Contains:
- As with all my patterns, as a gift to you, included in your instant downloadable pattern is a print-to-cut out & make matching envelop, to store your pattern
Materials you need at home:
- What you will need to get started , Yarn The original tea cosy was worked using Stylecraft DK , TEA COSY 50g DK - BROWN or color of your choice , FLOWERS 50g 4ply - RED (or color of your choice) & small amount of DARK contrast RED (for stamen) , LEAVES 50g GREEN & DARK GREEN , BEE Oddments of WHITE, YELLOW & DARK BROWN or BLACK , , - Tools 3mm(US C/D, UK 11) & 3.5mm(US E/4 UK 9) Crochet hooks , - 3mm(US C/D 2/3, UK 11) knitting needles (for bee) , - Yarn Needle & Scissors , - Small amount of synthetic toy stuffing
Is it real, is it not?
Make this near realistic Geranium Tea Cosy to fit a 4-6-cup teapot (The size of the tea pot you see in the image is: 15cm(6ins) high x 47cm(18 1/2ins) round the full diameter of the center of the tea pot belly)
Not only make it for yourself, but what a lovely birthday or special gift to someone, especially if they have everything
- All crochet, except for the bee, which is knitted (purl/knit)
- Knitted on the flat with single pointed needles
- American terminology with metric measurements
TBeeCosy and ByHookandBy Needle
I love love love creating my own designs with yarn, combining various techniques to achieve "the look". Like mixing knitting and crochet. (Always use only single-pointed knitting needles) I want everyone to be able to create my designs, so I love the challenge of making designs that look complicated yet the average person can make them, i.e. keeping them simple as possible, yet looks difficult :)
Sometimes I start to make one thing, but as I go along my mind wanders into something else or I start with one color and just let myself go until I have completed something that never entered my mind in the first place! For my Fairy Mushroom Tea Cosy I first made the Cream Tea Cosy with the intent to make a white vanilla or white chocolate cake, only to find the next moment I had a sudden urge to make a mushroom tea cosy using just single pointed needles and to keep it as simple as possible, so that virtually anyone can do....
With all my patterns I have designed a special matching envelope which comes with the instant downloadable .pdf pattern/s when you purchase any of my patterns - with my love from the other side of the world, from me to you xxxx
This year I decided to separate my tea cosies, keeping them under the shop name TBeeCosy and the rest under the name of ByHookOrByNeedle. There is no separate shop, just the instructions logo will have one or the other