Traditional Tea Cozy

Hi, you guys. Welcome to our live event. I'm Brenda KB Anderson. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to make this adorable tea cozy. I called it the traditional tea cozy, um, because as I was doing research on tea cozies, I kept seeing knitted versions of this tea cozy, not, not necessarily with the flowers on top, but with these stripes and oftentimes like a pom pom on top.

Um, and I thought, what is going on with that cool pleated fabric? I want to learn how to do that. So I figured out how to do it knit wise, and then I translated it into crochet, and I'm here to show you guys how to do it. So I'm very excited about this technique. It's super fun and really not, it's not difficult.

It's basically single crochet with one little, one little twist, which I'll be showing you guys. So. Um, I'm glad you guys are here. If you want to say hi, tell me where you're crocheting from. Um, that'd be great.

Another thing that I was gonna ask you guys is, so, um, I have only recently begun to get kind of into drinking tea, and it's kind of funny. I think I've just been watching a lot of Bridgerton, and it's just sort of seeping into my subconscious, and now I want to drink tea all the time. Um, but if you guys have suggestions or want to tell me your favorite tea, I would love that. I would love to have some suggestions on things I should try, um, because I don't really know that much about tea yet. I just have been just trying random things that other people recommend to me, so I find that's a good way to do things usually, so.

Um, if you want to drop that in there, that'd be great. Um, yeah, if you guys have any questions about what I'm doing, if I do something too fast or I need to slow down or need to repeat something, please let me know. That's why we're doing these live events, so you guys can, you know, get extra help if I'm, you know, just to make sure that I'm explaining things thoroughly to you guys. All right, so there is a free download, the traditional tea cozy, you can find that in the description. Um, there should be a link there.

Um, so you can go ahead and download that now. It'll also be available later. No problem. You can just watch this now and, and get it later, um, once you're going to make it. Um, and, uh, the other, so, OK, so let's just start by talking a little bit about this tea cozy a little bit.

I just barely introduced you to this adorable thing. OK. So when I was, um, doing a live event, I don't know, it was months ago now, maybe even half a year ago now. Um, I oftentimes I ask people for suggestions on things that they would be interested in learning, uh, whether it's the type of project they want to make or a certain technique or whatever. If you guys have any ideas for future events, definitely put those in the chat as well.

Um, but somebody asked me to make a tea cozy and I thought, a tea cozy. OK, I can make a tea. I've never made a tea cozy, and then I started looking into making tea cozies, and that is that sort of coincided with my whole thing about learning, like starting to get excited about tea, and it all just kind of snowballed and I got really excited about it. So I'm very excited about this project, you guys. Um, but anyway, when I was doing research on tea cozies, I was like, how can you possibly teach a thing so everyone can make a tea cozy for their teapots cause they're all different, you know, different shapes, different proportions.

So, um, the way that this is written up, if you make it as written, um, it's kind of for this, let me just actually, I'll take this off so you guys can see what this teapot looks like. It's a pretty I wouldn't say standard cause I don't know if there is a standard, but these two teapots, they're totally different brands from completely different decades, but they had similar shapes to each other, and to me they looked um like fairly usual shapes for teapots. So I wanted to start out there making tea cozies for something that like, maybe the majority of people could make it just as written for their teapots. However, if you have a teapot that's like tall and And more narrow or has different, you know, handles in different places or whatever, um, definitely ask me if you feel like this is not going to fit your teapot, if you want to ask me for certain modifications, but I'll also be talking about ways you can modify the tea cozy, um, in order to fit different proportions of your teapot as well, because I realized not everybody's teapot is going to be shaped like mine. So, um, so we will talk about that as we go along.

Um, oh, OK, so let me bring this back in here. So this tea cozy. It's basically like a little hat for your little sweater for your your teapot, and it has a hole on on each end. So one is for the spout, one's for the handle. I have to be singing that.

Here's my handle, and here's my spout in my head right now. Um, and it just dresses on like this, you just place it over the spout. Have that come through and then I hold on to the spout and then I just pull it over the handle, just like that, and it's stretchy. There's no fastening, there's no buttons or anything like that. You could certainly add those if you wanted to, um, like maybe the space here, if you wanted to button that up, you could, um, but really it's It's just constructed in mainly two pieces that are stitched together, so that's gonna allow you to put the the openings wherever you need them for your spout, for your handle, OK?

So that it's very adjustable in that way. Um, and then, yeah, and then we have these cute little adorable three dimensional flowers on top to decorate it. They look even cuter. All right. Oh, Helene is here, uh, from Moorack.

I don't know where Moor Moorack. I don't know if I'm saying it right, but from California. Hello. Hi, Helen or Helene, I'm not really sure how you say your name. Um, you can also tell me that too.

Sorry if I'm mispronouncing it, but I'm glad you're here. Um, OK, so we're, we're obviously going to be needing a bunch of yarn for those projects. So I chose a, you know, a variety of different colors for the flowers. So there's 3 colors, you're going to need those 3 contrasting colors, plus a color for the center of the flower, also a color for the leaves. Now that that leaf color could be the same as some of the stripes.

If you wanted it to, I wanted it to stand out a little more, so I made that in a different green. Um, and then we have what I'm calling the main color in the teapot, which is the green. The only difference between the main color and the contrasting color is that we start out with the main color, so there's a stripe of the main color along the bottom, um, and the contrasting color in in this one is like an off white kind of color. I chose to make this out of a wool. This is 100% wool because I know how insulating wool is, and I really wanted my, you know, teapot cozy to be making my teapot tea very warm, right?

To keep it, keep it nice and cozy. So I am on purpose chose to design it in a 100% wool. Um, if you do not like to use wool, if you want to use something else, I think acrylic would work just fine. Um, I, I think you may wanna do a little test to just steam your acrylic or make some tea in a pot and set it on a little swatch of acrylic, just to make sure it doesn't do anything funny to your acrylic, like make it shiny or I don't think it's gonna melt it. Your teapot's not probably not gonna be hot enough for that, but Um, I did not test this out for an acrylic, but I have seen lots of acrylic tea cozies.

I'm pretty sure it would be just fine, but you might want to just do a little swatch, set a hot tea tea pot on top of it just to make sure nothing surprising happens to your tea cozy. Um, but yes, this is a worsted weight yarn, so it's a number 4. It's slightly on the thinner side than some of the worstweight yarns you might find in like a big box store, um. But yeah, so I'd say it's a pretty average size worst worsted weight yarn, um, and you could choose whether you want to do this in a washable wool, you know, if this is something where you're worried you're gonna get a lot of tea dripped on it and you're gonna want to throw it in the wash, um, or you can just do it out of a regular wool that's not, not a super washed wool, either way, then you just have to hand wash it, so. All righty.

Oh, Cindy's here, ginger turmeric tea. Oh, OK. I, I think that my husband has some of that. I haven't tried it yet, but I, yeah, I am excited to try that. Oh, and also I know that that's really good for you.

