Hot Water Bottle Cover Kit by Marie Wallin

Marie Wallin's Winter Hot Water Bottle Cover is a cute and pretty design, simple enough for the novice Fairisle knitter to complete. It is knitted in the round with the addition of a very simple crochet drawstring including crochet flowers as decoration. Pom poms can be added instead of the flowers, if preferred.

Kit Contents: The kit includes 6 x 25g balls of Marie Wallin British Breeds yarn and the detailed high quality printed pattern – all presented in a lovely Marie Wallin calico kit bag.

Knitting Needle requirement (not included in kit): 3.25mm (UK10/US 3) needles, either DPNs or fixed circulars of 40cm and 30cm ling with short tips. 

The completed hot water bottle cover measures 20cm wide x 32 cm long (7.75 ins x 12.5 ins) and will fit a standard size hot water bottle.

More about Marie Wallin's British Breeds Yarn

British Breeds took two years to develop into the beautiful, soft, bouncy 4 ply yarn that it is today. Worsted spun in Devon by John Arbon Mill, British Breeds is available in 26 glorious colours.

British Breeds is made from four different British sheep breeds. The wool fibre from each breed adds a certain characteristic to the yarn; Bluefaced Leicester adds the beautiful softness, Exmoor Horn adds the softness too but this sheep produces a white fleece therefore adding a ‘cleaness’ to the blended tops making for more successful dyeing. Romney adds the strength and slight lustre and Zwartbles adds the bounce or springiness. To produce the yarn, the Bluefaced Leicester, Exmoor Horn and Romney wool fibres are first blended together and then dyed into various coloured tops. These coloured tops are then blended together using a ‘recipe’ to create each of the 26 base colours. Each colour base is then blended with the undyed Zwartbles fibre creating the amazing mélange effect. Once the yarn is spun it is sent to Edward Hill’s Ltd in Bradford to be steam relaxed and balled into 25g balls. The steam finishing ‘opens up’ the yarn creating the full, light appearance and handle.

Care:  To care for your British Breeds garment, please hand wash carefully using a mild, natural liquid soap detergent in lukewarm water. Once washed, ensure that as much water as possible is extracted from the garment before drying. This can be done by squeezing the garment between two towels. Reshape the garment whilst damp and allow to air dry naturally. 

It is worth noting that 100% wool garments require minimal washing, wool fibre is naturally self-cleaning! To freshen up your knitwear, just hang on a line outside to ‘air’, any stains can be spot cleaned