Roses of Autumn Tea-Cozy

Rose of Autumn Cozy

I did finish the Cozy last night and I have made my first pot of tea in the new pot.  Both are working great! 

The spout does not drip – always an issue, most pots drip.  Or least, most of my pots have dripped.  The pot and the cozy are working together well and keeping the tea hot!  I was thinking of writing the pattern for this cozy.  It is very labour intensive with the finishing of the roses on the pot.  I am not sure if most would want to do the playing around that goes with this type of rose shaping.  The leaf edging around the top is very fiddly as well.   It needed a lot of encouragement to hold the crown shape!  Read that as lots of tacking with needle and yarn!

Top View

I’ve picked up the Modern Guernsey Sweater again.  It was “on hold”  while I explored a couple of other ideas.  The French ribbons sweater (purple), is going well and I know that my idea will work, so it can wait while I finish this sweater.  My pattern for the Victorian Lace Cap is basically all written – I just need a good photo for the front!  So I can concentrate on the Guernsey.

Last week Betty came into the store with a bag of old knitting patterns.  Most were pretty standard baby sweater and childrens patterns, but there was this one neat old book – the 1941 Lux Knitting Book!

This book has 63 patterns, with patterns for beginners and experts, yarn substitutions guide, how to section, a write up about colours and cost only 35 Cents!  Very, very cool!

Happy Knitting

Lynette

A New Look for an Old Favorite

Baltic Meadows - Detail

When I first started to knit lace, about 10 years ago, I was like most new lace knitters, a little afraid of the fine yarns that they all seemed to be knit with.  I looked for shawls, and lace projects that were knit with heavier yarns.  This stole was one of my first projects.

The Baltic Sea Stole was knit with a sport weight mohair in the original version, but could be knit with any sport weight.  It needs over 900yds for it’s 80in length and 27in width -I had about 800yds of a 4-ply/light sport weight alpaca and being about 5 ft tall did not need 80in of stole!  I thought that the pattern and my yarn would be the perfect match and they were.  My stole is 59in long and 25in wide.  There was only one problem, the alpaca yarn was in the natural creamy white, which I do not wear well.  So my poor stole has languished in my cupboard, pulled out quite a few times but seldom worn.  It just did not look good on me!

Baltic Meadows - the new look!

I wore the stole to work on Thursday and had an Epiphany!  Why not paint the stole!?  Dorothy and I discussed the pro’s (many) and cons (none) and that is just what I did.  Today!  It is now on the floor behind me blocking and drying!  Why had it never occurred to me before?!  One of life’s little blind spots.  My stole is now Baltic Meadows and looks like a meadow full of flowers.

New beads for the Stash, including some size 6/0 delica's. I've never found delica's that big before!

Yesterday I went to Victoria.  It was a wonderful day with no itinerary and no real purpose.  I found some beads for my stash and some loose tea for my cupboard! 

Last weekend I bought a new tea-pot, a shiny stainless one, but it needs a cozy before I can use it.  It has been my project for the week and is almost done!  The cozy will get finished this evening and I will make my first pot of tea in my new pot tomorrow morning.  I think that I will try one of my new teas as well.  I hope to share pictures tomorrow morning!

Happy Knitting

Lynette

PS.  If you want to take a look at the painting process for the stole.