie. I've also designed some iron-ons that you can also cut where you can make something like this that has like glitter stripes and a quote. I have polka dots. I walk you through how to embellish your koozie to make it more personal, make it cuter, make it look more expensive in a way, so you can do something like this too, or just plain jane it and just match your dress. But either way, let's get to the tutorial so you can see just how easy it is to whip one of these guys up. Okay, first up, you're going to need to load up your mat. I've got fabric there. I've got some iron on for the background as well as the quote. And then I've got some insul bright and the foam ready to go. So once you have all of your materials cut out, you are going to head to design space. This is what you're going to see when you get to the koozie project canvas that I've created. You can tell I've got four versions of the actual koozie here. These are your fabric main. This is your fabric lining. This is the insul bright. And then this is your foam or your soft and stable, you know, whatever it is that you're using. So you're going to need those four things no matter which version of the koozie you make. Even if you just make a plain fabric one with no embellishments, you're going to need these four here. Now this is where things start to get a little bit fun and obviously feel free to make your own. You don't have to just use these. But I've got our stripes here. And you can see that whenever you lay them on top of the fabric, they match up with the, you know, main body. This is the bottom of your koozie or where the bottom of your soda can will go. And so I thought instead of making individual stripes and having to lay them all out and have them be so exact, I would just make the maker cut out the vinyl exactly how I wanted the stripes laid out, like so. Same thing with our polka dot. You can tell that sits in there perfectly. So if you want to do like a background with iron on vinyl, you can choose from stripes or dots or make your own. It's really easy to do. Real quickly, I'll go to images and I almost, almost did this one with an anchor. Let's do anchors. Let's filter to single layer. And you can put in an anchor like this. My polka dots are half an inch. So you make it itty bitty. Here we can zoom in a little bit. And then you can either use the polka dots as a guide and just lay the anchors over the dots like so. That's probably how I would do it just because all the math is already done. And of course, you're going to want to make sure these are all in a straight line. But I would make a straight line. And then I would select all of the anchors. I would move, select all the anchors. I would weld them together. That makes them all one unit and not for individual anchors. And then I would duplicate. And then you've got four more and you start to offset them like so. Let's just move this out of the way. And then from here, if you want, you can just keep welding and duplicating, welding and duplicating. But again, you're going to want to do a little bit better of a job to make sure they're all in line. I'm just kind of eyeballing it here. So you see now we have a cute little section of anchors. And then you weld and duplicate again. And you line up the bottom portion with the bottom portion here. So one and so forth. And now you have a cute little section of anchors. You can do I think it'd be really cute with hearts. I think it'd be really cute with sailboats. You could really just kind of go crazy here with whatever background you want to use. So choose from those. I'll leave the anchors in here for you guys, since it's already here. And then on top of the background layer, oh, I need another row. I'll get to that. On top of the background layer, you can add a quote. I came up with three that kind of relate to water here, because that's what I drink out of my cozy. I don't actually, well, I don't drink alcohol ever. And I don't drink soda ever. I know it seems pretty lame. But I really love sparkling water. And so I buy sparkling, I always have it. So that's why I did little water quotes here. You can do stuff about sewing or, you know, anything you want. But I have three quotes here that you guys can choose from if you want to just use what I've done. And so when you like, let's say we were doing the stripes, obviously this would be up here like so. And then it'll get layered like this whenever you actually, you know, after you got everything cut out and you're going to use the easy press, I'll show you all of these steps. But that's kind of how it will look. One side will have a quote and one side won't. If you want both sides to have a quote, obviously be sure to include two quotes whenever you cut, when you start the cutting. So that's what I'm going to show you how to do now. I just wanted to kind of give you a lay of the land, what you're looking at. I have it all here, all in one place, all on one canvas for you. And this is how you're going to pick and choose your design for your project. So like I said, you need all of the actual cozy shape. So all four of these are going to stay. We are going to assume that we want to do polka dots. So we have polka dots here. That means we do not want anchors. So you click the little eyeball and the anchors go away. And then you click the little eyeball for the stripes and the stripes go away. So now all we have for background is our polka dots. And then we want to do, let's just do the hydrate quote. Or actually let's do this, anything's possible quote. So now we want to keep that one open, but we want to close this guy and we want to close hydrate. Okay, so now that we've got exactly the design that we want with all the different designs for each material, we are going to click make it. And it is going to sort all of this by material, simply because I have assigned a color to each type of material. So the first one is going to be your main fabric. I'm using like a twill or, you know, sort of close to canvas for this one. So we would click continue from here. It's going to find my machine and it's going to prompt me to select a material. We can browse all materials and go to fabric and then choose like canvas or it's, I think it might even be a twill so we could choose denim. You know, you just want to choose whatever fabric makes the most sense for whatever you're using. And then you would click continue and it would prompt you