31 Days of Green Little Things: Make a Bottle Cooler

Welcome back to my 31 Days of Green Little Things!  This is my place to talk about the little things that I do to help the environment.

O.K., here it is.  This is the extremely hard and very complicated way I made the water bottle cooler you saw in yesterday's post. ;)

Start with an old sock, preferably one with a hole in the bottom, and a pair of scissors.  (Still with me?)

Next, cut off the heel.  

At this point I would "try it on" your water bottle to get it to the correct length.  I didn't do this the first time I used this one and it was about 2 inches too long.  (It looked more like a water bottle legwarmer than a koozie.)

If I were a talented seamstress, I might bind the raw edge.  Since I'm not, I didn't but haven't had any problems.  I've even washed it and it was fine.

There you go.  I told you it was difficult. ;)  Now you, too, have a way to carry your cold non-insulated water bottle without getting your hands cold or wet.  It definitely came in handy last summer when it was 100+ degrees for so long.  I assume this could also be used to keep hot things warm but I haven't tried that yet.   

If you have any easy repurposed projects, please post them in the comments.  I'm always interested in simple projects. 

Peace,

Stacey

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