Especially like if you have a cold or something like that. Um, Oh, Bell's here again. OK, awesome. Oh, thank you for your compliments. That's so sweet.

I'm glad that you're here. Hello and hello to Carolyn, um, who I believe may have been in the last live as well, if I remember correctly. Hello, I'm glad you're here. All right. Oh, we've got a hello from Abu Abu Dhabi, wow.

Cool, I love it. I and someone from Tucson, Arizona, uh Carolina, Carolyn? I'm not sure how to say it, but hello and welcome everybody. OK, um, so. When, as I was saying before, when I was doing my research on tea cozies, cause I had it never occurred to me ever to design a tea cozy or like to even have one.

I was like, wow, this is really a thing. People love their tea cozies. It's been going on for centuries. I don't know how I missed all this, um. Yeah, and there's like forums talking about the tea cozies from Call the Midwife and all these different popular tea cozies.

I somehow missed all of that. So I'm, I'm very thankful that whoever it was that suggested I make it cozy, that they put that in the comments because it brought me down a really fun rabbit hole of tea cozies. Um, but while I was doing that, I noticed that there was So many of these, you know, tea cozy, like vintage tea cozy patterns that had these little pleats in it. And I was so curious about that. So I figured out, I taught my, or I learned from using the internet.

I learned how to make, um, the knitted version of this, and I thought, well, I can, we can certainly do that with crochet. Um, it really translated very, very well. So I want to show you what this looks like, um, just so you guys can see what we're doing here. So this fabric, I'm gonna to kind of turn it around. It's bumpy.

It's like corrugated or pleated. It's got all these little bumps and tucks that go in um on the outside, and it is stretchy, which makes this great for fitting different te teapots and also for getting it on your teapot and having it be nice and snug once you get it on, um, but it has this amount of stretch to it which is really cool, um. And you can see on the wrong side, here we have all these weird strands of um these are basically the unused strands when I switch back and forth between colors, because what we're doing. is we are switching back and forth between, you know, this is kind of like color work, but it's not, um, you don't have, it's, it's not the kind of color work that you have to look at a chart and then concentrate on really hard and make sure you put the color in the right spot. We're making columns of colors and when we switch back and forth between the two colors, we're we're using like the stranded tapestry style of of switching.

So you have like a little strand of yarn on the back. And when you switch back and forth between the between the colors, you pull on that yarn strand, and that does not allow your fabric to lay flat anymore. It kind of puckers it. And normally when we're working in color work, that like you don't want to do that. You want to avoid that, you're always checking to make sure you're not accidentally puckering your work, but In this case, we're using it as a design feature, um, and kind of highlighting that and creating this very cool.

Bumpy, textured, pleated, ribbed, I don't know what you want to call it, fabric that has, you know, it's just really good for keeping things warm cause it's got those channels of air and the wool, and it's just like the perfect thing. All right, so I'm gonna show you how to do this. It's not as hard as it looks. I know this might look kind of like Confusing or or weird, um looking at the back of it, but it's not as hard as it looks. All right.

So, um, I am, oh, I want to call attention to this because I made a mistake. I wrote down that I had used a G hook, which I did for the first tea cozy that I made, but that is not what this pattern is. So this is an, I used an H hook, which is a 5 millimeter hook, so I will get that fixed, but for right now, if you've downloaded this already, check in, check in, um. Check for where it says USG 4 millimeter. You're gonna change that to an H8 5 millimeter, OK, in your materials.

So that's the only, that's the only issue with it. You just need to change that. But also, it's more important to use whatever hook you need to in order to get the fabric you like and to get the size of the tea cozy, like to get it to work out on your teapot. We'll talk a little more about that as we go. Um.

In the pattern, you know, normally I have like a 4x4 gauge swatch, so you can test to see how your gauge is compared to mine. That way you'll know actually what hook to use. This is just the hook that I used for this project, um, and it's a place to start. You could certainly use a different, you, you should use a different hook size if it's not turning out to the correct size. Normally I have a 4x4 gauge swatch listed in my pattern.

This time I'm just telling you to make half of the tea cozy, which is about this wide, and then we're going to check it on the teapot because it just makes so much more sense. Otherwise you'd be spending a lot of time making something like this. But if you just made it a little wider, you could fit it on your teapot and just know all the information. You would know if you need to alter the pattern at all, or go up a hook size or go down a hook size or whatever it is you need to know, um in order for it to fit your teapot. So.

Um, OK, so I am going to start out by Making a slightly smaller swatch so that way it won't take me so long to get back and forth and really show you what's happening here in this stitch pattern. Um, so your initial foundation chain will be longer. Uh, let me get into that. I think you're gonna start with either 54 or 64, depending on the size. Oh yeah, 55 or 65, sorry, that includes the turning chain.

OK. 00, let me back up a little bit. So in this pattern download, there are two sizes of tea cozies, and I did write both of them down. One is for this size and one is for this size. So we have like a, I think this is like a 6 cup and this is a 4 cup.

Um, but I know that that is not always a standard. It doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be the same circumference if you have the same amount of cups in there. So I also did link where this teapot came from, this white teapot here. This was purchased on Amazon. I was looking for something.

that had dimensions that you guys could look at. Um, so you can check it out and know like it might help you compare it to your own teapot at home. Um, and it has a very similar proportions to this. This is my grandmother's teapot. Um, so I can't buy that on Amazon, but, um, But anyway, hopefully that will help you like determining your size.

Also, you can compare that to the circumference of your teapot cause I have all that information in the pattern download to figure out which size you want to make, um, and I will also be letting you know, like, ways to alter it if neither of those sizes work. But, um, if you are making the larger tea cozy that I patterned up here, you will start with a chain of 65, 65 chains in your foundation chain. If you're making one for the smaller, you would start with 55. As long as you are chaining on a multiple of 10 plus 4 more stitches, then the pattern is is going to work out just fine. So that if you have to add stitches, um, you'll have to add them in groups of 10.

If you need to subtract stitches, then you're going to subtract them in groups of 10, otherwise it's not gonna turn out right. OK. Or turn out as expected, I should say. All right, so I'm gonna start by actually chaining 34. I know that's not in my pattern, but I'm just doing a slightly smaller sample so you can see how this all works up and how, how to make those pleats.

So, 123. 45678. 9, 1011, 1213, 1415, 1617, 1819, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. Now you might be thinking, wow, that's a really long chain, Brenda. Isn't that gonna be like a little too big?

Like, how could a 60, like 65 inch chain would be enormous. But remember, this is pleated, so the fabric is much longer than you, you think, um, cause it goes up and down and up and down and up and down. So, until you've worked a number of rows in the stitch pattern, you're not gonna really know how wide your piece is gonna be. And, you know, because of this particular technique that we're working on here, you know, your gauge may differ from mine anyway, um. But it's just something to just keep in the back of your head when you first make that chain, it's gonna be way longer than you think it should be, and then you're gonna plead it up and it's gonna become much shorter.

