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Hearts Valentines Tea Cosy
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Keep your Tea as hot as your Love this Valentines Day with a heart Valentine's tea cosy.
The 'Pick and Mix' heart adorned Valentines tea cosy offers you many possibilities, with different options for the actual tea cosy itself, and then the possibility of adding small knitted and stuffed hearts, maybe sewn onto the front, or dangling from the top of the tea cosy. With so many possible valentines' tea cosies to knit, I'm sure you might have to knit more than one!
Mix and match the pattern peices to make a your own personal Valentine's Day Tea Cosy.
You will Need...
You will need to choose two side peices and then shape the top of the Valentines Tea Cosy, this will knit across your two side peices.
Lightly stuffed hearts are an optional extra, so too is embroider a slaogan or Valentine wish on the Big Heart.
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Possible designs for your Hearts Valentines Tea Cosy
These tea cosies and knitting patterns were designed by TeaCosyFolk for www.PerfectValentines.co.uk, the patterns and images are all Copywrite of www.PerfectValentines.co.uk
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To make a Hearts Valentines Tea Cosy you will need...
5.5 mm, UK size 5 or US size 9 knitting needles,
3.5 mm, UK size 10 or US size 3 Knitting needles,
50g Main colour Double knitting wool,
Scraps of Other coloured balls of Double knitting wool,
Small amount of stuffing.
Divide the Main colour ball of wool into two balls so that the yarn can be used as double thickness but knitted up as a single strand.
Plain Side for the Valentines Tea Cosy
Using size 5.5mm knitting needles and double thickness Main Colour yarn cast on 28 stitches and work 2 rows
in straight garter stitch (Knit each row)
Then work 24 rows of Stocking Stitch (one row knit, one row purl)
Leave the stitches on a spare needle until later.
Big Heart Side for the Valentines Tea Cosy
Using size 5.5mm knitting needles and double thickness Main Colour yarn cast on 28 stitches and work 2 rows
in straight garter stitch (Knit each row)
Then work 24 rows Stocking Stitch (one row knit, one row purl) of the Big Heart patten. The Heart also needs to be knitted with double thickness yarn.
Download the Big Heart Knitting Pattern here
Leave the stitches on a spare needle until later.
Many Hearts Side for the Valentines Tea Cosy
Using size 5.5mm knitting needles and double thickness Main Colour yarn cast on 28 stitches and work 2 rows
in straight garter stitch (Knit each row)
Then work 24 rows Stocking Stitch (one row knit, one row purl) of the Many Hearts patten. The Hearts also needs to be knitted with double thickness yarn.
Download theMany Hearts Knitting Pattern here
Leave the stitches on a spare needle until later.
Shaping the top of the Valentines Tea Cosy
Using Main Colour wool as a double yarn proceed to knit across the tea cosy front and then tea cosy back as Follows...
Shaping the top Row 1: *K5, K2 tog* repeat to end
Next and every alternate row Purl.
Row 3: *K4, K2 tog* repeat to end.
Row 5: *K3, K2 tog* repeat to end.
Row 7: *K2, K2 tog* repeat to end.
Row 9: *K1, K2 tog* repeat to end.
Row 11: *K2 tog* repeat to end.
Thread the end of the yarn through the remaining stitches and through the loop of the yarn itself and draw up the knitting tightly and Finnish off.
With the front and back right sides together, sew about 9.5cm from the finishing off point down the side seam towards the cast on edge.
At the bottom of each side seam, sew about 3cm upwards. The holes are left for the teapot handle and spout.
Lightly Stuffed Hearts
These little hearts can be used as a little topper for the top of the tea cosy, or dangled from ribbons from the top of the tea cosy or sewn as decorations to the main body of the tea cosy.
To knit a lightly stuffed heart you will need a small amount of double knitting wool and size 3.5 mm, UK sized 10 and US sized 3 knitting needles.
Cast on 4 stitches.
Row 1: Purl
Row 2: Knit
Row 3: Purl
Row 4: Inc in next 3 stitches, K1 (7 stitches)
Row 5: Purl
Row 6: Knit
Row 7: Purl
Row 8: Inc in next 6 stitches, K1 (13 stitches)
Row 9: Purl
Row 10: Knit
Row 11: Purl
Row 12: K5 stitches, turn
Row 13: S1 purl wise, purl 4
Row 14: Knit across all stitches
Row 15: P5 stitches, turn
Row 16: S1 Knit wise, K4
Row 17: Purl
Row 18: Knit
Row 19: Purl
Row 20: *K2 tog* to last stitch, K1 (7 stitches)
Row 21: Purl
Row 22: Knit
Row 23: Purl
Row 24: *K2 tog* to last stitch, K1 (4 stitches)
Row 21: Purl
Row 22: Knit
Row 23: Purl
Cast off.
To finish the heart
Fold the heart in half with right sides facing, and so that the cast on and cast off edges are together. Sew up one side of the heart and then sew half way up the other side. Turn the heart right sides out and lightly stuff, then sew up the opening. Finally anchor a length of wool to the to middle of the heart, and push the needle down through the middle of the hearts and pull tightly to make the two 'humps' of the heart. Sew a couple of stitches over the top of each other on the point of the heart to fix the heart shaping.
To suspend from ribbon, thread the needle with very thin ribbon and tread through the top of the heart.
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