to, you know, load the mat into the machine and start the cutting process for this specific mat. When that one's done, then you're going to come over to this one. For this one, you're going to select in sole bright, which is here already in the options for you. Then you're going to be prompted to load that mat and cut that one. Then for this one, we are going to select iron on because that is an iron on material. Same thing for the quote, but we do want to make sure that the quote is mirrored so that whenever you lay it on top of your fabric, it, you know, reads the right way. And then this final one, we are going to assign that what they call flex foam. So that's already in the system as well as like a preset. So first things first, we're going to start with the fabric and go through the list and I will show you a time lapse of our cutting. It's kind of my favorite part. So we've got all of our materials cut out. That's our polka dot. This is our little quote. We've got the soft and stable. Look at this. Cool. Just comes right off. And now we have, this is our pattern piece for the koozie itself. This is the insole bright. And then finally we have now that we have all materials cut. If you're doing a design like I'm planning on doing with these polka dots, then we need to go ahead and weed our, so you get your little handy dandy weeding tool. It looks like this. Kind of like what they use at the dentist, if I'm being perfectly honest. And you come in on the, like there's a plastic coating on this side. So you don't weed out that. You weed out the actual vinyl itself and you just come in, get a little part started like that and then just peel the negative space away and you'll be left with all of your polka dots. Also a very satisfying process. Some things are harder to weed than others, obviously. Like our quote here has a lot of little cuts on it. So you want to really take your time with that. And you know, you have to get inside like the O and you have to get in the middle of all the A's. So you really want to take a lot of time whenever you're weeding out the quote. Okay. So now we need to adhere the polka dots to one side of our fabric. And so you simply lay out your fabric, lay out your dots. First of all, how cute is this golden pink together? Oh my gosh, so cute. And then you need to follow the instructions for the iron on to press or to heat this and bond it to your fabric. I am going to be using my EasyPress. For the EasyPress, there is this handy dandy reference chart. So I am using a hundred percent cotton, but it's more like a canvas. So I'm going to go over here to the canvas section. And this is metallic iron on. So I'm going to set it to 270 degrees. And I'm going to press, you know, the entire surface for 40 seconds, flip it over and then do it for half that time for 20 seconds. Okay. Now the metallic iron on needs to cool completely before you can peel the backing away. So I'm going to leave that to set on the EasyPress pad and just completely cool. If you want to see here's what the stripes look like. And this one I used the glitter iron on. Isn't that so pretty? So that's what the stripes look like. I did end up, after I made this prototype, I did end up widening the stripes so they will go all the way to the edge. But that's kind of what the stripe looks like. And then I cut out a version that is not going to have any iron on on it. I'm going to make this one lace up the sides with a little pink ribbon. It's going to be really cute. And then this is the one that we are going to make. This is going to be completely plain. This is your kind of like base basic cozy with no embellishments. Okay, here we have all of our pieces to make just the basic cozy with no embellishments. I am going to attach the lining to the foam. And I'm going to do that by doing kind of like a little bit of a quilting method. I need the foam to kind of be smushed down a little bit. That's a technical term. So I'm going to do half inch stripes. I call them stripes, but really it's just a basting stitch set apart half an inch from each other. We need the foam to stay in place and not have the fabric shift around. So I really like to use Wonder Clips for this. Pins can be a little bit hard to get through all of the foam. So yeah, so I'm going to do half inch basting stitch vertically down the lining of the fabric with the foam. And then for the insul bright, I am going to just attach it with an edge stitch. I'm going to go around one eighth of an inch around all of the edges, including the circle. Okay, so now we have our foam attached to our lining. You can see kind of all the quilting lines there. And this is all one really super sturdy piece now. And this is our insul bright attached to the main side of our fabric at one eighth inch. So here are two pieces. You have a couple options here depending on how comfortable you are with your serger. You can either surge around all of the edges, which is what I am going to do. It's a little bit wonky and a little bit difficult to do. More helpful if you turn the knife off so that it's not actually cutting any fabric. You're not trimming anything away anyways because you're just searching the very edge of it. So if you're nervous, try it without the knife on. But if you're super nervous and you don't want to try that at all, that's fine. You can do a zigzag stitch on your machine. Same way coming here, pivoting and turning. Or you can surge around these three edges, which is pretty easy to do since they're straight and kind of away from everything. And then zigzag this part. Just do what you're comfortable. But what we're trying to do is finish off all of these raw edges because nothing is going to be sewn right sides together. The edges are not encased in a seam or anything like that. This is like a raw deal. So we want to try and get these as clean and finished looking as possible. Okay, the surging is done. You can tell I surged around all the edges. It can be done. You just really, really have to take your time. What I ended up doing was surging with the knife on, on these three edges on all four squares. And then I would turn the knife off and did from like, I put it in the machine like this and then surged from here down and then put the needles down right here and surged from here down and then flipped it over and did from here to the circle and then from the circle out and then kind of wedged it in there and started