Mistakes involving Tea

My Mom has a pleated tea cosy in orange and gold that she has had for over 30 years. Her mother-in-law made it for her, and since that Grandma passed away before I was born my Mom has saved that tea cosy. It is important to note, these are my Mom's least favourite colours from the 70's. The pattern itself is from the early 60's and earlier this month I was given a copy mixed in with a bunch of Vogue Knitting magazines.

I have numerous teapots and none of them have cosies. As I drink a lot of tea, and often need to microwave the last cups to get them warm enough, I decided it was time I make my own tea cosy. I chose to make it for a 6-cup teapot I keep at my boyfriends house and went out with my Mom to the yarn store. I resisted the suggestion to buy calmer yarn (browns, blues, whites or black) and went for a deep purple and what might be called acid green. On a smaller teapot the combination would likely look nice, however I do not have a small teapot.

The result was this...



Needless to say it's not what I was going for. I did not account for the different style of teapot. However I will use it until the garish acrylic yarn breaks or I get sick of people making fun of it. For now I will be strong and proud, because I learn best by making mistakes.

Lesson: just like in clothes, if it looks good on one person/teapot, it wont necessarily look good on you/your teapot.

Lesson Learned...