Wow, what an incredibly busy week....
I took an order for a teapot cosy and six egg cosies. I've never made either before but thought yes, let me at them.

So, first to the Egg Cosies!

How apt in the run up to Easter to create some beautiful egg cosies. A friend wanted an alternative to chocolate for Easter to send to friends in Hong Kong and asked if I did egg cosies - they were so incredibly straight forward and relatively quick to make you would not believe it.

Here's how to have a go yourself...

I used a 3.5 mm hook and Rico Creative cotton yarn in various colours striped with a white.

Start with 2ch using the colour you want to create the stripe with (let's call this yarn A)

 



Round 1- 6dc in 2nd ch from hook

 

 

Round 2 - 2dc in each st round (this makes 12 dc in total)

 

Round 3 - change to white yarn (B), 2dc in each st round (total of 24 dc in all)

 

Tips - do not fasten off yarn as you go

        - do not ss to join each round as you go, make it a continuous spiral



 

Round 4 - change to yarn A and dc in each st around

Round 5-10 - change yarn each round  in order to create stripe effect and dc in each st 

The egg cosy will begin to curl into a beanie hat shape at about Round 6



 

Once you've completed Round 10, fasten off, sew in ends except for the first starting end. This is because I turned my egg cosies into egg bobble hats and so used this end in order to help attach the bobble! If you don't want a bobble, then sew in this end too.

My husband is the pompom king and he dedicated an evening to pompom making!

Useful tip - in order to make pompoms this small use a fork! Wrap the yarn around two tines on a fork and it keeps them small enough to suitably fit an egg cosy.



 

How cute are they?? Love 'em!

 

Hope you enjoy making these too...

 

Tea pot cosy to follow later this week.... how exciting!!