Description
Three Aussie bush flowers for the teapot: a deep-green cozy with a big waratah-red bloom and gum leaves, a cream cozy with crossed sprays of golden wattle bobble blossoms, and a sage cozy with red bottlebrush spikes. Every cozy comes in two sizes — Small for the classic 2-cup pot and Large for 4–6-cup pots — and all three share one clever body pattern, so once you have made one you have made them all. From our Aussie family shop, they keep the tea hot and the table cheerful.
REAL OPENINGS, HONESTLY DESCRIBED: these are not tubes with the spout forced under the hem. Each body begins as two flat panels, and the gap left between the panels at each side is a real vertical slit (about 3.8 cm wide, 5.0 cm tall in Small and 6.7 cm in Large). The spout slips through one slit and the handle through the other, the panels are bridged into one piece above the slits, and two little crocheted ties at each slit tie closed in a bow under the spout and the handle. At the top the dome closes to a small ring (about 2.4 cm across) that your teapot’s lid knob pops through, with a crocheted loop handle behind it for lifting the cozy off.
THE FLOWERS, HONESTLY DESCRIBED: every motif is crocheted as a separate piece and stitched onto the finished body with a yarn needle — that is how these flowers are truly made, and the pattern says exactly that, with counted stitches for every petal, leaf, blossom and bristle, and plain instructions for where each piece is sewn. Nothing is glued, anywhere.
WHAT’S INSIDE THE 14-PAGE PDF
• The shared body pattern in both sizes — two ribbed panels (half double crochet through the back loop, a thick insulating stitch) with an accent hem band, joined into the round over chain bridges, then domed with counted decrease rounds to the knob ring: 72 stitches around and 13.3 cm tall (Small), 96 stitches around and 17.5 cm tall (Large), every round written out with its count
• The Waratah bloom: a bobble-studded centre dome, 8 outer petals and 6 inner petals from a width model (with a chart drawn from the same model) — 186 stitches, about 10 cm across — plus 3 gum leaves with stems and stitched veins, and their chart
• Two Golden Wattle sprays: a slip-stitched stem carrying 9 golden 5-dc bobble blossoms and 2 small leaves each, sewn on crossed
• Two Bottlebrush spikes: a crocheted core wrapped in 24 chain-loop bristles each (144 stitches per spike) plus 3 narrow leaves
• A yarn totals table up front — every cozy, every size, every colour costed in metres, yards, grams and 50 g balls, counted stitch by stitch (one ball of each of the seven colours makes a full set in one size, with yarn to spare)
• Measuring-your-teapot guide, finishing and washing notes, and an honestly-labelled optional fabric lining (a simple extra you cut and tack in yourself — the cozy is complete and warm without it)
THE DETAILS
• US crochet terms throughout, with a UK equivalents table
• Gauge: 16 hdc sts × 12 rows = 10 cm, 4.0 mm hook, DK (8 ply) cotton in Deep Green, Cream, Sage, Waratah Red, Wattle Gold, Gum Leaf Green and Grey-Green (cotton shrugs off a hot pot’s heat where acrylic sulks)
• Finished cozies: Small 45 cm around × 13.3 cm tall, fits pots up to about 42 cm around the belly; Large 60 cm around × 17.5 cm tall, fits up to about 56 cm around
• Confident-beginner friendly: panels, rounds, simple width-model pieces; the only stitches are sc, hdc, dc, chains, slip stitches and the 5-dc bobble, all explained in the pack
• Print-ready A4 PDF, instant download
More Aussie flora for the table in our shop: Crochet Coasters & Mug Rugs Patterns Vol 1, Crochet Coasters & Mug Rugs Patterns Vol 2, and Crochet Home Vol 1 (Mug & Bottle Cozy Patterns).
This is a digital download — no physical item will be posted to you. Because it is an instant download, all sales are final; if anything about the file gives you trouble, message us and we will sort it out.
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