OK, I think I only changed 34 and I need to actually change 35. I'm gonna be working across 3 or 4 stitches. OK. So, we're going to begin by working into the bottom of our chain. So, the top of your chain has all these little V's that kind of go across the bottom of your chain has all these little horizontal dashes like this, um.

Those horizontal dashes, that's what we're going to be working under. We're going to skip the very first chain from the hook, which is right there, and we're going to work a single crochet into the next chain, which is right here. So we insert, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through 2. There's our first single crochet. And we're just gonna continue making those single crochets all the way across the whole piece, the entire foundation chain.

OK? So we're gonna have actually two rows of single crochet worked all the way across. All right. So once you get all the way across in order to turn your work, let's just imagine, I just, I'm doing my last stitch right here. Then you would chain one.

Turn your work, just like you're turning a page in a book. You're gonna skip that chain because that is a turning chain. We are not counting turning chains as a stitch in this pattern. So we're going to skip that and go right into this first stitch right here and make a single crochet. And single crochet are way all all the way across.

OK, I know this looks weird. This is not what your piece should look like. Basically you're just making a foundation chain and then you're doing two rows of single crochet. So you're gonna have a long skinny piece. This is still much shorter than yours would be unless you're making it for a tiny teapot.

This is only um with 30, 34 stitches right here. So a multiple of 10 plus 4. Yours would be, you know, a bit longer. So you'd either have 54 or 64 stitches just depending on what size you're working on. All right, so this is where the exciting part starts to happen, you guys.

Put on your seat belts, it's gonna get crazy. All right, so we just got to the end of our 2nd row of single crochet right here. So we're going to chain one, we're going to turn our work, and we're going to do a single crochet into each of the first two stitches. So there's our first single crochet, there's our second single crochet, and before we complete our second single crochet, we are going to switch to the next color. So this is normally how we switch color when we're working in color work, um, in crochet.

Which is something that I love to do. Normally we um wait till the very last yarn over of the stitch before the color change. OK? So this is my second stitch in the main color. And I'm gonna take my contrast color and just lay it on top of my hook like that.

And then I'm just gonna pull that through to complete that 2nd single crochet, and here we are ready to go with our new color. Oh, there's lots of people pouring in here. That's awesome. Oh, we've got. Oh, Cindy's saying misfocus organic tumor ginger by habit tea, and it's wonderful for my arthritis.

Oh, OK. Do not heat water in the pot with the cozy in place, yeah, so this. So this would be for a teapot, not a tea kettle, so you would, you would heat the water in the tea kettle, and then pour it into your teapot and then put your and then dress your teapot with its beautiful sweater. Yes, correct. Um.

Hanna is saying, we don't use a teapot, but we might have to thrift one to make one of these boards really cute. Thank you. It is really nice having a teapot. I'm, I only, I've had this from my grandmother for a long time, but I've almost never used it. Um, and then my kids were like, Mom, we want to have a tea party, which is kind of funny cause they never cared about this when they were really little, you know.

Um, and so I pulled it out and I'm like, oh, this is why people have teapots, like, so you can like have multiple people sitting around drinking tea and you don't have to constantly be making more or pouring, I don't know, it just seemed very convenient. It's like finally I understand. OK. All right. Oh, Brett's mom's here.

Hi, thank you for the compliments. OK, so we have just pulled up our new color. OK, so we're ready to go with our new color. And we're just gonna let the old color just hang out back here. We're gonna need that later, so don't cut it off or anything, but just let it hang out there.

Um, and I should also mention the, this is row row number 3. Row number 3 is a right side row, so all of the um Uh, well, You'll see it'll be very, very obvious what the right side row is because it's the pleated side, the stranded side on the back is gonna be the wrong side row. So, the only reason I'm telling you this now is because we just want our yarn to hang on the opposite side, on the wrong side of what we're looking at right now. OK, so now we're gonna do 5 single crochets in this new color. So insert yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through 2.

Let's see. I wonder if. If I should, I'm gonna see if this helps uh no, that's the same color. Hm. I don't know if you guys can see that any better, that lighter color just doesn't seem like it was showing up too good on the, on the table.

Sorry. I chose two very contrasting colors so you guys could see the difference um between the two colors really well, but I guess I should have, um. Maybe brought a background for this one. OK, so we're gonna use our flowers as our background. So we're gonna do 5 single crochets here.

So this is #2. 3 4 And then here's our 5th 1, but on the 5th 1, we're going to change to the next color. So we're doing groups of 5 all the way across and then on the two edges we're just doing like a border of 2 stitches. I'll explain that a little bit more too as we go, but here's our 5th stitch, and now to complete that stitch, we're going to yarn over with the the old color, which is way back here. Remember we dropped it at the beginning here, so it's way over here.

And we're gonna just pinch this in half. We're just gonna fold that in half. So let me show you that one more time. So, here's our old color, that's where we dropped it. Right now we're looking, this is the wrong side of our work here, and we're bringing that all the way over.

So that when we yarn over and pull through, we're making a little pleat in our work. See how that won't let it lay flat anymore? We pulled it tight. This is like the thing when you're teaching people how to do tapestry crochet, but you're stranding it across the back. You have to keep saying now, make sure you're not pulling your floats too tight.

That's like float on the back where you just have that strand coming across. But in this case you do want to pull it, because that's what's going to create those pleats. You'll see this more. I'll, I'll keep working on it and you'll see it kind of unfold a little more. OK, so we're gonna do 5 stitches in this purple color, so 1.

2 3 4 and here's our 5th stitch. So we're going to insert yarn over, pull up a loop, and we're going to stop when we have those two loops on our hook, and we're going to finish our single crochet with this lighter color here. Oops, don't grab your beginning tail though, like I always seem to do. OK, so we're going to grab this color and we're just, I like to just kind of fold this so that they're closer together. So what we're looking at.

You know, this is the front of our work. We've got that pleat pinched together and it's pointing towards my body here. OK, so that we're making those pleats kind of come towards us, and when we pinch that, all of a sudden this is really nearby, right? Cause we're just kind of folding that out of the way. So we're just going to yarn over and pull through those two stitches.

And then when when I do that, I find that this loop always gets a little too long, so I just kind of tug on that last loop of the color that we just got rid of, and just let this hang to the back of your work now. Just hanging out back there. And we're going to do 5 stitches in this color, and on the 5th stitch we're gonna switch. 3 4, here comes the 5, this one. And we're going to switch to this purple color.

So again, I just kind of pinch this. Like that, and yarn over and pull through like that. And continue on, so one. To 3 4, and here's number 5. That's where we're gonna stop before our last yarn over, grab that new color or the color we're changing into, and pull through 2.

And we tug on the last little strand just to kind of tighten it down a little bit. Doesn't have to be super tight, it just tends to get kind of loose. One. To 3 For And here's number 5. There's we're pinching it, and we're just grabbing that and pulling it through.

