My fabric stash is an extremely generous place; always filled with things that I didn’t even know that I had. The other day I came across a scrap of white high-pile faux fur that was just wide enough to make a small muff. The piece wasn’t big enough for much else, and who doesn’t want a white muff for formal winter occasions? It’s the perfect time of year for such a thing and I embrace the romanticism and impracticality surrounding such an accessory.
That being said a muff would be a less cumbersome thing to tote about if it were also a purse. Since it is such a simple thing to do, I gave my muff a hidden pocket. It is big enough to hold my cell phone or a money clip, but not so big that small items would be lost. The pocket square is lined with white polyester satin which my fabric stash also offered up to me upon request.
The muff itself has faux fur on the inside and the outside, the better to keep my fingers warm with.
Making your own is simple. All you need is a rectangle of faux fur double the final width of the muff and as long as the final circumference, big enough to fit both of your human hands snug. You fold the fur right-sides together into a tube that is now one-final-width wide, stitch the seam, and turn the tube. Now you have fur on two sides of a very tall tube. Now fold the fur again the other direction, sitch, and turn the tube again. All done! If you want a pocket, you have to attach pocket squares to opposite sides of the rectangle right-sides-together before making your first fold, and incorporate the pockets into your first seam so that the pocket opening ends up on one side of the muff.
