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

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  • Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
  • If you've already knit yourself a cozy sweater, why not knit one for your teapot? These cold days call for a tea cozy to keep drinking nice hot tea all day long! This tea cozy is knit from a victorian pattern and it is available as part of a book I scanned in on my website!
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  • @melimsah
    @melimsah 2 роки тому +11

    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 ^_^

  • @petapendlebury9024
    @petapendlebury9024 2 роки тому +50

    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
      @the_good_citizen 2 роки тому +2

      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.

  • @Lucy-vx2ls
    @Lucy-vx2ls 2 роки тому +11

    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!

  • @masuganut2082
    @masuganut2082 2 роки тому +9

    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
      @dee-annegordon5959 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @masuganut2082
      @masuganut2082 2 роки тому +2

      @@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
    @KenZchameleon 2 роки тому +4

    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!

  • @laurabuche5191
    @laurabuche5191 2 роки тому +7

    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
      @katinkasirena 2 роки тому +2

      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
      @laurabuche5191 2 роки тому +2

      @@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
      @katinkasirena 2 роки тому +2

      @@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
      @laurabuche5191 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @dee-annegordon5959
    @dee-annegordon5959 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @boops1192
    @boops1192 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @kadairh
    @kadairh 2 роки тому +5

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

  • @melindaloustalot6975
    @melindaloustalot6975 2 роки тому +2

    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!!

  • @becca2525
    @becca2525 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @joywarburton5719
    @joywarburton5719 2 роки тому +3

    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 :)

  • @emilythomas6776
    @emilythomas6776 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @constancetroutman6419
    @constancetroutman6419 2 роки тому

    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

  • @NaomisNeedles
    @NaomisNeedles 2 роки тому

    So pretty and cute! Love the ribbon effect

  • @JDog-tn8we
    @JDog-tn8we Рік тому

    I love this pattern-Thanks for posting this!

  • @eshchory
    @eshchory 2 роки тому

    Now that is a proper teacosy! Lovely.

  • @coreygilles847
    @coreygilles847 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @nancymoore8949
    @nancymoore8949 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @CreationsOfAMoonChild
    @CreationsOfAMoonChild 2 роки тому

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

  • @lindasheets813
    @lindasheets813 Рік тому

    Beautiful job

  • @kathrynmacgown6575
    @kathrynmacgown6575 2 роки тому

    I love this!

  • @lesleyharris525
    @lesleyharris525 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @laurenmiller3886
    @laurenmiller3886 2 роки тому

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

  • @lebahmadu81
    @lebahmadu81 2 роки тому

    so cute...love this

  • @LusiaX
    @LusiaX 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @lauraraines767
    @lauraraines767 2 роки тому

    Oh that is so cute 😍

  • @caroleallen9398
    @caroleallen9398 2 роки тому

    Love it!

  • @ingridseewald1468
    @ingridseewald1468 Рік тому

    Love this

  • @lyndawinn2698
    @lyndawinn2698 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 2 роки тому

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

  • @LATHEANDLOOMPODCAST
    @LATHEANDLOOMPODCAST 9 місяців тому

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

  • @bhavens9149
    @bhavens9149 2 роки тому

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

  • @c.wright3750
    @c.wright3750 2 роки тому

    That’s cute!

  • @vysgiyi
    @vysgiyi 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @macstabby_j
    @macstabby_j 2 роки тому

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

  • @mariebray9831
    @mariebray9831 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @welldressedhistorian
    @welldressedhistorian 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @joanneyoung1081
    @joanneyoung1081 2 роки тому

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

  • @DebiSmithPouliot
    @DebiSmithPouliot 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @teaeyedoubleguhur
      @teaeyedoubleguhur 2 роки тому

      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,

  • @teaeyedoubleguhur
    @teaeyedoubleguhur 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @vb7794
    @vb7794 2 роки тому

    I need a teapot to knit it some cozy sweaters XD

  • @ginnieliebherr4245
    @ginnieliebherr4245 2 роки тому

    Perfection

  • @JamieTheMime
    @JamieTheMime 2 роки тому

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

  • @sandra_brt
    @sandra_brt 2 роки тому

    hello, you are amazing doing these cuties 🤗

  • @Teagannova
    @Teagannova 2 роки тому

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

  • @CraigsOverijse
    @CraigsOverijse 2 роки тому

    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

  • @funnycraft2580
    @funnycraft2580 2 роки тому

    Thanks! ))))

  • @jennbeammakes
    @jennbeammakes 2 роки тому +1

    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
      @feezlfuzzl564 2 роки тому

      Mif or mil? What does that mean?

    • @jennbeammakes
      @jennbeammakes 2 роки тому +1

      @@feezlfuzzl564 milk in first versus milk in last.

    • @dee-annegordon5959
      @dee-annegordon5959 2 роки тому

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

  • @MrsBrit1
    @MrsBrit1 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @rexgeorg7324
    @rexgeorg7324 2 роки тому

    The word Teapot is quite modern too

  • @Hepzibahlee8440
    @Hepzibahlee8440 Рік тому

    Also would you show the knitting needles that you use, and are there any suggestions for vintage knitting?

  • @deenas5581
    @deenas5581 Рік тому

    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.

  • @wonderfullotta3
    @wonderfullotta3 2 роки тому

    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 😅

  • @judib7556
    @judib7556 8 місяців тому +1

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

  • @prinsesse2010
    @prinsesse2010 Рік тому +1

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

  • @christenagervais7303
    @christenagervais7303 2 роки тому

    I really like this pattern! It seems very thermal!

  • @hannahhooton2832
    @hannahhooton2832 Рік тому

    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?

  • @miraakyz3014
    @miraakyz3014 Рік тому

    Merhaba. Ölçüleri nedir acaba harika görünüyor elinize sağlık 🤗

  • @theresahendrie6206
    @theresahendrie6206 Рік тому

    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

  • @cindyp.9030
    @cindyp.9030 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @feezlfuzzl564
    @feezlfuzzl564 2 роки тому +1

    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
      @dee-annegordon5959 2 роки тому

      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
    @lizcrochetbystorm6037 Рік тому

    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
    @marquesa4146 2 роки тому

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

  • @andreasissons7766
    @andreasissons7766 4 місяці тому

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

  • @rexgeorg7324
    @rexgeorg7324 2 роки тому +1

    You're Joking 00:10

  • @sewingmachines6369
    @sewingmachines6369 2 роки тому

    👌👌👌👍👍👍

  • @linedemers7493
    @linedemers7493 2 роки тому

    there not a lot of tutorial crochet teapot

  • @flatbedlove
    @flatbedlove Рік тому

    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 :/

  • @sligo123
    @sligo123 Рік тому

    Couldn’t download the pattern.

  • @Zorak2319
    @Zorak2319 Рік тому

    The link to the pattern no longer works

  • @Hepzibahlee8440
    @Hepzibahlee8440 Рік тому

    The cosy pattern is gone😭

  • @rjbrewer09
    @rjbrewer09 Рік тому

    love it but brioche knitting scares me

  • @ashtree1016
    @ashtree1016 2 роки тому

    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
    @the_good_citizen 2 роки тому

    Hi. Why is this not made in the round?