So last Sunday was Father's Day, and being the slacker of a daughter I am, my dad has just now received his Father's Day gift (only 6 days late). Anyway, since Daddy is an avid tea drinker, I decided to knit him a tea cozy. I bought a copy of Tea Cozies 2, which contains 30 adorable tea cozy patterns. It was difficult choosing which one to knit, but I finally settled on this simple yet unique pattern by Paula Coyle entitled "Purple Berry."
When knitted with purple yarn this cozy resembles a blackberry (hence the name), but I chose a different color combination to use some of what I had in my stash, and to make it a little more gender-neutral. The patterns in this book are designed for standard six-cup teapots, and since Daddy's only holds four cups I altered the pattern a little bit in order to get the right size. So if anyone is looking to knit this pattern for a smaller teapot, I would recommend casting on 29 stitches instead of 39, only working the Butterfly stitch pattern once, and the rest is pretty self-explanatory. Additionally, I did find a few errors in the pattern, so here are the changes I made in case if anyone should have a use for them. (Note: These corrections occur at the top joining stage).
Row 1: K2, *(sl5wyif, skpo, k1, k2tog); rep from * to last 7 sts, sl5wyif, k1, sl 1, k1 from holder, psso, k1, cont across sts on holder, rep from * to last 7 sts, sl5wyif, k2tog.
Row 3: *(sl5wyif, k3) rep from * to last 6 sts, sl5wyif, k1.
Row 4: Purl across.
(Complete rows 3 and 4 as opposed to repeating rows 1 and 2 as stated in the pattern.)
Omit row 9.
Apart from these small errors I really loved this pattern, and found it relatively simple to knit while still not being boring.
Happy Knitting!
