For the last few months I have been slowly knitting a chicken teacosy. It all started when I asked a knitting frien if she had a pattern for that old fashioned sort of teacosy with the fluted sides and slots for handle and spout. She then showed me these patterns for teacosies in the shape of a hen, a cat, a rabbit and a sheep. Being a singing chicken I decided to make the chicken. I did want a rustier colour of wool for the body but this type of wool doesn't come in many colours so I couldn't get it.
Last Saturday, I took all the knitted pieces up to the patio where I spent a couple of hours in the sun stuffing and sewing all the various bits together.
The eyes aren't right but toy chickens' eyes are hard to come by. I have used wooden beads and painted black pupils onto them but they are a bit small.
I will keep a lookout everywhere I go in future for little haberdashery and craft shops where I mught just find some little eyes.
If I can still get the wool I might make the little chicken egg cosy that goes with it, and maybe the cat egg cosy too.
Now I have found a little hand written pattern for the fluted type of cosy which was given to me by my auntie years and years ago. Auntie is now dead. I think I might make one of those too. I ought to, really, since auntie went to so much trouble.
Really, really good!!!
ReplyDelete(I just said that to wind you up)
Seriously, that is clever. I was miles out with my earlier guesses.
I can let you have a web site...I think it's called 'www.hobby.uk.com'...Kath will know all about beads and beady eyes.
I can understand why one would want to keep a teapot warm.....but why would one want to keep an egg warm?
I eat mine! (with soldiers)
Cheers......Bernard....Ten out of Ten!
I'm glad you supported my 'take' on real musty books...the sort of thing we dig out at
ReplyDeleteHay-on-Wye.
And thank you for you appreciative remarks on my 'library'. I have posted up my entire collection of cookery books for you to browse (except for some very old, frail ones). Yes, Kipper cooks! ......but reads MORE than he cooks!
Thanks for your kind appreciation of the chicken. It's not that clever. I followed a pattern after all; didn't create it entirely myself.
ReplyDelete"Really, really" doesn't wind me up. I say it a lot myself.
Yes, I thought afterwards of Kath for chickens' eyes. Thanks for the hobby website too.
I have never really used egg cosies for that reason. I suppose if you want to make the egg, then sit and eat other stuff first, it keeps it hot until you are ready. I just thought I might make them for decorative purposes. However the wool shop I used has shut down. There's one, and a good haberdashery shop as well - in another town nearby but I never go there. I ought to, oughtn't I?
I will look at your post on cookbooks now.
I like going to Hay-on-Wye too. Did you know it was twinned with Timbuktu? I was going to say that on your post that featured Timbuktu.
I didn't expect to hear from you 'till Monday.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice Saturday surprise....I expect you took some work home for this wet weekend? It must be raining in Foodyland...the whole country looks wet.
I have to say I'm just that little bit concerned.
ReplyDeleteI do hope everything is alright.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Very best wishes......Bernard
Hay-on-Wye twinned with Timbuktu? Why am I not surprised.Does Timbuktu have such good bookshops?
ReplyDeleteEgg cosies, never found them much use except to look at and who has time to look at eggs in cosies unless of course one has staff who bring breakfast from below stairs to the dining room every morning.
So sad when a good wool shop closes.Remember a beaut shop for eyes in a little market town in Derbyshire where George Eliot wrote "Mill On The Floss", name is escaping me right now.....
Mu aunt made those fluted cosies too!I wonder if we are distantly related?
Goodness, a "fluted" tea cosy,I know exactly what you mean. Until her death last December, my Nan had one in green and peach colours,which alternated with each "flute" .Kath
ReplyDeleteKD, Well, yes, I am very sorry. You have probably read the explantion now. I must keep a separate note of how to find the blog.
ReplyDeleteGoose breeder, I believe it has something to do with very ancient texts and their preservation in the very dry atmosphere.
Related? Well, who knows?
Kath, I bet it had a pom pom on the top too!
I'm really pleased that you have 'come out' of your little 'chicken coop'.
ReplyDeleteThere are lots of friends waiting.
This blogging has a lot more to offer than tweeting and facebook and I'm enjoying it immensely. I know it can be time consuming if you have a full time job.....but when I was working I always wanted something to do at lunch times...this would have been ideal.
I think you have a lot to contribute...please carry on.....I'm looking forward to your Christmas blogs....your favourite time, don't forget.
Cheers.....Bernard.
Thank you, KD. Well, at lunchtimes I'm usually doing the things I always did before I had a blog and these days I'm in the gym as work is quiet because of the credit crunch.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for when I can do Christmas stuff. I'm champing at the bit.
Thank you for your encouragement. I have another follower now, Kath, and an entirely new person commented yesterday.