Friday 27 September 2013

Polly Put The Kettle On!

Because I am teaching [almost] fulltime this month there has been less time for knitting. Also it means I will miss this village event

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[I did manage Sarah’s Macmillan Event in August though] So I have decided to send some items to be sold along with the cakes at the event in St Bart’s Parish Hall this morning. Having had great success with this pattern in the spring [one cosy lives here, and another at Cornerstones] I thought I’d knit retro teacosies for charity…

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Same pattern as earlier, from the Debbie Bliss book, although I am clearly more tired in the evenings, and my output seems slower – I only managed to make three. The left hand one is the same basic pattern, but I just reversed the colours every 10 rows.

I cut cardboard tea-pot from paper plates and tucked them inside each cosy, and put them inside plastic bags, with a note saying they would fit a standard 6-cup pot. I hope the trio sells [I suggested a £2 minimum donation]

Yes there are three teapots in the picture- but the middle one dribbles too much, and the left hand one is missing its lid – so they are just used for flowers occasionally. And artistic photographs.“Stylist’s own” as the magazines always say. Have you noticed that when you look at a picture in a mag, you think ‘there is nothing there I would particularly want to buy except that’  and it usually turns out to be a stylist’s prop, and therefore not for sale anywhere?

I’m sure many of you are supporting Macmillan events this weekend. Please enjoy a coffee and cake on my behalf!

11 comments:

  1. Our family had a tea cosy just like that back in the fifties - beige and brown. When it wasn't on the teapot it was on my little brother's head, preferably just after it had been on the teapot and was still warm!

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    1. As Billy Connolly says “Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.”

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  2. Love the tea cosies, as ever you have such good ideas for display - the teapot shape inside must just show off each tea cosy brilliantly. Thanks for the inspiration. How I sympathise with the slower knitting output after a busy day - it's frustrating to have the tantalising prospect of some lovely knitting time in the evening and then when the time comes find you are just too tired to do it justice, or in my case occasionally too tired to even pick up the needles! Knitting is so therapeutic, isn't it? Have a lovely day xx

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  3. We have just come back from one that was very poorly supported, sadly.

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    1. I am not sure how well our village event was supported - but I came home from school to find the three tea-cosies waiting for me, as they had not been sold!

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  4. Maybe I like the checked one best. Is it the tea-l one that is already booked??

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    1. Right hand one going to Steph, so will post you the left hand one next week [please make a donation to Macmillan]

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  5. We had a Macmillan morning at school yesterday. It went really well and the parents had a lovely time! Love your tea cosies. Do you accept commissions? X

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    1. Right & left ones now sold - if you would like the centre one, please email me your address!

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    2. CORRECTION only green check available now!

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  6. Oh, Angela, what a shame - lovely tea cosies! And the Billy Connolly quote is so true...
    Have a good weekend.

    Lesley H in Livingston

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