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Take your tea bags with you in organised style!
A unique project I dreamed up the other day when thinking:

"what am I going to put my tea bag in"!?

Posted by Veenessar from Ipswich, England, United Kingdom • Published 26th March 2010 • See Veenessar's 19 projects »

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Step 1
* First draw and cut out a 7.5 x 21cm (3 x 8inch) rectangle out of your felt.

* Repeat this on 4 different felt colours.

**How many you cut out is up to you, but the more you cut out the more 'pockets' you will have at the end.
I only wanted 4, so only cut out 4 rectangles from 4 different colours.
Step 2
* Fold the bottom of the rectangle up 8.5 cm/3.5 inch and pin.

This will be your pocket!

* Repeat this step on all 4 pockets.
Step 3
I then cut out a crescent shape at the top of the piece that you just folded up.
(see picture)

This makes it easier to remove the teabag :D

Repeat this on all 'pockets'
Step 4
I then embroidered some names of the fronts of my 'pockets'

*Green
*Nettle
*Fruit
*XT

('XT' in love of X files- as in 'unknown tea')
Step 5
Then stitch the sides of the 'pocket'

I used blanket stitch and used same thread as I used to stitch the name.
Step 6
Stitch all the pockets together by pinning them and just stitching whip stitch or a simple binding stitch used for books.

You can just leave the pockets looking like this is you prefer.

For the front cover I cut some more felt measuring 8.5 x 10.5 cm (3.5 x 4.4 Inches)
Step 7
I then pinned the front and back cover to the pockets and sewed the binding stitch .

Be sure to go though all of the layers- this will make the binding strong.

I started 1/4 from the top then went up then down the spine. This makes the binding stronger also.

As I said before you could use a simple whip stitch to link all of the layers.
Step 8
Once all stitched together, sew whatever you want on the front cover.
Step 9
Then fill up with Tea bags and you're ready to go!