Tea in Granny's Garden

I love my tea pot.  It's so plump and sweet looking in its glosssy yellow paint and sweet white daisies.  Stu bought it for me (together with its matching sugar bowl and milk jug) for our first Christmas after we moved in together, so it has been travelling around with us or some time now.  I've just recently starting using it for tea again though - there is nothing like a pot of tea in winter, and I also love filling it with my homemade chai. 



Here's my teapot in action for our "high tea" on the weekend.

But my brews were not staying warm enough, so I needed a tea cosy.  I was going to buy one, but the only ones I could find were blah, so I started hunting for a pattern.  It had to be crochet (cos I'm not a knitter), reasonably easy, use yarn I already had and preferably be pretty too.  I found a pattern for a Granny stripe cosy, and started with some blue yarn I had lying around and made this......

Pretty cute huh?  And perfectly practical..... but I had an idea brewing (hehe - yep, I meant that pun) and the cold windy day today proved to be the perfect time to let my idea bloom (yep, that's another pun....)  And I created this -

Ta-da!!  Tea in Granny's Garden!  I love love love it!  It looks so sweet in my kitchen - like spring arrived early.  And with a bit of luck, it'll keep my tea warm too :)