An unusual novelty tea cosy and egg cosy featuring small stuffed chickens. These cosies would fit right into a country bungalow kitchen with the free-range hens roaming colse to the top. Ideal for retention the teapot and boiled eggs warm too, children precisely enjoy them. Taking less than an hour to make they do make a lovely surprise on Good Friday and Easter Sunday when you present person a hard boiled egg for their morning meal that still has a hen sitting on top of it.
Don't be fooled into reasoning this tea cosy and egg cosy with hens must be difficult to make, because they are precisely very quick and easy with minimal shaping.
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To make the three country hens, tea cosy you will need...
5.5 mm, Uk size 5 or Us size 9 knitting needles,
3.25 mm, Uk size 10 or Us size 4 knitting needles,
50g White duplicate knitting wool,
50g Lemon duplicate knitting wool,
25g Dark Brown duplicate knitting wool
25g Red duplicate knitting wool
Other oddments of hen coloured duplicate knitting wool and scraps of felt for the beak.
Knit the Front and Back of the tea cosy to match
Using the white wool and the lemon wool as duplicate thickness yarn and size 5 knitting needles, cast on 28 stitches and work 38 rows in level garter stitch (Knit each row)
Leave the stitches on a spare needle until later.
Shaping the top...
Using white and lemon wool as a duplicate yarn saunter 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 Knit.
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 straight through the remaining stitches and straight 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.
Knitting the hens...
Using a hen coloured duplicate knitting wool and with size 10 needles, cast on 16 stitches and work 16 rows in stocking stitch (knit a row, purl a row)
Cast off.
To make up the hen...
Fold the quadrilateral of knitting in half diagonally (with the right sides of the work facing) to form a triangle. Sew along one edge, turn and stuff lightly and neatly over-sew up the opening. With the thread still attached, sew small running stitches half way along the folded side of the triangle. Then insert the needle into the middle of this side and come out at the opposite corner, passing the yarn straight through on the inside of the hen. Draw up the stitching tightly to the hen's tail and head a bird like shape, and stop off.
The Hen's Comb (The red crest on the top of its head)...
With red duplicate knitting wool and sized 10 knitting needles, cast on 7 stitches.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2: K1 *Bring the wool round the needle tot he front of the work and K2 tog* repeat to end.
Row 3: Purl
Cast off.
To make up the Comb...
Fold the red knitting in half so that the holes form a dinky scallop edging. Over-sew the long level edges together and sew into position on the hen's head.
Finishing off...
Finish off the hen by sewing an eye on either side of its head in dark brown wool. Cut a brilliant shape from black felt, fold in half to originate a triangle and sew into place. With red wool sew a integrate of loops just below the beck for the hen's wattles.
Make three hens in this way for the top of the tea cosy.
The Nest...
Using dark brown knitting wool and size 5 knitting needles cast on 60 stitches and then cast off.
Sew this long length of knitting to the tea cosy to form four loops, a bit like a flower. These loops make the hen's nest.
Sew the three hens into position on the nest at the top of the tea cosy.
To Make The Egg Cosy...
With lemon and white duplicate knitting wool and size 5 knitting needles, cast on 27 stitches and work 12 rows in garter stitch.
Shaping the Egg Cosy Top...
Row 1: *K1 K2tog* repeat to end.
Row 2: Knit
Row 3: *K2 tog* repeat to end.
Thread the end of the yarn straight through the remaining stitches and straight 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 up the seam.
The Egg Cosy Nest...
Using dark brown knitting wool and size 5 knitting needles cast on 20 stitches and then cast off.
Stitch in a ring at the top of the egg cosy. Finally make a hen to sew at the top of the cosy.
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