Grapthys: February 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

I'm a little tea pot, crochet.

Tea Cosy , my new thing with some blog facts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_cosy

Tea pot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot

Tea pot history
The teapot probably derived from the ceramic kettles and wine pots
which were also made in bronze and other metals and were a feature
of Chinese cultural life for thousands of years. The earliest example
of a teapot that has survived to this day seems to be the one in the
Flagstaff House Museum of Teaware; it has been dated to 1513 and
attributed to Gongchun.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tea_cosy

Handle

Spout

Slimming world breakfast.

I figured, Tea , Coffee so breakfast should bb mentioned. Veggie ham , egg omlette style and two cherrys a kind of quishe.

Yarn combination

Second WIP

Traditional tea cosy

This style is my inspiration, we have one similar at The Outcast knit cafe and it always makes me smile.

Crafted by Emma Bradbury (not the one above, you have to visit the knit cafe for the one I mention.
http://emmabradbury.com/about/

Fact
Although the history of the tea cosy may begin when tea was introduced
to Britain in the 1660s, the first documented use of a tea cosy in
Britain was in 1867. It is probably the Duchess of Bedford who,
by establishing the activity of afternoon tea in 1840, would have
brought the popularity of the tea cosy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Russell,_Duchess_of_Bedford