Festivity Tea Cozy, PDF pattern

About The Design

I love how these colors work together, as if the Natural color stitches are snowflakes falling on an early spring day, landing on the burgeoning color of the garden.

Colorwork is a great way to up those small leftover amounts of yarn, creating a happy tea cozy that will brighten every pot of tea, no matter the season!

Size

to fit a 2 cup / 4-cup tea pot

Finished Dimensions

Circumference: 16.5 / 19”

Height: 6 / 7.5” (excluding pompom)

Oddments of various Cascade Yarns were used totaling 69 / 98 gr. including the pompom = approx. 10 / 15 gr. each of 6 colors with an extra 10 gr. MC for each pompom.

The yardages listed above have 10% added, to allow for knitter differences.

Actual Yarns and Colors Used

Cascade Yarns Eco, 100% Peruvian wool, 478 yd. / 250 gr. hank: color #8010 Ecru (MC)

Cascade 220, 100% Peruvian wool, approx. 220 yd. / 100 gr. hank: color #9469 Hot Pink, held double (or use 1 strand Eco color #8456 Carmine Rose) (A)

Eco+ color #0507 Lipstick (B)

Eco+ color #7098 Merlot (C)

Cascade Yarns Baby Alpaca Chunky, 100% baby alpaca, 108 yd. / 100 gr. hank: color #581 Turtle (or use Eco+ color #2452 Turtle) (D)

Eco+, color #2749 Orange (E)

Note

I wanted to use up oddments of yarns I had on hand, and love how these colors work together Although yarns A and D are thicker than the others, they are only used for 3 rows at a time. I did make a little effort to knit the A and D sections more snugly, instead of employing the usual stranding tactic of spreading the work before knitting the 2nd color. I’ve listed the alternate Eco+ color numbers for these 2 yarns, if using the given yarn makes you nervous!

Gauge

20 sts and 26 rows = 4” (10 cm) in St st and 19 sts and 22 rows = 4” over stranded patt with size 8 ndls. To save time, take time to check gauge.

Substitute Yarn Weight: heavy worsted weight

Happy Knitting!

Dawn