Tea cosies look great and they’re practical!  Not that I drink tea very often – I like my long black decaf coffee.

The pattern is a free one available here – it’s by a generous Australian known as Crochetroo.  She’s kindly provided the pattern in both Australian/UK terms and US terms.  I’ve become quite “bilingual” with crochet terminology to the extent that I wasn’t certain which I should follow!  I used a 4mm hook with 8 ply wool and acrylic.  My tea cosy turned out fairly small – I think it’s important to measure your teapot and then adjust the length of your starting chain according.  It could have done with another couple of rows of the scallops as well.

The scallops were a little tricky when I started off, but I quickly got into the groove!  I’d like to have another go at this pattern and make a much larger tea cosy.  But I have so many projects in the crochet queue already it may have to wait.