One To 3 For And here's, we're stopping on number 5, so we can yarn over, do our last yarn over with the next color. We're right there. And then I'll pull on that little last yarn tail tighten it down a little. And here's our last two stitches. So 1 and 2.

So now, no matter how many um chains you started with, Every time you. Uh, are going back and forth. You're always going to be working in 5 single crochets at a time. So you'll switch, you'll do 5 colors or 5 stitches in one color, then you'll on that, on that 5th stitch, you'll switch to the next color. 5 stitches in the next color on that last single crochet, the last yarn over, you'll switch to the next color.

So it's always in groups of 5. So you're alternating between those stitches. So 5 of the light, 5 of the dark, 5 of the light, 5 of the dark. So that's all, no matter what size you're working on. That's how you're going to be um working your color work.

It's always going to start out on the right side row. It's going to start out with that main color, so two stitches in the main color, then you alternate those fives all the way across, and then you'll have two stitches in the contrasting color on the very end. OK, so that's, you know, that's the same no matter what size you're working on. OK, so we're gonna chain one, and we're gonna turn, and now we can see our wrong side rows. Now this is a little messy looking at first.

It's a little and it does get easier to stitch into at the beginning. It's like it's all curly and it just kind of drives you crazy for a few rows, but when you get into it, you can see that it's like really obvious, the front row, the back row, and it's the fabric's already been pinched for you because it's being like. Restricted by all these floats back here. So it's, you don't have to keep pinching it every, I mean you can kind of pinch it a little bit, but it's not. What I'm trying to say is it might seem like the first couple of rows are a little bit of a struggle cause it's a new thing that you're trying out and you're like, what is happening?

And also, this is annoying to have to pinch it every time, Brenda. Um, but it does get much easier, I promise. OK. So here we are looking at the wrong side rows. We're gonna do two single crochets, one.

And 2, and now you might notice. These single crochets right before the color change, you know, the, the previous rows, single crochets, right before the color change, they get a little small and a little bit tighter. You can still get your hook through just fine. You can loosen that up, um, but just don't miss them. So it's helpful if you can count your stitches for a little while until you kind of get into the rhythm and you can see those stitches hiding a little bit.

OK, here's my second single crochet. Now I'm going to bring this yarn towards me. So it's gonna be on, this is the wrong, remember this is a wrong side row we're doing. It's gonna sit on the wrong side. Then we're gonna take this color.

And then we're gonna yarn over with that, OK? So we're switching. And then we just kind of pull this out of the way. So you just want to tuck it down into that little groove there. And then you're going to do some single crochets, so you're doing 5 single crochets, 3 For, and here's the 5th 1 that kind of wants to be small and hide there.

5, but before we do our last yarn over, we're gonna bring this down to the front. OK, so here I'll put my thumb under it so you can see I'm bringing that yarn down to the front. And then I'm going to bring this yarn over, and we can pinch that and bring it a little closer like this, OK? So this strand is not allowing it to lay flat anymore. That's what's creating those pleats.

Now we're going to continue in this color, the light color, so one. 2 3 For here's the 5th 1. Before we complete that, we're gonna bring this lighter color. Towards us. And then we're gonna pick up the darker color and allow that to kind of fold right there.

And we'll bring that through. And then we're gonna do our next stitch. So just make sure that this is always sitting on the wrong side. Sometimes the wrong side will be facing you, like right now. Sometimes the wrong side will be on the opposite side.

Just depends, you know, on whether you see the pleats or not. So just be aware that it should always be hanging, they should always be hanging to the wrong side. So I'm gonna bring that down. Like that. Bring this one over.

Just just switching switching up my yarns and making kind of like a. You know, a tighter float across the back. That's what's gonna push that fabric into that pleat shape. Bringing it to the towards me, and I'm gonna switch to this other, so I kind of just pinch that with my thumb there. And pull through.

Here are my 5 stitches, 1. 2 3 For Here's the 5th stitch. Pinch. And bring that through. 1 23.

For And 5. You don't have to count them as long as you don't miss that last stitch, as long as you have trained yourself to always be looking for that stitch that's just a little bit smaller. And here are the last two single crochets of our row. So when we do those, we don't have to carry this along. We just leave it there because we're going to chain one and turn, and we're gonna work our way back in the same color.

12, and then at that point, before we finish that, that's when we drop that one, and we're gonna pick up this one. And yarn over with it to change color. And so we're all ready. To begin working in this color. So 10 no, I grabbed the wrong, I grabbed the yarn tail, OK.

I knew I would do that. OK, here it is. Let me get that out of the way. There we go. So I'm, like, you just gotta make sure you're not crocheting with the yarn tail.

And maybe just weave that in. That would be good, actually. Um, OK, so here we go, working those five single crochets. 34, and here's our 5th 1. You can kind of help it by pinching that little bit.

That brings your yarn closer and pull through those two stitches. So I'm gonna continue working across this road so you can kind of see it start to take shape. Um, but you know, the majority of this section of the The teapot is just made like this. So you just go back and forth and back and forth, and it's, you know, it, it, it's slower than just doing regular single crochet, but you are crocheting a lot longer distance here and you're doing some pretty cool stuff, um, making these pleats. So give yourself a little extra time when you are working on this project.

It's very fun. It's really cool to make such an interesting, I mean, this is, I've never made a stitch that was like this before, so it was very fun for me. We have somebody who's watching from Kazakhstan. That's awesome. Tea cozy is my favorite project.

I have, I have too much tea cozy, so. Too many tea cozies. uh oh. Is there such a thing, I suppose. Maybe not though.

Well thank you for joining us, everybody. OK. Oh, Cindy's gotta go. OK, she'll join for the replay squad. Yeah, you guys can always watch, always watch these later, which is great.

So even if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, or, you know, we're, we're streaming when, you know, it's not a convenient time for you, you can always watch them later. Or as you're working on them, if you have a question, you can come back to it later. Oh, we've got a favorite of Earl Grey. OK, thank you, Janet. All right.

I have had some Earl Grey teas, and I, I did like them. I don't know though. I, I don't know if I would, if like we had a blind taste test of a bunch of tea. I don't know for sure that I'd be able to, I, I don't know if I'm good enough at understanding the flavors yet to be able to know what it was, but I did like the one that I had, or a couple of them that I had. OK, so you can see, look at this as rippling now.

You can kind of see those strands on the back, they're holding it, they're keeping it from being able to be a long flat piece. You can see it's much shorter now. So as you work on this, and you get it a little bit, you know, further along, um, you can maybe just like even another inch or something, just start trying it on your teapot. Now this is gonna be too small for my teapot. I know this because it really needs, I mean, I designed it and it has to be 50.

