Knitting a Sweater for my Teapot (using a Victorian Tea Cozy pattern)

[@petapendlebury9024]

I have 2 tea cosies - tea stays much hotter for longer with one. I love using one. Also, just for your information....put a bit of the boiled water in the empty tea pot, swill around to warm the pot, dump that water, then put the tea in the pot and add the boiling water. This is the traditional way to make tea here in the UK and your tea will stay hotter for even longer!

[@the_good_citizen]

Shouldn't u use one which covers the spout too? I prefer the one that totally covers my pot so the steam doesn't escape.

[@melimsah]

o__o I was watching through the Cabinet of Curiosities playlist and came across this unlisted video. I feel like I just found a secret shortcut in a corn maze or something ^_^

[@Lucy-vx2ls]

I made a wool tea cozy a few years ago. My husband recently felted it in the wash, so I definitely need to make another!

[@laurabuche5191]

I live where it's cold for 9-10 months every year and I find that tea cozies (?) are a GREAT way to deter teapots from getting cold fast. (I may or may have not made an experiment with a teapot with and without cozy and an industrial grade thermometer 🤫🤭)

[@katinkasirena]

Regarding the experiment you may or may not have made: what would you say, how long does a woolen tea cosy keep your tea hot? Is it comparable to using a tea warmer? And were there differences with tea cozies from different patterns?

[@laurabuche5191]

@@katinkasirena my tea cozy was crocheted with a very thick "bobble-like" pattern, and the Temperature decreased 10C degrees in 30 minutes, but 10 C degrees in 15 minutes without.... It was in the middle of the winter, by the way. Interesting to try DIFFERENT cozies techniques.... what is a tea warmer?

[@katinkasirena]

@@laurabuche5191 thank you, that's really interesting. It's quite a difference. Maybe tea warmer isn't the correct Englisch term, I used an online translator. 😅 It's those things, often ceramic or metal, where you put a small candle in and put your tea pot on top. In German it's called Stövchen and the small candle is 'Teelicht' which literally would translate to tea light. So you basically keep the heat by putting it on a small fire source. But it is an open flame and if you run out of Teelichter, you can't use it. A tea cozy would be much more resourceful and probably safer.

[@laurabuche5191]

@@katinkasirena oh! we don't have those in Argentina

[@masuganut2082]

Yes!! That tea cosy in call the midwife was such a fascination for me! I adore that show. I started watching that show when I was pregnant and my husband was working nights. I LOVE the 50s! I love tea (though I’m pregnant again so I have to lay off the tea for a while 🤣) Thank you for the pattern share!! 💛💛💛💛

[@dee-annegordon5959]

If your craving a cuppa, try out a Rooibos tea. It naturally has no caffeine.

[@masuganut2082]

@@dee-annegordon5959 last response but I just had a cup of rooibos today. I’m very sick this pregnancy and I’m hoping the rooibos will help. Thank you for being kind to me. ❤️

[@KenZchameleon]

That's so cute! My grandma had a tea cozy years ago with an appliqued rose. It was gaudy and so 1970s but she loved it. Brioche is so much fun and so versatile. Now I want to make a patterned cozy!

[@MichiaMakes]

Just completed my tea cozy. My tea starts hot so much longer. I also love the squishy feel of the brioche stitching. I’m using it to make a sweater next.

[@dee-annegordon5959]

This reminded me so much of the tea cozies both my grandmother and mother had. I personally have always favoured the style of cozy that completely covers the pot and has to be lifted off to pour. Now I'm thinking I may need to add some variety to my tea cozy game.

[@constancetroutman6419]

I love it!!!!! So cute and usable. I also watch many english shows and see the tea cozy often. Now I know someone who has one. Enjoy

[@Juamo-tn8we]

I love this pattern-Thanks for posting this!

[@judib7556]

Hi is your website no longer available? Where can I find the scan that you mention in this video? Thank you

[@melindaloustalot6975]

I have recently started drinking a lot of hot tea (used to be a coffee drinker) and was just thinking I needed to knit myself a cozy!! Thank you very much!!

[@kadairh]

Thanks, recently made a tea cozy for a friend but this looks even more insulated! And yes a classic English tea cozy.

