My sister asked me a while ago to knit a tea cosy for her, after seeing one that she liked in Jane Brocket’s fantastic The Gentle Art of Domesticity
. A quick flick through my various knitting books found a perfect pattern for a 1940s style cosy in I Love Knitting
and the search began to find the perfect yarn colours online.
. A quick flick through my various knitting books found a perfect pattern for a 1940s style cosy in I Love Knitting and the search began to find the perfect yarn colours online.
The Rowan website provided colour charts and a decision was made. Shopping list in hand I went off to my local John Lewis. I managed to find the Calmer in one of the shades I needed, but struggled a bit with the Carnation shade. Luckily their clearance sale was on at the time and a quick rummage in one of the bargain bins produced the second ball that I required, and even better still this one was half price!
Of course, not all gifts need to be homemade. If you have the budget then the sky is the limit when it comes to extravagant tea related gifts and there are plenty of silver tea caddies out there to choose from.
It’s taken me a while to finish off the other project that was utilising my 5mm needles, but this week I was finally able to cast on the tea cosy. At the end of the first couple of rows I finally clicked as to what it was that the colours kept reminding me of – battenberg cake! I can’t pretend that my baking skills are up to making my own cake, so Mr Kipling helped out with the props for this photo.
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