54 inches for this one. But then you'll just kind of bring it over to your teapot, check it, like you're going to be stitching one side to the other right above the spout, right below the spout. So it does, it doesn't, you know, this is usually the widest part of your te teapot because it kind of usually rounds out a little bit, but it doesn't have to go from the center of the spout. It can kind of split, um. From the side of the spout over to somewhere by the handle.

So I check it in a few places. I check it at the bottom, just kind of try to visualize, check it at the top, um, although we're going to be decreasing there, check it in the middle. That is probably the most important part is checking to see if you think it's going to be um the right size at where it's at its widest point. So, um, let me show you, once you get a little further along, working, you know, you're just gonna continue working back and forth and back and forth, and every time you're working from this side, you have to have your, you, when you're not using your yarn, you're gonna bring it to the wrong side rows, you know, you're gonna bring it to the back. And every time you're working across this way, you're going to start to see those strands.

You're going to remember, oh, OK, I gotta let my yarn hang out on the side of the work that I can see here, OK? So no matter what, when you're not working on that, if you're dropping a strand, drop it to the side where all this stranded stuff is going on, OK? Just remember that. Um, OK, so this is worked all the way up through rows 16, which is um I think row 16, um, for, for my tea cozy, although I, I have to tell you I was making this with a smaller crochet hook for a different teapot, so this one's gonna be a little bit smaller than um if I had been working it with the H hook like I should, but Um, just a smidgy, but you can kind of, once it gets a little taller, you can check it on your, on your teapot, um, and just make sure as you're going, that it's going to be working out. Now, so this is the part where if it's not working out, you can either, if it's too small, you can go up a hook size, and if, and maybe if it's just a little too small, you can just go up a hook size and you'll be OK, or if it's a little too big, you can go down a hook size, make it a little tighter.

That's OK too. But if you feel like it needs to be a little more drastic of a change, then you can add to your piece. You can add or subtract 10 stitches from the foundation chain. So, Because each of these color changes, this is 5 and this is 5, so we have a total of 10, so that's your repeat. So you can, you know, add or subtract 10 stitches, and what that's going to do, it's not just going to add or subtract this amount, it's going to double it because remember you have two sides to your teapot.

This is only one side, so if you change it, say you removed, you know, 10 stitches. You're also gonna be removing 10 stitches from the opposite side of your teapot. So, um, It's just one of those things you're just gonna have to try it on your teapot if you have a different size teapot and just sort of adjust and then just keep checking it once you get one side to the right, um, width, then you know that how to crochet the second side. All right, so then once you're ready to start doing the decreases, because we're gonna make decreases to shape the top of our, of our cozy, right, to come in here a little bit. Once you start getting ready for the decreases, let me show you how those are worked.

So we have just finished working a wrong side row here. And then we would. Chain 10 yeah, I was doing this one in for my tiny teapot, so I'm gonna continue with this. So just ignore the fact that I'm using a G hook here. Um, chain one, turn your work.

We're going to do a single crochet into each of the first two stitches. We're going to change to the next color, so I'm just gonna lay this down, grab that next color. Yarn over with the next color, pull on this strand a little bit here. And I'm going to work 3 single crochets in this color, one. To 3, and now we've got 2 more stitches left and we're going to do a single crochet 2 together, just a regular single crochet 2 together.

So we're going to insert yarn over, pull up a loop, then we're going to insert yarn over, pull up a loop in the next stitch. Now we have 3 loops on our hook, and we're going to yarn over and pull through all 30 wait, but before we pull through all 3, we got to switch to the next color. I almost forgot. So we're going to lay this across our work, grab that. Yarn over, pull through all three, and now we're ready to go for the next section of color.

So we'll crochet 31. 2 And here, uh, 3, this is the, these are just single crochets. Now we have 2 stitches left, so insert you're over, pull up the loop. Insert your over pull up a loop. There's 3 loops on our hook.

And we're gonna grab that lighter color. And yarn over with that. We're still pinching and making those floats nice and short. And we're gonna do 3 single crochets, 3 You know, uh, insert, you're over pull up a loop, insert you're an over pull up a loop. We're gonna drop that color.

In your work. Yarn over and pull through 3 with that new color. And then we're gonna do 3 single crochets, 1. To 3 And here's our single crochet two together while we're switching to the next color. OK.

So you may notice, as you're working across, that there are strands here, um, of course, we know there are strands there, but If you are somebody who does a lot of tapestry crochet, you might be like, oh, should we just crochet over those strands? I don't know if I like those strands. If you do that, it's going to flatten out your piece. So do not try to incorporate those strands that are floating there into your stitches. I know sometimes we just have a tendency to want to kind of hide all that stuff.

This just has to be on the inside of your tea cozy. It's not gonna hurt anything, I promise. All right, so I've got 3 stitches, uh, 3 single crochets here. And we're going to make a single crochet two together. And we're dropping that yarn, picking up the next color.

We're gonna bring that a little closer. Make that yarn over or just make the yarn over kind of tightly, however you want to think about that. And you're ready to go with the next color. Just like that. It's not that hard.

I mean, at first it's a little bit awkward and weird to be pinching your yarn, but it will just become part of the rhythm. And once you've gone, you know, once you've done a few rows, those pleats are already going to be there. It's gonna be real easy to just grab it, pinch it, pull it through, honestly. It's um it's, it's very fun to do. All right, so we're doing our decreases all the way across.

We're always going to be making that decrease on the last two stitches right before the color change, OK? And you'll get all the way across and you do one single crochet into each of the last two stitches, chain, and turn. Then there's 3 rows that you just work even. Work even means you're um you're not increasing, you're not decreasing, you're just putting one stitch. Into each stitch.

You're still doing the pleats, you're still changing colors as you normally would. But now, because we did our decreases on this row, you're only going to be working 44 stitches in each color when you're alternating. So 44444, you're just going to alternate, um, but you're just going to be, you know, placing the same color into each color stitch. It's very easy to keep track of where you're at because there's, first of all, these pleats here and you know how many stitches are supposed to be across in each section. So it's pretty simple.

Um, oh, looks like Helene is saying, I'm a collector of, or Helen is a collector of teapots, and my daughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughter love to go to tea and have the parties. Awesome. My 12 year old granddaughter crochets and will also enjoy making this. Oh, that is so awesome. I love that.

Cool. Oh, we've got someone from oh, Janet from England. Yes, of course. I know you guys love your tea over there. I actually, um, was able to go to England and I had tea and I was just like amazed by all the little, all the care that gets put into it, all the little sandwiches and the pastries and all the different teas, and it was very, it was very fun.

OK. Um, oh, Hannah's saying instead of carrying the yarn across the back, we leave it where it is and bring it in from where it's at. Yes, exactly. So I think what you're saying is like, instead of just, you know, normally when we're doing a color work project, we would be stitching our way across like this. I'll get to my little decrease here.

