Darlin' Tea Cozy - Instant Download PDF

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Natchez, Mississippi. If you want a real taste of the antebellum South, the Spring or Fall Pilgrimage in Natchez, Mississippi is guaranteed to do the trick. For a few weeks each year, many of the city’s spectacularly preserved mansions open their doors and grounds to visitors. Strolling the gardens where the creamy magnolia blossoms perch among glossy green and copper leaves, you can’t help but drift off to a time when belles in hoop skirts fluttered their eyelashes while they sipped tea, and refined, lanky men in white linen suits vied for their attention.

This tea cozy was inspired by the genteel pace and lavish blossoms of Mississippi. And at the risk of being thought too flashy to be truly ladylike, there’s just anlittle bit of shine, courtesy of a few golden glass beads. Not enough to be trashy, mind you. Just a bit of girly to keep your tea pot warm while you nibble daintily on a slice of Red Velvet Cake. Recipe for the world’s best Red Velvet cake is included.

This pattern is also available in the instant download ebook, Deep South Knitting.

Natchez, Mississippi. If you want a real taste of the antebellum South, the Spring or Fall Pilgrimage in Natchez, Mississippi is guaranteed to do the trick. For a few weeks each year, many of the city’s spectacularly preserved mansions open their doors and grounds to visitors. Strolling the gardens where the creamy magnolia blossoms perch among glossy green and copper leaves, you can’t help but drift off to a time when belles in hoop skirts fluttered their eyelashes while they sipped tea, and refined, lanky men in white linen suits vied for their attention.

This tea cozy was inspired by the genteel pace and lavish blossoms of Mississippi. And at the risk of being thought too flashy to be truly ladylike, there’s just anlittle bit of shine, courtesy of a few golden glass beads. Not enough to be trashy, mind you. Just a bit of girly to keep your tea pot warm while you nibble daintily on a slice of Red Velvet Cake. Recipe for the world’s best Red Velvet cake is included.

This pattern is also available in the instant download ebook, Deep South Knitting.

Additional Pattern Info:

  • Intermediate

  • 13.5 stitches and 17 rows = approximately 4” (10cm) in stockinette stitch with two strands of yarn held together on size US 11 (8mm) needles before felting

  • Approximately 10” (25cm) high by 12” (30cm) wide and 24” (60cm) circumference at bottom after felting; 15” (38cm) wide by 15” (38cm) high and 30” (75cm) circumference at bottom before felting

  • Cascade 220 Wool (100% Peruvian highland wool, 220 yards/200m); 2 skeins Natural #8010, 1 skein White #8505 for blossoms, half skein Forest Green #8267, half skein Shamrock #9486, half skein Japanese Maple #2435, small amount Goldenrod #7827 for flower centers and needle-felted trim

    Size US 7 (4.5mm) needles

    Size US 9 (5.5mm) needles

    Size US 11 (8mm) double pointed needles

    Size US 11 (8mm) 20-24” (50-60cm) circular needle

    Stitch markers

    Tapestry needle

    Needle-felting needles

    Dressmaker’s removable marking pencil

    Approximately 72 dark yellow glass size 6/0 beads

    Sewing needle

    Embroidery floss in matching and complementary shades (see Tips)