[@LusiaX]

Me and my man have one tea cosy each. Can't live without them! I used some scrap yearn to knitt it, they are not so lovelly like yours are.

[@eshchory]

Now that is a proper teacosy! Lovely.

[@mariebray9831]

I'm still finishing the crochet Tam O'Shanter, I'm stuck on row 35, working behind??? I'll just have a go and see if I like what it looks like and can always undo it and try again. Had about 3 false starts and 3 "no that rows rubbish start again". With plenty of: "Oh, that's what they meant and some well that's what they meant, but I'm not doing that because this will work betters". I had a collection of tea cozy patterns until last year when I had bad flooding, and decided that I couldn't dry and save all the patterns. They were my Grandmother's and Aunt's both books and pages from women's magazines. I'd never be able to make them all and there are plenty patterns to be found on-line. I remember some very ornate looking tea cozies from the 60's and 70's.

[@becca2525]

That is adorable and so simple! I love the colours you used.

[@prinsesse2010]

Is there a pattern for the whole cosy kitted in one piece. Using circular needles?

[@joanneyoung1081]

Yes I was recently saying I need a teapot cozy to keep my tea hotter.

[@DebiSmithPouliot]

I made a tea cozy a few years ago by adapting a basic hat pattern. They are very useful.

[@teaeyedoubleguhur]

i have a small (2 cup) teapot and was thinking of adapting a premie cap pattern for a tea cozy, but I might make this one, too. The premie cap would be knit flat and one side seamed to make an opening for the handle. This pattern is actually easier as I'll not have to make a hole for the spout. Just stitch up the sides appropriately. Right now my cozy is an old running hat with a ponytail hole I I use for either the handle or the spout,

[@JamieTheMime]

Call the Midwife is the ultimate throw it on and knit show

[@lesleyharris525]

Hi, mine is crocheted with roses on top, so cute.💖

[@nancymoore8949]

I have have the reprints of Weldon’s Needlework. I will have to look that one up, I need a new tea cosy. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@teaeyedoubleguhur]

This looks so much like the tea cozy my husband's Nanna from Bedfordshire knitted. It on my Rockingham Brown Betty teapot which is a good working class teapot. You can see a Brown Betty on the table of the servant's hall in Downton Abbey.

[@joywarburton5719]

This is so gosh-darned cute!! I love Call the Midwife, so I'm going to look out for their fibre-craft items from now on :)

[@lyndawinn2698]

What a great video, thank you for taking the time to make it. I love this tea cozy and will have to make one. have you ever made a hot pad to sit the teapot on.

[@LATHEANDLOOMPODCAST]

This is so cute. I always look at tea cozies but have not yet knit one up. May give this a whirl!

[@macstabby_j]

Apparently this project and video really resonated with me because I had several dreams about it lol. I guess I have to make one!

[@vysgiyi]

Kind of surprised that a bachelors tea cost is so femme. But I seriously love that! And how cute yours came out. I don’t know how to brioche knit but I might need to learn for this stash buster!

[@jennbeammakes]

We still use tea cosies in the UK. I have a modern book of their patterns in all sorts of shapes! If you heat your water the American way in a mug in the microwave you don't get the tea experience that a warmed and cosy-clad pot will provide. Now, mif or mil?

[@feezlfuzzl564]

Mif or mil? What does that mean?

[@jennbeammakes]

@@feezlfuzzl564 milk in first versus milk in last.

[@dee-annegordon5959]

Mil. I adjust the amount used depending on tea strength.

[@lindasheets813]

Beautiful job

[@NaomisNeedles]

So pretty and cute! Love the ribbon effect

[@coreygilles847]

That is ridiculously cute! And would be a fairly quick project :) thanks!

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

That is a cute tea cosy It reminds me that maybe I should make one. My teapot got cold three times today!

[@emilythomas6776]

That is so freaking cute!!! Love it!!

[@bhavens9149]

I made some as christmas gifts one year, though I made them with calico and quilt batting, anyway Love tea cozies!

