Fortune Teller Tea Cosy

For me, I think autumn has an air or mysticism, and a supernatural unexplained kind of magic. A time when we can connect to spirits from the other side and maybe see the future.

I thought an old fashioned style fortune teller would be a great autumnal tea cosy. You know the kind that the Victorians used to have in tents on the seaside piers. Even now in some amusement arcades you can still find those fortune telling automaton machines that pop out a card with your fortune written on it.

I have dressed the fortune telling woman in dark colours and purples. Purple seems a mystics kind of colour and I have draped a tassel shawl around her shoulders. And they are always depicted as having lots of gold jewellery.

I'm not sure why I think of fortune tellers are a bit spooky and Halloweeny. Mr Rochester dresses up as a fortune teller in Jane Eyre, and that novel has gothic tones and a spooky undercurrent. And in the Wizard of Oz the traveling man tells Dorothy's fortune. At least she thinks he does. And I supposed that fortune tellers are tapping into something other worldly to get their information and psychic powers.

For the crystal ball I thought I'd use a clear Christmas bauble. It will make a stark contract to the knitting and I'm hoping it will look more like a crystal ball than a knitted crystal ball would look. I thought I'd have the ball sitting on a small table in front of her, and cover it with a purple table cloth.

I know her hands look a bit like a bunch of sausages, but I want to give her digits because when you see clairvoyants 'use' their crystal balls, the hands play a key roll, so it's important to give her hands and fingers.

I can't foresee and issues with this tea cosy - Oops! Now I sound like a clairvoyant! I shall enjoy using the magical looking shades of yarn to create a spooking looking mystic.

Oh, one more point - I thought I'd give her a shocked face - what could she have seen in her crystal ball?











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