An award-winning tea cosy!
I won the creative tea cosy category at my local show! I didn’t even think I’d place because the tea cosies are always amazing so huge ego boost, I will be riding this high for a while 🤣
The overarching theme was orchard-related and I took inspo from the Carmen Miranda tea cosy by iconic cosy-maker Loani Prior, but went off script pretty immediately. I wanted it to look like a pile of fruit on a mossy tree stump, so I added thrums for colour variation and for extra insulation.
The fruits are free patterns from Ravelry (below) and the leaves were just freestyled with increases and decreases because I couldn’t find a shape I liked.
Patterns:
🪵 Main - partially the Carmen Miranda by Loani Prior, from Wild Tea Cosies book
🍎 Apple pattern - Apple of my eye by Abigail Horsfall https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/apple-of-my-eye
🍐 Pear pattern - Pear by Linda Dawkins https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pear-9
🍓 Raspberries pattern - Raspberries by Yun Jeong https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/raspberriesyunique-garden
Yarn:
- Cleckheaton country 8ply (log)
- Merino Magic Medley 8ply (fruit & leaves)
- Sally Ridgway Forest Collection Shetland Wool Sliver (for thrumming)