Tea Cozy Utopia

Carmen Miranda....is the name of the pattern for this over-the-top tea cozy.  Just click the name to see the book if you're interested in knitting a tea cozy with flair.

It doesn't get any better than this in tea cozy land.  There's a teapot in there somewhere, ha ha.Hope your week is the coziest ever!
Shared at:  Roses of Inspiration

Rosie Pretty Posy

I'm still knitting (and crocheting) tea cozies, and I'm having the best time of it. This one is Rosie Posy Tea Cosy, my favorite so far. Click the link for the best free tea cozy pattern you will ever love to knit. And be sure and have a look around while you're there. This pattern is free at Loani Prior's site and also in her tea cozy book, Wild Tea Cosies. And lo, she has another book of even "wilder" cozy patterns soon to be released. Welcome to tea cozy utopia. ;)

I'm happy as a chicken with a junebug over how it turned out.Have a great week, Y'all.

A Little Un/Finished Business

Hope you're all enjoying these last weeks of summer. I can't wait for fall to tell you the truth! Goodman and I got these turnips (greens, I love the tops) planted this week. Iitty bitty aren't they, but they grow very fast.
Youngest knitted this little tea cozy for my reproduction 18th century teapot. The two sides are sewn at the bottom but not at the top. I added the ties at the top to accommodate the handle on the top of the pot. This one was knit with Sugar & Cream yarn in the variegated Midnight Magic colorway.
You might not remember that I had started this Shells and Fan afghan last last year. I just this week finished the border. I used Wool-Ease yarn in their Chestnut Heather color.
Recently, Melanie and Trish gave me this Arte de Pico blogging award! They're both such great bloggers! I love visiting their blogs and reading all about their adventures in knitting and everyday life. Thanks, Y'all for thinking of me! Now, I'm passing it on to YOU! Yes, all my blogging friends are deserving of this award...probably more than me. I enjoy your blogs much more than my own so, please, go ahead & take a copy for yourself!


Suzanne gave me with this blogging award just last week! Ain't she sweet!
(Go Cotton Queens! Suzanne & I are on the same team & she gets the DRT box next!)
And now, since I love all the blogs I visit I'm passing this lovely award on to YOU! Please take a copy for your own blog. Thanks! Have a great week, Y'all!

Trials & Tribs of the Bloggin' Knitter

I'm back after being MIA for a whole week. We left AOL, deleted their many files in my computer and entered the unknown world of att on dialup. Nope, we can't have dsl here.
See, you just can't have it all, evidently. Ah well.
We're in the bathroom today, Y'all. :) Excuse me (punny, huh), but isn't this the cutest soap bag you ever saw? The pattern is a free one offered by blogger friend Melanie. Check out her free patterns at Lil Knit of This & That. I knitted this little bag on a long circular via the magic loop method.
In the kitchen now...it's cozy in here, too. Speakin' of cozy; I, also, knitted this tea cozy last week during my exile from the net. It's a pattern from Sugar n Cream. The Royal yarn is from Peaches & Cream.

Another Ballband cloth in S&C Sunny Sky & the Valentine Candy Box from Monthly Dishcloths in Royal (Peaches & Cream.)
Nope, I haven't finished the toe-up socks yet. I don't even want to think about them right now.
Maybe I'll just knit another soap bag and wear the pair of them instead. Nifty.

If I haven't commented on your blog lately it's because I wasn't able to do so. Some blogs still won't let me do that. I still have things to figure out on the new net service & a slew of plugins to download. Whatever that means. ;)

Have knittingly good week, Y'all!