Contains:
- 6 page pattern
- Helpful photos to guide you
- Online Facebook Help Group
Materials you need at home:
- Stylecraft Special DK Cream
- Stylecraft Special DK Grass Green
- Stylecraft Special DK Citron
- Stylecraft Special DK Black
- Stylecraft Special DK White
- Stylecraft Special DK Buttermilk
If you love sheep you'll love the Swaledale Sheep tea cosy knitting pattern, it just sensational. What is really nice about the Swaledale is that the rams and the ewes have horns; lovely big curly horns.
I chose a lovely knitting stitch to represent their dense fleece, it's called bubble stitch and it gives a billowy effect, I think it makes the sheep look woolly and chunky. There is a video demonstrating the stitch on Youtube https://youtu.be/CqF2xnEx1hs
The eye patches of the sheep are worked in intarsia but only for a few rows just to achieve the patches for the eyes. The sheep has yellow cat safety eyes and they really look effective, especially against the black face.
The sheep looks as if its standing in a grassy field dotted with meadow flowers.
The Swaledale Sheep makes such a lovely and characterful tea cosy that's uplifting and heartwarming.
The 6 page knitting pattern contains lots of photos to help and guide you.
The pattern is knitted on two pins and is easy to follow.
The Swaledale Sheep tea cosy fits a medium sized teapot that covers a Teapot that holds 6 to 8 cups or 2 pints.
The pattern will be available for digital download as soon as you have completed purchase, so you could start knitting it very soon!
This product is the knitting pattern only; to knit your own Swaledale Sheep tea cosy.
Susan Cowper
I design and knit unique tea cosies. I really love designing exciting and unusual tea cosies, its great fun and people don’t mind having an over the top tea cosy. Plus they are a great talking point at tea time and make for brilliant knitting projects.
I have quite a following with regular customers who regularly buy my latest designs from my website TeaCosyFolk.co.uk
I have had a couple of patterns printed in the Simply Knitting Magazine, which is very exciting.