Tea Cozy Pattern

Here's the pattern for the quick little tea cozy I whipped up for Rob's mom's birthday. It took me about an hour and a half to finish and it's great for using left over cotton yarn.


Materials needed
Sugar'n Cream (Your color of choice I used Cream and Light Blue) 2 balls about 240 yards of main color and 50 yards of contrasting color
H Hook (5mm)

Notes - The entire body of the pieces is worked through the back loop only (this is my first pattern be kind)
Pattern
Chain 30 sts
1st row: DC in 2nd chain from hook and in each chain to end of row. Chain 2 Turn
2nd Row: DC into each DC to end, Chain 2 Turn
3-15: Repeat 2nd row
16th Row: DC into first 15 DC, Chain 10, Skip 10 DC, DC into last 5 DC
17th Row: DC into 5 DC and DC into each chain stitch, DC into last 15 DC, chain 2 turn
18-31: DC into each DC, Chain 2 turn

Take piece and whip stitch first 6 stitches together skip the next 18 stitches and whip stitch the last 6 stitches together. You should now have a tube with openings on either end.

Contrasting border is worked through both loops
With contrasting color chain 35 sts, cut yarn and place chain to the side
With contrasting color sc into each SC 2 times to form a contrasting border cut yarn.
With contrasting color SC into each DC on one side in the opening that was not sewn together (10 DC) SC in where both sides of the opening meet. SC into each DC on the other side (10 DC) SC into opposite end where the sides of the opening meet. Cut yarn

Weave in loose ends

Take the Chain 35 and weave it into the 5th row from the top and pull to gather top as needed

I know this isn't the clearest pattern but if you have any questions leave a comment and I will gladly walk you through any issues.

Current Projects (With Notes)

Here's the Star baby blanket, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but if you look close you can see the points are curving to one side:

I'm using Caron's Simply Soft in "Bone" and "Country Blue." I hate this yarn, it feels like sticky plastic and even Rob touched the blanket and said "this feels dry" I really hate acrylic but cheap acrylic is the worst. I'm only using this because it's for a baby and babies are messy so this blanket will have to be cleaned a lot. Also when crocheting I try to use cheaper yarn since crochet uses like 3 times the yarn of knitting and something tiny, even for a baby could wind up costing me a ton of moolah.

Here's the clapotis:

For this project I used some hand spun I made from hand painted superwash from the Sheep Shed Studio. I'm so glad I ordered so much wool because I'm about 2/3rds done and I ran out of yarn. Now I have to figure out how thin I spun the singles and spin up some more. The yarn was Navajo plied so I have to spin about 3 times as much as I'm going to need so after plying I have enough. Gah I feel like I'm in over my head. On a side note I love how the subtle color changes in the roving came out and knitted up I'm so glad there was no pooling of the colors in the center of the shawl. I did 2 less increases in the first section, and depending on how much I can spin I may have to do 2 less rows of the middle section. We'll see how it comes out. This will be my first large project I've made with my handspun and so far I'm happy with the way it came out.

Here's the Josephine I'm knitting:

This is also acrylic, but it's not as offensive to me as the Caron's. It seems there's a few errors in the pattern and the website has not yet posted any errata so those of us in the knitalong are flying by the seat of our pants trying to wing it to complete this pattern. I do love the final pictures and I hope mine will turn out okay. I'm going to really have to tug the stitches to even everything out since blocking acrylic is impossible. This is why I added an extra row of knit stitches at the bottom. I would hate to have a curly FO.

Here's that tea cozy I crocheted up for Rob's mom:

It's a pattern of my own design. I may post the pattern later on. It's made with peaches & cream yarn and crocheted with an H hook. Don't let my craftster buddies find out I made a tea cozy. There's no irony to it!!