This is the fourteenth and final tea cosy I have to show you. This one was for J, and she keeps chooks, thus the three on top. The colouring is also slightly different from the previous chook one I made for our mutual friend C. J has the most divine garden and house filled with antique bits and pieces and every corner is a picture to gladden the heart of a photography freak. She has things like old farming boots, filled with plants and sitting on an old rusty iron table in a leafy corner of the garden; a discarded bike leans casually under a tree; an ornate gate leans against another tree, forming the backrest to a bench; the verandah is hung with quaint birdcages, paint a-peeling, some with bird ornaments perched inside. There is even a rusty jalopy parked in one corner, getting overgrown… She has pet alpacas! I regret deeply I didn’t have my camera when I visited…
She took this picture for me of the cosy with one of her antique finds, a tea caddy. She sent me about six pictures of the cosy, each with cuter and cuter accessories alongside and it was tough for me to narrow the picture choice down to just one! but here it is.
The base is again the base for RolyPoly, from Wild Tea Cosies by Loani Prior, but the chooks are my own design.
Here is the tea cosy I made for my mother-in-law for her birthday last year. She loves the beach and spends a lot of time walking and swimming on the beach, so I took the soft blues and browns of the seaside for inspiration. This tea cosy is my own design, just cast on what seemed like a good number of stitches and started knitting, winging the design. I love the bobbly yarn I found for the top-knot, it reminds me of that coastal grass that we call “pussy-tails” in WA because the flowers look tiny miniature fluffy cat-tails.
