An unusual novelty tea cozy and egg cozy with small stuffed chickens. This would fit right cosies in a country kitchen with free-roaming around the top. Ideal for keeping the teapot and boiled eggs to warm, children really enjoy. In less than an hour to make it a nice surprise on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, when someone you are currently a hard-boiled egg for breakfast, that even a hen is sitting on top.
Let's not fool yourselvesinto thinking this tea cozy and hens egg cozy with having to make difficult, because they make really really fast and easy with minimal.
Around the three hens country, coffee warmer, you need ...
5.5 mm, UK size 5 or U.S. size 9 knitting needles,
3.25 mm, UK size 10 or U.S. size 4 knitting needles
50g White double knitting wool,
50g Lemon double knitting wool,
25g Dark Brown double knitting wool
25g Red doubleKnitting wool
Other remnants of the hen colored double knitting yarn and scraps of felt for the beak.
Knit front and back of the tea cozy to meet
With the white wool and the wool yarn lemon double thickness and size 5 knitting needles, stitches on the 28th and work 38 rows in straight garter stitch (Knit each row)
Leave the stitches on a spare needle until later.
Shaping the top ...
Moving with white wool and lemon as a double-yarn to knit on the tea cozy tea cozy before and then to the following ...
Shaping the top Row 1: * K5, K2 tog * repeat to end
Next, and every other knit row.
Line 3: * K4, K2 tog * repeat to end.
Line 5: * K3, K2 tog * repeat to end.
Line 7: * K2, K2 tog * repeat to end.
Line 9: * K1, K2 tog * repeat to end.
Row 11: * K2 tog * repeat to end.
Run the end of the thread through remaining stitches and through the loop of the yarn itself and draw up the> Knitting turned down and Finnish.
together with the front and rear right side, sew about 9.5cm from the point finished off down the side seam to the voices on the edge.
At the bottom of each side seam sew about 3cm upwards. The holes are left for the teapot handle and spout.
Knitting the chickens ...
a hen colored double knitting wool and size 10 needles, 16 stitches on votes and 16 rows in stocking stitch knit work with (knit one row, one stitch Leftrow)
Cast off.
To the hen ...
Fold square in the middle of the diagonal knit (right side of the work before), a triangle make. Sew along one edge, rotate, and so easily and neatly over-sew the opening. With the thread still attached, sew small stitches running half way along the folded side of the triangle. Then put the needle in the middle of this page and come to the opposite corner, passing the thread through on the inside of the hen.Tighten the seams on the hen's tail and the head of a bird like shape, and finish off.
The Hen's comb (The red crest on the top of the head) ...
With red double knitting wool and knitting needles size 10, on 7 stitches.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2: K1 * Bring the wool around the needle he dead again before work and K2 tog * to end.
Row 3: Purl
Cast off.
To Comb ...
Flip the red rope in the middle so that the holes form a small scallop edge. Over-sew the long straight edges together and sew into position on the chicken's head.
Finishing off ...
Finishing the chicken by sewing an eye on each side of his head in dark brown wool. Cut a pound of black felt, fold in half to a triangle and sew in place to create. With red wool sew a few loops just below the beck for the chicken wattles.
Make three hens comfortably in this way to the top of the tea.
The Nest ...
With dark brown> Knitting wool and knitting needles size 5 mesh to 60 and then dropped.
Sew this long length of rope around the blossoming tea cozy to form four loops, a bit like one. These loops make the hen's nest.
Sew the three hens in the right position on the nest at the top of the tea cozy.
To the egg cozy ...
With lemon and white double knitting wool and size 5 knitting needles, 27 stitches and work 12 rows in garter stitch.
Shapingthe egg cozy Top ...
Row 1: * K1 K2tog * repeat to end.
Row 2: Knit
Line 3: * K2 tog * repeat to end.
Run the end of the thread through remaining stitches and through the loop of the yarn itself and draw down the ropes and Finnish off.
together with the front and rear right side, sew the seam.
The Egg Cosy Nest ...
With dark brown knitting wool and size 5 knitting needles, 20 stitches and then castoff
Stitch in a ring at the top of the egg cozy. Finally, a chicken makes at the top of the cozy sewing.
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