Earlier this month, while the ladies and I were out to lunch, “A” mentioned that she wanted to buy a teapot cosy – but that “J” talked her out of the purchase because it was too expensive – something like 30 Euros! In the process of the discussion, I said you know, for that, I could make you one – just give me the yarn. After some further discussion, a couple days later, I went and checked out patterns – and emailed a few to “A”. We both agreed on this one:
because it was fairly simple – but yet looked quite complex. I’ve never made a tea cosy before (in the USA we generally don’t have teapots quite like they do here in Ireland / UK where its actually a part of the culture) but I think it turned out quite fine – especially with my added touch of the flower. I made it out of scrap yarn that I had – a beautiful dark violet and pale green. What do you think? I’m thinking it looks a bit “basket” ish in these colors.
On a side note – this pattern had two new stitches for me – the Spike Double Crochet (pictured below) and the reverse single crochet (which blew my mind until I looked it up on youtube!). I always like it when I can add new stitches to the ones I already know.
Otherwise, Just wanted to send a shout out to “H” who let me borrow her teapot for the model & size testing since I don’t have one.
Oh – and one more thing – In the US, we spell it COZY, but being that this is for an Irish teapot – it’s the British spelling all the way – COSY!
