Tea Cozy Tuesday January Pattern Tips

I’m absolutely amazed by the response to the Tea Cozy Tuesday Make Along! Are you ready to get started on the first pattern? Here are some January pattern tips.

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Materials

For the January tea cozy, I’m using Carron Simply Soft yarn in “bone” and I found these great toggle buttons to go with it:

I planned to use stash yarn, but had trouble matching the gauge. So I tried this yarn instead, and also went down a needle size. Here’s the beginning of the back panel – this is the bottom ribbing section:

I’ve actually finished the back now, and will have progress pictures for you next week.

January Pattern Tips

This first pattern is turning out to be a somewhat qualified success. It’s a very cute design and we’ve already seen a couple of pretty FOs, but the pattern has a few mistakes and is hard to read / understand in a few places.

First increase row

People have been having particular difficulty with first increase row. The instructions are correct, but with all the repeats, they’re not easy to understand. I drew this illustration (halfway between a chart and a written pattern) to help show how the increases relate to the existing ribbing:

Turtle2373 and Bartlebean were kind enough to write out this row explicitly (without any brackets or repeats) on the ravelry group:

K2, P1, M1P, P2, M1P, P1, M1P, K1, M1P, K1, P1, M1P, P2, M1P, P1, M1P, K1, M1P, K1, P1, M1P, P2, M1P, P1, K2, P1, M1P, P2, M1P, P1, M1P, K1, M1P, K1, P1, M1P, P2, M1P, P1, K2.

For those of you just starting, stick with it – it really does turn out cute!

Share your Progress

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9 Comments

Sara Crafts

January 14, 2014 at 8:38 am Reply

https://saracrafts.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/tea-cozy-tuesday-casting-on-and-such/

creative pixie

January 14, 2014 at 11:16 am Reply

Oooh a tea cozy is on my list of things to do. I’ll check out your links. Thanks for sharing.

stitches'n'scraps

January 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm Reply

We’d be glad to have you! 🙂

crochetmelovely

January 14, 2014 at 4:33 pm Reply

I mentioned you on my blog today nominating you for a Sunshine blogger award : )

stitches'n'scraps

January 14, 2014 at 4:39 pm Reply

Thanks 🙂

Tina

January 14, 2014 at 9:06 pm Reply

Love the button, they will look awesome 🙂

stitches'n'scraps

January 14, 2014 at 11:23 pm Reply

Thanks! 🙂

silvia d rodriguez

October 17, 2016 at 4:35 pm Reply

love the way knitted work looks. hope someday i can learn.but i need buttons. i got some from ebay, don’t know how they will look or the size since i don’t know their measures. right now i have about 100 skeins of yarns, and always making some crochet for somebody. almost done with a sweater for a friend at the kingdom hall, then a bathroom set for my mom and finish 2 skirts for one of my daughters. then hopefully will be able to refill my stash of praying shawls,afghans wraps etc. which i need for the hall meetings since the ac is very cold.but i want to buy pretty buttons and hardly anyone sells them anymore, where did you buy those? you can write directly if possible.thanks.

Pia Thadani

October 17, 2016 at 4:43 pm Reply

thanks 🙂 I think I got those at JoAnn, but it was a long time ago so they probably don’t have those ones anymore

Tea Cozy Tuesday – January – Week 2

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