And then normally we would strand it across the back and we'd be very careful not to pull on this, all right? So it allows our piece to be nice and flat. But instead of just, you know, stranding it over, you just bring the two pieces closer to each other. You leave it where it is, basically, and then you yarn over and it it forces it to just pop forward into that little pleat. So, uh that is actually, um, yeah, that is very, very fun to do, you guys.

I really hope you guys try this out. OK. So you're gonna work back and forth when you're shaping the top to kind of bring it in, doing those decreases. You're only decreasing on the right side rows, and at the beginning, the frequency is like you, you decrease on the row that I was showing you where you decrease from 5 stitches in the color to 4, then you're gonna do 3 rows where you work even. Then on the next row, you're going to decrease from 4 to 3, so you're gonna end up with 3 after you do that row.

Then you're gonna do another 3 rows even. This is all in your pattern, by the way, you don't have to memorize this. And then after that you're going to decrease from 3 stitches in each color, or, you know, before switching colors down to 2, and then you only do 1 row even, working across the wrong side row. And then on the next row, you're going to do single crochet um so that you end up with only one stitch in each color across. OK, so you're going to do another decrease row.

I hope that makes sense. It's all written in the pattern, just as long as you remember you're only decreasing on the right side rows and just follow your pattern. If you're if you're reading it through your pattern, you're like, uh, it's too wordy. If you just want to cheat a little bit, and you look at the end of the row, if there's something in that tells you the stitch count changed and it says how many stitches decreased. Just know you did a decrease row.

And anytime you do those decrease, crease rows, you're always, you're decreasing in every single, once in every single section of color. OK. It doesn't matter what size you're working on or whatever, um, you know, just, you just stitch your way across until there's two stitches left in that color and then they will crochet them together, move on to the next color if that makes sense. So if you're like looking through here, wondering where all the decreases are, just kind of cheat and look at the end if you don't want to read through everything, then you'll just know um where you decrease, which rows you have to decrease on. So once you get that all shaped, um, let me see, I've got one more row to do on this piece.

So this is what my piece is looking like. I just did a row of decreasing, so I have one stitch in each color across, then I worked one more row across, or one more wrong side row. And on the very last row, you're only working it in the, you know, whichever color you want, honestly, because it's underneath the flowers. Nobody's ever going to see this. Um, I just left it in the main color, so I um chain one and turn, and I'm going to do single crochets, uh, one single crochet into each of the first two stitches.

Wait, let me just double check. Single crochet, yeah. So we're leaving, this is basically a salvage where these two stitches are on each end. So there's one there and there's one here. Think of that as being like a, a seam allowance um for when we're sewing this together.

So you're gonna leave your seam allowance alone, putting one single crochet into each stitch, you're not decreasing your seam allowance at all. We're just keeping it the same. Then when you get to this part where you're switching back and forth, the very last row, you're going to just single crochet them. Two together all the way across the color works section. So that's what I'm doing here, so.

Insert yarn over, pull up a loop, insert you're over, pull up a loop, you're an over, pull through 3. OK, we're just doing that all the way across until we have 2 stitches left. And here's those two stitches, and then you can just make one stitch into each of the last 2 stitches, just like that, and that's it. So, we're gonna fasten off and leave yourself a good long yarn tail. And we're just gonna pull that through.

Fasten that off. And you will make a second one of these, so you're gonna have 222 halves basically. Um, and actually, you know, the whole time you're working on this, maybe have your teapot nearby so that you can just be checking and making sure that your, your decreases are shaping to to your teapot. You know, you may find that you have to rip back a little and do a couple more rows in between. If you have like a more gradual top tier teapot.

I've seen some of those really taller ones, then you're gonna have more rows in between where you're not um doing any decreasing, OK, if that makes sense. Like your decreased rows should be less frequent and you can make it a little bit taller. And after you have. Gone all the way through. Um, you can go ahead and cinch up this top, or you can try it on your teapot and see what you like, you may find that you don't.

You don't want to cinch it up, um, if you needed to like keep going and finish up the little top, you could just keep turning and decreasing a little bit more or working some rows even just depending on what the top shape of your of your teapot is. But for, I think most teapots, it'll work just fine to just Um, cinch up the top. Let's see, I'm gonna get to the finishing section here. Oh. OK.

Um, So you can, you can leave this open until later, or you can go ahead and run that yarn tail through each stitch and pull it tight to kind of tighten up the top, which is what I'm gonna do for this little teapot. I think it would probably work for most teapots. Bring it across to the side here. So I ran that yarn using my yarn needle through, and now I can kind of pull this together. And just kind of check the fit.

I think that's gonna be just fine. It's nice and stretchy. OK, so, at this point, you're gonna take your two halves. And Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cinch up the top of this half as well. I didn't do that yet.

Here's my second half. All right, almost there. All right, so we're just gonna cinch that in. And we'll end up stitching that a little bit more later. Here I'm gonna do one little stitch so it doesn't doesn't undo.

OK. So, because we made these exactly the same, see, they're not mirror images of each other, they're just made with the exact same directions. When you place them together, The color striping is going to continue. So, like, here's our two little selvages. We're going to sew those together, but you can see it goes from purple to gray, right?

Because we made these exactly the same way. Um, so I'm going to set that on top of my teapot, and this is the part that's probably the most awkward of this whole, this whole project because you just kind of have to Just check the fit, pin them together, or use stitch markers like I'm doing here. Oops, where did that go? There we go. I'm pinning them together where the, what I like to think of as the seam allowances, those two like columns of two single crochets where they meet up.

We're gonna be pinning those together. And we have what we do, what we have to do is we have to figure out how far we want to sew this and still have room for the. The handle and this about to come out. So you really have to just sort of fit it on your own teapot to know. Here we go.

It looks like. Maybe here, also these two together here. Yes. And down here, there's really not gonna be a very long seam. Probably only like 1 inch or so on the very bottom.

So I mean it just, it's too awkward for me to do that. So I know there's gonna be about 1 inch stitched together down here. So I'm gonna pin that, well, by using my stitch markers. I'm just holding those two seam allowances held together here. All righty.

All right, and then I think this other side, let me get this out there. There we go. Other side. Oh, there's not much room on my teapot. There's like less than 1 inch even really here.

It's probably only gonna be able to be stitched just a little bit at the very bottom. All right. OK, so I'm gonna go ahead and sew these together. I'm gonna flip this so that it is wrong side out, so I can see what I'm doing a little bit better here and hopefully you guys can too. I gotta take care of this um insane amount of yarn ends I have hanging out.

I'm always so reluctant to cut off my yarn tails, cuz I think, what if I need that? OK. OK, so I hope this is clear enough what I'm saying here that these two, like you've got those columns of two single crochets at the beginning and at the end of all of, you know, both of your pieces. So we are going to go ahead and stitch those together right where they change colors. So see how the gray changes to purple here, right along this line, we're going to sew that line to this line right here.

