Show and Tell Monday at Make Mine Pink

Monday, Monday...It's Monday and time for another Show and Tell with all my pink sisters at MakeMine Pink!

A customer wrote and asked for one of my new teapot-shaped tea cozies in the Tea Rose Garden Pink fabric. I had been planning to do one, but just hadn't gotten around to it! So here is the finished product. I have just enough fabric in stock to make one more...

Show and Tell Monday at Make Mine Pink

Monday is no longer a day to dread, because I always have so much fun posting my Show and Tell and reading all my Make My Pink friends' posts. It gives me something to look forward at the beginning of each week!

Last Friday, I posted some pictures of my new teapot tea cozies on my porch swing. On Saturday, Joyce Lucas told me that she thought they were pillows at first glance and suggested that I design some. So, I did. I took the tea cozy pattern, modified it , and this is what I came up with:

I have these two finished and am working on a few more. Thanks, Joyce!

PS They will be available for purchase on my website later today.

Pink Friday at Make Mine Pink

Tomorrow is Pink Friday! I am so excited about this week's theme--The Cottage Porch. I love summertime when I can sit on my porch early in the morning and have tea with my bird friends. We have a family of cardinals in the bushes near the porch swing and wrens in the note box by the front door. They are so much fun to watch! The breeze is always so refreshing and the heat of the day is still at bay, so I drink hot tea. ( I switch to iced tea by mid-morning...).

This week I will be offering some new teapot shaped cozies for those of you who drink hot tea in the mornings, as I do. They are my latest design and are sure to put a smile on your face. As always, they are one-of-a-kind and will be for sale on my website early Friday morning--midnight, actually. Have a peek:


So grab a quilt and a few pillows, a good book and enjoy the morning on the porch swing with a pot of tea. Maybe a neighbor will stop by and you can catch up on the latest goings-on in each other's lives. Life is short. Take time to savor the sweet moments when you can...

And, if you are wondering where that beautiful teapot needlepoint pillow on the porch swing came from...my friend Sharon of C'est Chouette had it listed on her site for Pink Friday a couple of weeks ago. I just had to have it! Be sure to stop by her site to see what she has to offer tomorrow. I hear there may be a little bluebird pillow available.

Blog Tea Party

Welcome to my contribution to the Blog Tea Party hosted by Jan of Jan & Tom's Place, a new blogging tea friend. I set up an Afternoon Tea For Two for my daughter and me. I brewed a pot of our favorite, English Afternoon Tea and served dainty little cakes.

The tea cozy is my latest creation--just finished it yesterday afternoon. I wasn't completely satisfied with the look of my previous effort over the weekend and made a revision or two...

I love using tea cups from my collection. These are two of my favorites. The sugar and creamer are crystal from my grandmother. They add such an elegant touch!

Be sure to hop over to Jan & Tom's blog to see who else is participating!

Show and Tell Monday at Make Mine Pink

It's Monday and time to reveal what I have been working on. My husband recently challenged me to design a new tea cozy. The shape of a teapot was his design request. Okay...no problem. I can do that....hmmm. I started thinking about it, but was in the middle of a challenging custom order---more about that later--and couldn't get the design past the recesses of my brain. It rolled around and was just a vague idea. Last weekend I finished the custom order and finally it started becoming clearer. First came a sketch. Then, a pattern. Then a revised pattern. Time to test it in fabric to see if it would work. Okay, it works. Time to embellish. This is the fun part. What do I have that would make this cozy, shaped like a teapot, look like a teapot? Give it definition and personality. A bit of this? How about that? No, more like this. What about a lid? Yes, that might work. Finally, I finished. And this is what I came up with:

What do you think?

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The challenging Custom Order? A customer wrote and asked me to design a toaster cover for he newly remodeled kitchen. She loved my Dressed To A Tea Cozy and wanted to know if I could do something similar. Every toaster is shaped differently and that is where the challenge came in. I finally went out and bought a toaster like her model just to be able to get th pattern right. (I needed a wedding gift anyway...) Here are the 2 covers(sitting atop the toaster):