Tea Cozy Tuesday – March – Week #2
Have you gathered your supplies for the March tea cozy? This is a fun one with lots of different options! Take a look at my choices, plus some March pattern tips.
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Materials
Yarn
This month we’re making the Fairy Cake Tea Cozy by Frankie Brown. I decided to make a red velvet fairy cake in a green wrapper, with cream cheese icing.
Once again I managed to find all the yarn I needed in my stash. I’m using Lion Brand Amazing in the rainforest colorway for the main portion of the cozy. The burgundy yarn for the cake portion is Caron Simply Soft. Finally, Lion Brand Pound of Love in cream will be the icing
Buttons
My favorite find was the buttons for the “sprinkles” on top. My local yarn store has a large jar full of all different shapes and sizes of buttons. As it turns out, this is a charity button jar.
The rule is you can help yourself to whatever buttons you want, in return for making a donation (of any amount you deem appropriate) to the charity box. What a great idea! I found these little red buttons that I think will be just perfect.
March Pattern Tips
The pattern calls for DK weight yarn, and once again I am substituting worsted weight. Since it’s mostly stretchy ribbing around the base of the teapot, the fit is somewhat forgiving.
Weight categories like worsted weight and DK are ranges rather than specific sizes. All of the yarns I picked are on the lighter end of the worsted weight range, so they should work out fine.
As always, it’s very important to check your gauge, particularly if you are substituting yarns!
Join in the Tea Cozy Tuesday Fun!
- Share your progress with the hashtag #Tea_Cozy_Tuesday
- Check out all the other finished cozies on the Pinterest page.
- Visit the Ravelry group for tips and suggestions, to follow everyone’s progress, or just for some tea talk.
- Visit the main Tea Cozy Tuesday post for the full schedule and all the links.
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7 Comments
ellen
I’m completely floored that you are knitting a cozy a month? Is that right? Really? I have been telling even my non knitting friends about this. They are rather floored too. hehe. Cheering you on from afar. I’m just trying to make sure I finish a pair of socks here and there. Oh who am I kidding, I just want to finish something, anything!
stitches'n'scraps
we are! well actually, we’re making a cozy a month, but we’re alternating between knit and crochet….the patterns are all free and mostly fairly easy – you should join us for a cozy or two (or more)! There’s a group on Ravelry as well and everyone on it is very supportive and helpful.
I’m also doing the Socks with Sarah KAL this year – have you seen that one? it’s loads of fun – basically all you have to do is knit at least one row on a pair of socks every day, that’s it! You’d be amazed how quickly a row or two a day can turn into a pair of socks 🙂
Rita Jannusch McKenzie
Sorry, but I didn’t see how to get to the directions or a picture of this months cozy from the email.
Rita Jannusch McKenzie
Duh!! I found it!!
stitches'n'scraps
Lol! I’m glad you found it 🙂 I’ve started on it and it looks like it’s going to be cute!
Rita Jannusch McKenzie
I don’t knit, so I might try to recreate it with crochet. It is soooo cute~
stitches'n'scraps
Here’s a crochet cupcake cozy to get you started: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cupcake-tea-cozy-4 🙂