And so you can do that and, you know, you can do that by just laying them together like this. And you can just sew them together with one of the the yarn tails here you have available to you. But you have to make sure that the pleats are not getting, like, so for example, this pleat, it might end up getting stuck this way and you might catch it. So you just have to make sure the pleat is out of the way. You can just be feeling that with your fingers, you can feel that kind of lump if it it fits in the way.

So I'm going to do a back stitch. You can do, you know, go back and forth in just a running stitch if you want to, as long as it's sturdy, it doesn't really matter, and I'm only sewing down to this point where I had pinned it with my stitch marker. So to do a back stitch, um, because I'm right handed, I'm always going to have my needle facing to the left, and I'm going to go in. This is where my yarn is coming out. I'm going to go in behind and take a whole stitch forward.

Like this, and then I take a half a stitch back. Or you might think of it as 2 steps forward, 1 and 2. And then one step back. So every time you put your needle in, you're putting it behind where it came out. OK, I've got a couple more stitches left here.

Alright. And I noticed I, I really liked having this seam allowance sort of pushed out of the way. So I actually ended up catching that seam allowance right there with this little kind of section where, see how the, there's the purple strands and they come towards the gray strands right in the middle where it switches. That's where I'm stitching the edge of that seam allowance too, cause I just liked it to remain open. Um, but this is the kind of thing where you probably just wanna try it on your teapot, see how it's working.

Maybe you don't need to stitch this part down. Or maybe you don't want to either. I don't know, but I, I just sort of liked how it looked when it was folded out of the way a little bit. So you don't actually see that little other color seam allowance sticking out. So I'm gonna do that.

Just catching Um, that area where the, where we change colors. And now here we are back at another little seam we need to make. This is the seam that um is just below where the bottom of the handle comes out. I'm just gonna remove that and get that out of the way. So I'm gonna be sewing these two layers.

Together. Using the same back stitch and I'm gonna go around. That bottom edge there. OK. So we would do the same thing where we're stitching that seam allowance down out of the way, if you want to.

You don't have to, that part is optional. And I'm going to sew the other side, and then I'm gonna talk a little bit about those flowers. I'll show you how to make one. We're not just going to talk about it. I'll show you how to make one.

OK, so here we are on the other theme. I'm gonna be sewing to here, and then I'm going to be sewing down here as well. Sewing over the edge a little bit there, just to make sure that stays nice and flat. And then I'm gonna just be doing that a back stitch here. And you know, if you have a different method, you prefer to sew, that's completely fine.

You don't have to do it the way that I'm doing it. I'm just, I just wanted you to have, um, you know, all the tools and understand like how I put mine together and You know, you're the boss of your own projects, you can do what you like. All right, I have just a little bit further to go, but I'm gonna take this stitch marker out here cause it's getting in the way. So this is the side. With the spout.

So that's another thing is if, you know, you don't think you're gonna remember which side is which. You could put a little tag or a little something to indicate what the front is or where the spout is, if that's helpful to you. All right, I am going to fold the seam allowance to the inside. And stitch it down. Right here, and that allows me to kind of keep using the same strand of yarn.

Or when I when I stitch the other part like this little section down here. And you just want to be careful when you're stitching this down that you're not making like a big you don't want to make a big stitch through here so you see it. Um, so I, I have my finger held behind and I can feel if my yarn, I mean, if my needle comes through the fabric. I'm just trying to grab like a little strand or so, kind of. Um, going within the fabric but not popping out the other side, if that makes sense, for when I'm stitching these down.

And like I said, you don't have to stitch these down, you can just see how it looks. Um, I just thought it looked a little tidier if they were out of the way. All right. I'm gonna pull these out and. Stitch this little last seam here.

Oh, Dolores is saying hello from Belize. hello, Dolores. Welcome. I love that we can all craft from all over the world. That's just so amazing to me still.

I know I shouldn't be surprised since I do these tutorials, you know, like 2 or 3 times a month, I should probably stop being surprised by that, but every time somebody tells me where they're stitching from, I'm always like, so excited about it, you guys. So cool. OK. All right, so. I don't know if I love that in very well.

Just gonna give it one more little push. OK, and so then I would also be stitching the other side of this opening down. I would just kind of tack that down, um, cause I think it looks better to do that. Up to you though, however you like. I'm gonna cut that off cause I won't need that.

Just kind of trying to get rid of some of these extra, the extra craziness. I still want to be able to weave them in later, but I just, there's too much. OK, you guys. So now, after you get your pieces stitched together like that. Um, then we can like really close the top of this up.

I think, um, laying it on top of your teapot though is a good idea before you do that. The cool thing about this is you've got like, it's almost like having a dress form if you're making a little stripy dress. Look how cute this is looking, adorable. OK, so now I am going to close the very top here. And then we can start making a flower.

Right. Let's see. So even if you cinch that as tight as it will go, it still isn't going to be able to completely close probably cause there's a lot of um fabric in there, so then you can just kind of sew it shut, like in a couple of directions. Like this. Here we go.

And this does not have to look perfect right here because, well, first of all, we're not robots, but second of all, um, this is going to get covered up by those flowers. And I think, I suspect that part of the reason why so many of these tea cozies have like pom poms and things on top is just to make that part look a little bit more finished and decorated and cover up any funniness that might happen with gathering stuff together or however it's been constructed. So, yeah. Don't you worry, we're gonna cover that up with pretty flowers, or you could put a pom-pom on it if you're into pom poms. All right.

So I'm gonna get rid of that. So this is what it's looking like so far. We have that little slit there. We have a little slit here. Oops, that's not very, I gotta tuck that, um, see, this is why I like to sew the seam allowance down, so I'm gonna tuck that to the inside there.

I will be doing that later. Um, because my handle is kind of long here. I mean, I thought about putting a little button with a button loop here to keep it a little tighter, and then I decided against it because I'm like, am I really going to do that? Probably not. I'll just pop it over and have some tea.

I really don't think I'm going to fiddle with the button. But if, you know, if that's something, depending on how your teapot is shaped, you may, you may want to do that. You may want to have like a little extra button loop or something like that if it's, there's a really long space on your handle. OK, so let's get to the flour. I will demonstrate with this lighter pink here, but you can choose whatever colors you like.

So we're gonna start with a chain of 10. So, 123456789, and 10. And then we're going to do um in the 2nd chain from the hook, so there's the 1st chain, here's the 2nd chain. We're gonna do a half double crochet. Then we're gonna chain 21 and 2, then we're gonna do another half double crochet in the same chain, just like that.

Now we're gonna do that in every chain across. So here's a half double crochet, chain 2, and another half double crochet into the next chain. Half double crochet. Chain 2. And another half double crochet into the next chain.

OK, so each chain. Gets half double crochet, chain 2, half double crochet. And it's gonna start to curl, cause we're making a lot of increases here, have double crochet, chain 2, half double crochet. Double crochet, chain to have double crochet. If you guys um are excited about this sort of embellished crochet with flowers and things like that, I did a class on Crafty that is out now um called Embellished Crochet, and we make a lot of these kind of extra applique flowers to go on things, and they teach you how to decorate stuff with Neo felting and embroidery with yarn.

