Sunday 7 August 2011

Tea time!

I needed a large tea cosy for our house in France, and was really pleased with how this simple, bold poppy scene turned out. 

I used some dyed merino in soft greens and blue-lilacs, and then added some wisps of  silk. The poppies were cut out of lightly prefelted red merino, and the stems were knitting wool. The whole thing was made around a plastic resist cut from a supermarket bag. It seemed huge, but I worked hard rolling it in a bamboo blind until it had fulled and shrunk down to the right size. It's lined with purple cotton. 
Felt is the perfect material for a tea cosy as it insulates so well and I know I am going to get a lot of pleasure from this one. 
Here is the other side - 

2 comments:

  1. Wow, poppies are my favourite flowers. Lovely !

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  2. Beautiful poppy field and very well done hand craft. Regards Senna

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