[@CreationsOfAMoonChild]

This is the cutest!!! Might have to whip one up in the new year 😊

[@CraigsOverijse]

My mum has alway had a tea cosy because she has a China tea pot I have a great modern book called wild tea cosies so they still exist in patterns. Ps I hope you warmed the pot first with hot water you discard because that’s what you do so that the water isn’t cooled by the pot black tea Ned boiling water to brew

[@deenas5581]

I love your tea cozy video! I would love to knit it but I can’t find the pattern. The link takes me to an error page. Do you still have the pattern available anywhere please? Thanks in advance.

[@rexgeorg7324]

The word Teapot is quite modern too

[@MrsBrit1]

Tea cosies are still in use, at least to some extent, here in the UK. I've been wanting/meaning to make one for quite some time, but just havent. Perhaps this is a good, simple way to make one.

[@MichaelSmith-jc8bq]

How many stitches do you cast on for the inner and outer panels because the link doesn’t work anymore

[@hannahhooton2832]

This is beautiful! But I couldn't find the pattern on your website. I'm a complete beginner so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how many do you cast on relative to the size of the teapot?

[@laurenmiller3886]

I am new to your channel and l love your videos 🤗 They are so fantastic! I am definitely going to make this teapot cozy🫖

[@theresahendrie6206]

May I ask how many stitches do you start out with when you cast on? I’m very new to knitting and have no idea how to read a pattern. I’m trying to teach myself

[@vb7794]

I need a teapot to knit it some cozy sweaters XD

[@feezlfuzzl564]

Does it actually help keep your tea hot? And what about the bottom? Shouldn't you make a thick pad for the bottom, too, so heat doesn't escape there as much? I may have to make one someday.

[@dee-annegordon5959]

Yup, it keeps the pot "cozy" for a good hour or more depending on room temperature/drafts. Depending on the surface your teapot sits on you may want a wooly trivet for the bottom, I don't use one at home since my teapot typically sits on a thick wooden surface that helps insulate it, but I make sure to have one at my mothers where the pot sits on a glass surface.

[@lizcrochetbystorm6037]

I was recently about to start making the project and to find the pattern I looked at every link and it's not there

[@marquesa4146]

Could you please provide the link for the pattern? The one listed is not working. Thank you in advance.

[@welldressedhistorian]

So Cute! I'd love to learn how to knit, I only learned how to crochet when I was in elementary school and I wish I learned how to knit as well.

[@neelofarmoin3095]

Iaso want teacosi handle cover in knitting.

[@RachelMohsin]

Hi you didn’t mention how many stitches you put

[@Teagannova]

Absolutely lovely! If I might ask, what is that teapot?

[@cindyp.9030]

I tried to follow your link for the pattern and got an error message instead, not sure what the problem was. This cozy is very cute, I will keep trying.

[@miraakyz3014]

Merhaba. Ölçüleri nedir acaba harika görünüyor elinize sağlık 🤗

[@andreasissons7766]

I can't find the tea cozy pattern on your website :(

[@flatbedlove]

You mention how tall but not how wide to make the components - are they 8” wide? Also, you mentioned the pattern is on your website but don’t provide your website URL anywhere just other links to other social sites :/

[@ingridseewald1468]

Love this

[@lebahmadu81]

so cute...love this

[@kathrynmacgown6575]

I love this!

[@lauraraines767]

Oh that is so cute 😍

[@sandra_brt]

hello, you are amazing doing these cuties 🤗

[@wonderfullotta3]

that's so cute! but it reminds me that my parents tell me everytime i wear a brioche-knit hat I look like I'm wearing a tea cozy 😂😂 but I don't actually see the problem here 😅

[@caroleallen9398]

Love it!

[@sligo123]

Couldn’t download the pattern.

[@ginnieliebherr4245]

Perfection

[@linedemers7493]

there not a lot of tutorial crochet teapot

[@funnycraft2580]

Thanks! ))))

[@rexgeorg7324]

You're Joking 00:10

[@Zorak2319]

The link to the pattern no longer works

[@christenagervais7303]

I really like this pattern! It seems very thermal!

[@ashtree1016]

Hi there @engineeringknits, where could I find the pattern for this tea cosy? I followed the link in the description but there was an error in the URL. :(

[@the_good_citizen]

Hi. Why is this not made in the round?

[@sewingmachines6369]

👌👌👌👍👍👍

[@rjbrewer09]

love it but brioche knitting scares me