Mickle Knitting #2

Last year my dear Mother came down to Wellington for a Quilters Symposium (yes, she is a patchwork quilter). Amongst the various selling stalls was one that was also giving away knitting magazines. Dear Mum got 3 for me, including an English magazine had a pattern for this:



I found a pure woollen yarn here that would be okay and made the tea cosy. Dear Mum gave extra help as she worked out how to put the daffodil flower parts I'd made together so they ressembled a daffodil flower. With this help, and Mickle also teaching herself Swiss darning, the tea cosy was finally finished ..... and eventually sent off .....



To my dear sister over in England, where the cosy has kept their teapot warm over a cold and snowy winter.



A woolley jersey/sweater/jumper does just the trick for ceramic teapots.

Coffee drinkers - Mickle will have to think again for coffee pot jerseys (just do understand that much as Mickle's taste buds love coffee, her innards get very stroppy with it. Stroppy digestive insides are painfull, unreliable and not much fun)

Wonderful thanks to Liz for photographing the tea cosy (as Mickle completely forgot to before sending the happily knitted tea cosy off the the UK), and happy hoorays to the cosy's new home of tea drinkers accepting the daffodil tea wotsit/warm up devices way before their English Springtime.

XXX Mickle, Purr, purrpurrrrrumble from Zebster