Caravan Water Box Cover

Friends of ours bought themselves a Motor-home which they use when travelling. they prefer to use boxed water when out and about but they didn't like the look of the water box sitting on one of the benches. So, knowing that I sew and do patchwork they asked if I would make them a cover for their boxed water. They bought the fabric - a Duck weave with suitable motifs printed on it. They loved the fabric - mind you I like the printing on the fabric but Duck weave is not really what I'd call patchwork-friendly to work with. for starters it frays like billy-o!

Now, one would think "sure, that'd be easy"! But did you know that every brand of boxed water is actually a different size and sometimes a different shape than their rivals? And some have their spout on the right, others on the left, and others it's in the middle! So answers needed to be sought from the customers. Which brands are they most likely to buy?

The settled on their preferred brand and away we went! I suggested that in the event they can't purchase their preferred brand that how they can get around it is to remove the bladder from each box and swap them over - it's easy enough to swivel a bladder around so that it lines up with the original hole.

But wait, there's more... could we have some placemats, as well?

And oh! How about a table runner? Sadly, I forgot to take a photo of the finished table runner, so this is it, while I was hand-stitching the binding on... As you can see, Patched the 4 colours of the placemat bindings together for this little number.