China keeper

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Protect your favourite china. See the instructions on how to make the right size keeper for your china.

Final Result

Materials

• 80cm x 112cm printed cotton fabric
• 80cm x 112cm quilted padded calico
• Gütermann sewing thread to match printed fabric
• 51cm zipper in colour to match printed fabric
• sewing machine
• scissors
• tape measure
• pins
• pencil
• 8 x felt squares

Step 1

From both the cotton fabric and quilted padded calico, cut the following pieces:
A - cut two 92cm wide x 15cm high
B - cut two 92cm wide x 5cm high
C - cut two circles with a 32cm diameter.

Step 2

With wrong sides together, stitch each printed cotton fabric piece to its matching quilted padded calico piece 5mm in from raw edge.

Step 3

With right sides together, pin piece B to piece A aligning top long edge. Sew in 21cm from each side seam with a 1.5cm seam allowance, leaving a gap in the middle for the zipper. Press seam open. Sew in zipper into gap in seam using a zipper foot.

Step 4

With right sides facing, sew the two shorter ends together with a 1.5cm seam allowance, to form a loop. Trim and neaten seam either by overlocking or using a zigzag stitch. Using a 1.5cm seam allowance, right sides together, sew one piece C to the bottom edge of the zippered fabric loop. Clip, trim and neaten seam as in previous step.

Step 5

Making sure zipper is unzipped (for turning through), pin then sew the remaining piece C to the top edge of fabric loop. Clip, trim and neaten seam. Turn right side out and press seams.

Step 6

Felt plate dividers

Cut a 24cm diameter circle from each felt square. Measurements for side plate holder 20cm diameter.

Cut the following pieces:
A - cut two 71cm wide x 10cm high
B - cut two 71cm wide x 5cm high
C - cut two circles with a 25cm diameter

Step 7

To calculate for other sizes: For top and bottom circles add 5cm to plate/bowl diameter. For long side piece add 5cm to plate/bowl circumference for width and 6cm to the total of stacked plates/bowls for height.