It's just kind of a fun, um, fun way to decorate your crocheted or knitted knitted things that you make. You guys are interested in checking that out, it's um it's pretty cool. All right, so, we've finished up with our last chain. Now we're going to chain one, turn our work, and then you can pretty easily see those chain two spaces. If you can't see them, you can certainly feel them.

You can put your little finger in there and You know, not where they are. We're gonna be working into all those chain 2 spaces. So in each chain 2 space, you're gonna do a slip stitch, chain one. Two double crochets, 1. 2 chain 2.

Slip stitch in the 2nd chain from the hook. Two more double crochets, 1. Do Jane one And then slip stitch in the very same chain too. So that was all in the first chain 2 space. All right, I'm gonna do that again.

Slip stitch. Jane one Two double crochets. 1 and 2. Chain 212, slip stitch in the second chain from the hook. 2 more double crochets.

One And 2 chain 1. Slip stitch. And that completes that chain too, so we're gonna continue doing that all the way across. Slip stitch chain one. Two double crochets.

Sorry, I'm gonna go a little quicker now cause we're running out of time. Chain 2, slip, stitch in the second chain from the hook. Two double crochets. Jane one slip stitch. Right, so that made it the 3rd puddle.

Slip stitch chain 12 double crochets. Jane 2. I know it seems like a lot to memorize, but you, you'll, by the time you do the 3rd flower, you'll, you'll be like, oh, I know how to make these, no problem, locked away in that brain forever. And you know, this probably goes without saying, but you can certainly make a different amount of flowers. You just decorate it however you like on the top.

I just made 3, but you could certainly do more or fewer. Like one really big one, if you wanted to, if you wanted to make one with a whole bunch of petals, you just start out with a bigger foundation chain. Oops, here's my two double crochets. 2 slip stitch. 2 double crochets.

Chain 1, slip stitch in the same chain to space. And we'll do it again. We have 2 more after this one. So if you guys are hanging on to any other questions, definitely get them in. So we're gonna be wrapping this up pretty soon here.

All right, one more pedal. And then I'll show you how to make this look like a flower, cause right now it looks like a blob. one slip stitch, and we're gonna slip stitch to fasten off and leave yourself a decent size yarn tail because you're gonna use that to sew your flour together and onto the teapot. All right, so when you're done with that, turn your work so the pedals kind of curve this way. This is what I think of as being the right side for this project, and you see these 3 1st pedals, here we have our yarn tail, or those are the last 3 we made.

We're going to make those into a circle. Basically we're connecting this pedal to the third pedal like that. So we've got a basically a triangle of those 3. OK, so if you pinch it at that point, then you should be able to wrap the rest of them around and have the very end. And right there, so there's at least 2 petals, um, or 2 layers, I should say, um, all the way around your flower.

It's probably a good idea to thread the yarn needle um before you start doing that, otherwise you'll probably drop it. And then you're just going to oops, where did that come from? There we go. Um, you're just going to use your yarn tails to stitch through the layers there. So you wanna make sure you're getting all the layers.

I'm just sewing Right through the section uh center of this flower here. All right, so I would do that a little more to make sure it's all tacked down. Then you're gonna make a flower center, and those are super easy. It's just basically like one random bottle. So we're gonna chain 3.

So, 12, and 3, and then we're gonna make 6 double crochets into the third shade from the hook, but we're gonna hold back on that last yarn over for every one of them. So what that looks like is this. So we'll yarn over. Insert you aren't over, pull up a loop, you aren't over, pull through 2 and stop. Now we're going to do that 5 more times.

One. To 3 4 And 5. Now we have 7 loops on our hook, and we're gonna yarn over and pull through everything all at once, and then we're just going to chain one, and then we can go ahead and cut our yarn and pull that through. And so we've made just this cute little ball. That, you know, you can kind of poke in there with your finger to kind of round it out a little bit more.

We made this very adorable little ball that's going to be the center of our flower. So you can go ahead and sew that on. And then you can sew the entire flour to the top of your tea cozies. So you'll probably um need to pin those in place or just set them all on there. It's pretty sticky, they might stay.

And then I ended up just stitching through the middle of the flour, then adding, you can, you can either sew this to the flour first and then sew the bottom of the flour on, or you can sew this part of the flour on through the middle and then sew this on top. It does not matter what order you do that in, but you'll have 3 of them. But I would definitely place all three to get a feel for where you want them to be before you sew any of them on. OK, so you'll get all three of your flowers made. And then the last thing I'm gonna show you is the leaves.

So I'm gonna be doing these in a lighter green, so hopefully you can see them a little better. The leaves, we're just going to start out with by chaining 9. And I do, by the way, I do have a stitch diagram for the flower. I don't have one for the leaves because they're so simple. So we're going to chain 9123456789, and then we're going to start by placing a slip stitch in the second chain from the hook.

So that's right here. And then a single crochet into each of the next two stitches, one. 2. Half double crochets into each of the next two, so yarn over, insert, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through 3, that's a half double crochet. We'll do that again right here.

And then we'll do a double crochet in the next stitch. And then we're going to do, let's see, I think it's 2 double crochets. Yes. So we're going to do 2 double crochets into each of the next 2 chains. So here's our first double crochet, our second double crochet, and now we get to the very last chain, we're going to do 2 more double crochets.

So yarn over, insert, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over, pull through 2, and we'll do that one more time. And now we're just gonna to let our piece keep rotating. And we're gonna make basically a mirror image of what we just made. So that same chain we've already just been working in, we're gonna do 2 more double crochets. So 1.

2 And then 2 more double crochets in the next. Uh, next chain. So these are, this is the original foundation chain. We're just working into the opposite side of it, the opposite loops. Then the next stitch is a double crochet.

And then 2 half double crochets, one in each of the next 2 stitches. And 2 single crochets, one. And 2, each into their own stitch, sorry, um, I should have said that. And then the last stitch is just a slip stitch here. And then we can cut our yarn.

Leave yourself a good long yarn tail, because you're gonna use that to sew it to your piece. So you'll get all of your flowers. Pinned on to the top of your little tea cozy, and then in between where your flowers are sitting, you're going to tuck those little leaves in there and sew those in place. So I did actually sew my flowers first, and then I just kind of moved them out of the, like peeled their their petals up a little bit so I could access that and get then, you know, get those little leaves in between your flowers and add those on top, and it makes a lovely arrangement. OK.

Looks like I'm all caught up with questions, and that is it. Thank you guys so much for joining me. I really appreciate you guys being here and giving me some tea suggestions, um, and I'll be looking into that stuff. Um, yeah, and I always appreciate you guys, you know, being active in the chat and saying hi and all that stuff. That means a lot to me.

So thank you, everybody. I hope you guys have a great day and I hope you make some really cute tea cozies. Bye everyone.