the surging right where the circle starts and just worked my way around each of the circles. So it can be done. You have to be a little bit patient and a little bit confident, but it can be done either way. Okay. So now we have our lining and our main fabric and we need to attach them together. So we're going to place them wrong sides together like so. And then we are going to stitch around all of the edges on our regular machine. Okay, here we are. We have our Cousy ball attached to the lining, the main attached to the lining. Now we are going to turn up both of the squares like so, making a flat part for the base of the soda can or the water bottle. And then now we need to attach these sides in order to make, you know, a round Cousy. So in order to do that, you do one side like so. You're kind of layering the surged edges over each other like so. And then pinning them together. What we're going to end up doing is zigzagging all down this edge to attach these two pieces together. So I just put two pins in there. Obviously make sure they're lined up nice and neat. And zig put this through the machine flat like this and keep the little doodad out of the way. And then now you can zigzag all the way down this straight line. Okay, so here is what we've got. We've got this side all zigzagged, completely secure. And then this side is completely open. So I like to finish the top edge of the Cousy here just to give it a little bit more of a polished look. I mean, I think that the surging on the side and even on the bottom is kind of okay and not that noticeable. But I think along the top it really is noticeable. So I like to just use your basic bias tape. You can use purchased bias tape. This is double fold extra wide. I think that that looks best along the edge. Let me show you like so. You can get an idea of what that would look like. Really sharp, really nice. Or you can make your own if you'd like to as well. I would need to press this one and run it through my bias maker machine. But you can get an idea of what that would look like. You could use the cell fabric to make your bias tape. You can use contrasting fabric. Really kind of just whatever you feel like doing. I think I'm going to do this contrast one just to give it a little bit of dimension. I thought initially I was going to use the yellow, but it kind of just blends in too much. So I like the contrast of this black. So you just apply the bias tape like you would anything else. You put the, is it the shorter end on? Yeah. You put the shorter end of the bias tape raw edges together. Sew this all the way around the edge. It should be nice and easy to do since this pretty much lays out completely flat. And then you fold it along both of the folds. And then stitch in the ditch all the way around. Okay, so there we go. Our bias binding has finished off the top edge. I think it looks really great and very fancy if I do say so myself. So I have turned this wrong side out so that I can place the raw edges right sides together. Then you are going to stitch all along this edge. I would do it a couple of times and then turn it right sides out. And when you do that, you will have your little coosie. And there you have it. This is our little insulated coosie that we made. I can tell you guys that this is firm. This is not floppy at all. This is tight, obviously. Let me push from the bottom. It is a pretty much a foam coosie wrapped in fabric. It holds itself up. Coincidentally, it's also a really great pencil holder if you need one of those on hand and you don't have a drink. You are going to have a kind of exposed seam inside if that bothers you. By all means, you know, hand stitch that down. It's really hard to get this tube into a machine. You could also do the same thing that we did on this side and overlap the edges and then hand stitch them that way. But this is certainly quick and dirty and kind of like the easiest way to do it. Another option which I am going to do with my red and pink fabric is so you have this side that is zigzagged down and then instead of overlapping at all, you just create some very small buttonholes and then feed ribbon through the buttonholes to create like a little lace-up deal like this. I think this would be adorable if you did like ballet slipper decal or like I love dance. You could even do like brown fabric maybe with footballs on it and then do twill tape and tie it off in a knot, not a bow, and it would look a little bit like a football seam. I think that would be really cute. Some other options would be to add like a ruffle all along this edge or maybe even a ruffle in this seam. That would be adorable. This base pattern really is so great because you can embellish it in so many ways, either with trimmings or how cute would like fringe trim or pom pom trim be right here. Or you can embellish it with your Cricut. Here's what it would look like if you did our little quote with the glitter. Anything's possible with a little lipstick and sparkling water with the glitter iron on or you saw a sneak peek at our polka dots. Here's kind of what the polka dots would look like. Very Kate Spade if I do say so myself. So really the options are endless. Once you get kind of the base idea, the basic idea of how to make this cozy, the world is your oyster. And there you have it. It's really not as hard as it seems. It took a little bit of like brain power to sort out some of those details, but in the end I think that it's a really great product. I think that I could sell these and people would never know the difference that I'm doing it at home on a home machine with the pattern that I made up by myself. And as I was kind of going over there at the very end, there are a ton of additional ways that you can embellish your cozy. So I suggested a few, but I want to hear some ideas from you guys too. So let me know what kind of ideas you have to spruce up your cozy either using iron on from Cricut, not using the Cricut machine at all, using some kind of extra fabric, maybe felt, I don't know. Let me know what you guys' ideas are, what you picture, and I want to try and make a whole bunch of these because they're just so cute and so darn easy to make. So I hope you guys really enjoyed this tutorial and that you'll get out there and start making some coosies. So everything you need is going to be in the description box below. And until next time, that's going to do it. See you all next time. Bye.