I'm just back from my second Macmillan coffee morning of the day! No breakfast or lunch today, just cake all the way!!! I'm always happy to eat cake, but definitely prefer my tea to my coffee (my heart just can't take the rush of caffeine) and whilst I've photographed my treasured tea pot before, I've decided it's time to cosy it up. I love sitting at the kitchen table on a day like today, the rain pouring down, a pot of tea within easy reach and a crochet hook and yarn in my hands. So, in an effort to bust my summer stash, I'm crocheting a cosy for said tea pot, my precious keepsake from my late Nan Connie. All of the colours I have left over remind me of projects past and I know the tea cosy will get used for many years to come.
I'm not writing a pattern for this one - everyone's tea pot is different, but if you thought you might do the same: start with a chain, slip stitch to make a ring (big enough for your teapot lid handle), then gradually increase, working in half trebles in the round all the way. Work back and forth in rows to accomodate the pot handle and do the same for the spout. Bring it all back together in the round to finish at the bottom of your pot. Better still, when it's finished I'll post some more detailed photos to give you a sense of the design.
And, for the really short scraps of yarn I'm left with, my latest craft craze, some birds eye buttons. Unlike the Dorset buttons, you don't even need a brass ring, just wrap your yarn round and round a knitting needle or crochet hook and then, using a tapestry needle, work through the centre of your bundle with a series of blanket stitches....
Happy to post a tutorial if you'd like to see the process in stages. Now I just need to find a sewing project that needs buttons! xxx
Hello, both are very nice!!! ...and the little buttons soo lovely! I'ld like to make them for decorating my iphone-case and for my bible cover to lock it with an elastic round the button...and i think, very nice some of them at the end of my knited scarf. Thank you for your lovely ideas. Wish you a happy week and god bless you! Sibylle......a pitty, germany is too far away, otherway i would like to drink a cup of tea with you!!!
Posted by: Sibylle runkel | October 01, 2012 at 07:35 AM
Hello Sibylle, I wish you were closer too, a cup of tea and a crochet with you sounds lovely. Delighted you like the buttons (one ended up on my tea cosy!), I love your ideas of where to use them. Wishing you a wonderful week too, Sara x
Posted by: Sara Sinaguglia | October 01, 2012 at 01:01 PM
I wouldn't mind a tutorial! I don't quite get it... I'm preparing my cup of tea just in case!
Posted by: maria sara piccardo | October 28, 2013 at 09:56 PM
Thanks for sharing!! the buttons are so pretty! :)
Posted by: Danielle | August 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM
I would love to see a tutorial for these. Can't quite imagine how you did these.
Posted by: Jb Whitesell | August 23, 2014 at 02:45 PM
I love your buttons. I am kind of new to crochet and know the basics, so reading a a pattern would work well for me. Thank you for sharing your talent with all.M
Posted by: Marsha | September 01, 2014 at 01:59 AM
Hello, I'm new to crochet, so small projects like this are very rewarding - thank you for sharing :)
Posted by: Yvette | September 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM
I would love a tutorial. What is inside the buttons?
Posted by: Ardice | June 06, 2015 at 06:48 PM
Hi Ardice, there is a tutorial for the buttons, see here http://onechurchillsgreen.typepad.com/onechurchillsgreen/2012/10/buttons-pretty-buttons.html
Basically, you run a series of blanket stitches over the top of a yarn loop (creating by wrapping yarn around a pencil or knitting needle), so nothing required apart from yarn and a tapestry needle. Let me know if you can't access the link. Sx
Posted by: OneChurchillsGreen | June 08, 2015 at 02:21 PM
Thank You so much! I have tons of yarn scraps just waitnig to be used :~)
Posted by: Ardice | June 11, 2015 at 07:08 PM