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To make your family drink strong aromatic tea, you need to brew it correctly. This will help the heating pad for the teapot. There are many different ideas for tailoring and design. For example, you can make a heating pad in the form of a funny cat.

funny cat heating pad


For work you will need: fleece of yellow, orange, green, black, white and pink colors, cotton fabric, threads, scissors, needle, paper, felt-tip pen.

You will need to work



Operating procedure.
- First you need to make a pattern. To do this, measure the height and width of the kettle. Draw a pattern on paper, the width of which should equal the width of the teapot times 1.5, and the height - the height of the teapot plus 6 centimeters.
For example, if the width of the teapot is 22 centimeters, then the width of the pattern should be 22 x 1.5 = 33 centimeters. If the height of the kettle is 20 centimeters, then the height of the pattern: 20 + 6 = 26 centimeters. This will be the pattern of the main part.
Cut the pattern of the main part from paper. Put it on the fabric and circle it with a felt-tip pen.

circle with felt-tip pen


Cut two pieces of yellow fleece (for the outside of the heating pad).

Cut two parts


On one of the main parts cut out of yellow fleece, draw a muzzle. To do this, cut out parts for eyes from colored shreds: two parts in white, green and black. And pink fleece cut nose.

cut nose


Carefully sew parts on the sewing machine with a zig-zag stitch or manually with a buttonhole stitch.

sew on details


Decorate the cheeks with pink threads, for this, embroider a strip down from the sock about 3 cm long.

draw cheeks


Cut four triangles from the orange fleece - these will be the ears of the cat.

four triangles


Sew them in pairs from two sides, leave one side unstitched. Turn out the ears.

Sew them in pairs


Fold the face part with the muzzle with the other main part made of fleece and sew it together, carefully stitching the ears. Turn out.

Turn and sew


Cut the two main parts from cotton fabric (for the inside of the heating pad).

Cut two main parts


Sew the inside of the heating pad. To do this, fold the parts cut out of cotton with the front sides and carefully sew along the edge with a lowercase seam manually, or sew on a sewing machine.

sew on a sewing machine


Insert the inner part of the heating pad into the outer part and sew along the edge, leaving a small area un sewn.

Insert the inside of the heating pad


Unscrew heating pad through unwired section. Sew the unstitched hole carefully by hand.

Unstitched hole


The hot water bottle is ready, it will help you make tea.

Kettle Warmer


And to make it tasty and aromatic, you need to remember a few rules for brewing it.These are the rules:
- Boil water.
- Prepare a teapot. Before pouring tea leaves, rinse it with hot water.
- Fill the tea leaves with a dry spoon.
- Pour tea leaves with hot water to 1/3 of the kettle and leave for two minutes.
- Pour hot water into the kettle to the top and cover with a heating pad to brew tea. Let it brew for 3-5 minutes.
Have a nice tea party!

An amusing kitty hot-water bottle made by yourself will not only help you make delicious tea, but every morning will cheer up your whole family.
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