Tea Cosy, specimen 1

Today I’m not wearing anything particularly exciting, so here instead is the tea cosy I gave my friend J yesterday for a belated birthday present.  It is from Loani Prior’s excellent book “Wild Tea Cosies” which I saw in Calico and Ivy and bought for myself as a present.  I made quite a few of these tea cosies in various designs and colours and gave them all away as gifts, so a new goal I’ve set for myself is to hunt them down and photograph them in their new natural surroundings for this blog.  Be that my friends’ kitchens, or bottom drawers, wherever they now reside.  As well as documenting my wardrobe.
Looking back over my blog I can see it’s turned into a bit of a daily outfit post, which wasn’t it’s original intention.  Like the authors of books often complain that their lead character won’t behave as planned but develop a mind of their own, this blog is taking on it’s own character.  Hmmm.  Have to keep on top of this.
I’ve loved this tea cosy book; the only drawback is the abundance of designs that are purely for crochet, which I didn’t notice at first flip-through before whimsically purchasing.  I. Don’t. Like. Crochet.  I can tolerate it for very short stretches, but it’s really not my cup of tea (ha ha!)
J’s tea cosy here is the Roly Poly one from the book, which has small crocheted balls on the top, a manageable amount of crochet for me.  The rest is knitted.  It is actually lined!  With a whole separate knitted lining!  Perhaps to keep that teapot well and truly insulated.
The label (right) sewn inside the cosy is from a rubber stamp given to me by my Monday morning gals several years ago for a birthday gift, which gave me the name for this blog and which I now use for fun labels to attach to the things I make.  The silver spoon in the picture above was made by my grandmother, and has my maiden name initials in relief on the handle.

Other details:
Silver spoon; made by my grandmother
China; all from op shops or secondhand shops