Orla Kiely Inspired Vintage Tea Cosy by Amanda Hurrell

Orla Kiely Inspired Vintage Tea Cosy

Knitting
March 2018
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
US 6 - 4.0 mm
English
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The inspiration for my tea cosy came from growing up as a kid in the 1970’s, surrounded by a colour palette of browns, orange and mustard that I didn’t appreciate at the time. We always visited my gran on a Sunday for tea and cake. She always had a knitted tea cosy and taught me to knit at an early age. I wasn’t that taken with knitting and my skills didn’t further develop until my son was born in 1992. Since then I’ve knitted lots of accessories as gifts for family and friends and wanted to pass on some of these valuable skills to others.