Chain Reaction Tea Cosy

I have recently had a little break away in a caravan, and just for fun I took some fun yarn to play with, just to see what I could make with it.

At the time of choosing this yarn for the project I didn't give it much thought, I just chose colours that were bright. I do love cheerful colours. I hadn't got much of an idea what I was going to make with the yarn, beyond it being a tea cosy, but I was going away and needed something fun to do.

Rowan Big Wool is a Super Chunky weight yarn that is 100% wool and so soft. The yarn itself looks a lot like yarn before it's spun, you know, when you see those yarn process photos.

Anyway as I was packing, I was not thinking Super Chunky yarn, I was just thinking pack yarn and consequently, I didn't pack the advised 10 to 15mm knitting needles and having other work in progress projects with me I had my standard 5.5mm needles with me, so I'm afraid that is what I designed the tea cosy using, so my tea cosy did turn out to be self supporting, it will stand upright even without a teapot inside it. But hey, it will be a super insulated tea cosy.

As far as the tea cosy design went, I had seen a technique there you have horizontal strips in fabric, knitting or crocheting, and then the thread through one another, just like knitting when you pick up a dropped stitch in your knitting. I thought with having two shades of yarn, that this technique would look good.

Having got this idea in head, but never having actually tried it out, I started the tea cosy. But I did find that it wasn't plain sailing, and I restarted the cosy 3 times before it came together.

Usually I blog before I start a tea cosy but in the case of this tea cosy, I am blogging now having already designed it. I shall just be working on the written pattern and then I shall be passing that across to be test knitted, so this lovely chain reaction tea cosy made with lovely Rowan Big Wool squishy, will be on the website very shortly.







Tags: