FIVE sleeps

One is feeling a little Devilish with just FIVE (5) f-i-v-e- sleeps to go until the launch of .....

How Tea Cosies Changed the World

One made an extra pair of horns to wear on Wednesdays, Wash days and for Wacumming!

One will not be wearing it to the launch.  One has a special knitted collar for that occasion. 

Brisbane Launch
6.00 for a 6.30 pm start.

Avid Reader
Boundary Street
West End
Phone:  3846 3422
Bookings Essential

One will tell a story or two.
One will show and tell.
One will ask you to show and tell yours.

Bring your tea cosy.

See all the funny people with their beautiful tea cosies on the poster?

Errrrr.

See all the beautiful people with their funny tea cosies.

One may even do the knit rap as the knit rap has not yet been performed at Avid.

Deconstructing the Reconstruction of a Tea Cosy

Spotted Gourd is allowed out for a little preview - soon to take the limelight in....

"How Tea Cosies Changed the World"

He is made of two berets shapes, each one knitted from the crown out and down and then in and in some more and in some more again and then out a little bit, finished with a rolled lip, turned upside down and folded in on itself to make a double thickness half.  The two halves are then stitched together along the crowns, now the base.  The rest is all smoke and mirrors and you'll have to BUY THE BOOK to find out all the numbers and tricks that make him sit up so grand.

One thinks this might be a first in tea cosy construction.  But then One could be wrong.

Here he is again, the same but different.

A tea cosy and pot stand all in one.

Blimey One is clever.

Mini tea cosies, for Mini Pots

Wood Fungus Mini Me - How Tea Cosies Changed the World

Garden Party Mini Me - Really Wild Tea Cosies

Carmen Miranda Mini Me - Wild Tea Cosies

Doonan Debutants

No, not a tea cosy.  Well spotted.

C'est un Sac-cadeau Belle Petite - a pretty little gift bag - for gifts, of course.


Adorable Alex made this one.


Alex will present her childhood friend with tickets to the opera - a 50th birthday pressie - in this pretty little knitted gift bag.


Noice.  Real noice.

Doonan Debutants

Just 6 women came to my home in the Noosa hinterland yesterday to learn...

1.  Long tail cast on 
2.  Double Knitting - the basics 
3.  Knitting in the round with the Magic Loop
4.  Making lace holes
5.  Weaving into knitted fabric
6.  i-cord
7.  The tricks of Rose construction

Introducing Gorgeous Gail, Kharismatic Krystle and the Lovely Lisbet

Introducing Adorable Alex, Bubbly Beverly and Bella Bronwyn.

They also learned...

1.  Talking AND knitting is OK
2.  Breaking for Lemon Meringue Pie is OK too.
3.  There is no rest for the wicked
4.  Knitters are wicked

Thanks girls for joining me to knit and talk and eat and play in the first Doonan workshop.  'Twas a real beaut day.  The first of many perhaps. 

Scoootish Tea

OK OK so here is a little preview of How Tea Cosies Changed the World on zeee blerg.

One joined Facebook and has been neglecting zeeee blerg

"Zeee Blerg"  ??  One is practicing One's French of course.

Perhaps One ought to be practicing One's Scootish.

See the wee hearts underneath?

See the wee teapots on top?

See the wee argyle on the side?

All in Shelter yarn.

hmmmm mmmmm.

Getting ready to go on tour.

tea hea hea hea hea

And in another incarnation.

Tea Cosies has landed.

ONE - the number of advanced copies a published knitter gets.

SEVEN - the number of weeks the slow boat from China takes to get all the other books here.

TWENTY TWO - the date in March the book will be launched at Avid Reader, West End, Brisbane.

THREE - the number of books in One's stash.

LARGE - the circumference of One's head today.

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY - the page on which to Go Feral.


Thank you thank you thank you to the Murdoch Mob ...

Diana the Publisher
Georgina the Technical Editor
Jared the Photographer
Emma the Stylist
Sophia the Managing Editor
Deb the Design Director
Emma the Designer

What a beautiful job you did.

Leading Fashion

Moi, One, with matching scarf and tea cosy.

De rigeur in all the posh homes and tea houses this year.

More Tea Cosy Numbers

74 - the number of sleeps until the release of "How Tea Cosies Changed the World"

4 - the number of tea cosies on sneak preview here on the back cover of  "How Tea Cosies Changed the World".

3 - a wishful number counting the weeks till One gets One's only advance copy flying in from China while all the bookstore copies come in that infamous 'slow boat'.

Tea Cosies - Numbers (and letters)

76 - the number of sleeps before How Tea Cosies Changed the World appears in a bookstore near you. (in Australia)

20 - the date in March to mark in your calendar.

FB - for a place you can find One playing tea cosy (in Australia and France) in...

2012 - a BIG year



Introducing
Wood Fungus and Mini Me.

and

Wood Fungus or more particularly - Wood Fungi.

and Wood Fungus.

Some of you will know this one, already outed at the Powerhouse Museum early last year.

The pattern finally available to those who asked and asked.... not much longer....

One Too

One has been knitting another Double Knit Noro Scarf With Woven Windows.

One loved Sunita's New Yorker so much, One had to have one too.

One had to have one too.

One had to have one too.

One has been playing with other double knitting.

But One feels a hiatus coming on.  One wonders why on earth One chose red and grey to play with.

One is reminded of school colours.

What was One thinking?!

Wool Aversion Therapy seems to be wasted on Wes That Bloody Cat.

One left the knitting chair for a moment to attend to a pot of tea (or perhaps that was a glass of red) and came back to find he had taken up residence.

Noooooo!   You are NOT cute.  You are BAD.   BAD cat.  Get out of One's wool basket now.

OKaaaay.  You can HAVE the chair.

Sheeesh.

Merry Christmas from the Southern Hemisphere.


Hmmm yes it does look suspiciously like The Bloke doesn't it.

Happy 'Doing' Christmas Present

LOOK at those happy faces!

Did you ever see such love and joy?!

Zeez eez the effect of knitting tea cosies in the company of other happy women knitting tea cosies.

One is offering the ultimate Christmas present.

The present for the girl who has everything.

The present for the girl who DESERVES everything.

A 'DOING' present.

A One Day Workshop

At One's Castle on the Hill

In Doonan, on the Sunshine Coast.

(an easy drive from Brisbane)

9.30 am - 4.00 pm

Friday 3 February.

6 only places.

Morning tea and lunch catered.

Wool supplied.

$125.00

Vee vill learn...

Long tail cast on. (very useful)

Basic Double Knitting. (very clever)

Knitting in the round with the Magic Loop. (also very clever)

Weaving into knitting (very tricky).

i-cord. (very easy)

Lace holes. (very very)

Kitchener cast off. (mindblowingly clever)

Rolling a rose. (very adictive)

Knitting a collar. (neat)

And all you need to know is how to cast on (any old way), how to cast off (any which way), how to knit a stitch and how to purl a stitch.

Contact me via email with your name and phone number and I will phone you back (in Australia).

Jewellery - For Christmas

One's quietly funny, very clever, far too talented friend, Phil Ward, is giving jewelry  workshops in his brand new studio in his bespoke house just over the green hill from One.  Eumundi, Sunshine Coast, North of Brisbane.

If you are looking for a "DOING" present for a special friend this Christmas, then Phil's workshops might be pretty damn special, One reckons, One does.

Zeez eez heez Triple J earingz.  Noice.

And a watch One has been lusting after for some time.

Hmmmm.  One can feel another commission coming on.

You can email Phil here to make enquiries about times etc.

One day workshops:  $145

Two day workshops:  $275

Vanessa's Leopold

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It is ESSENTIAL you turn up your VOLUME
and PLAY this post's accompanying music

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One has a penchant for chooks. 

 Funny, clever, arty, exuberant chooks.

This year One commissioned a chook from Vanessa.
(no you can't go to Vanessa's blog yet)

 

Introducing Leopold 
looking this way

Looking that way

OK so now you can go to Vanessa's blog

Be sure to tell her you LOVE her Leopold, MY Leopold,

traveled all the way from the Old Country 

to take up residence on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Sunita's New Yorker

Sunita's New Yorker 

For Sunita 

in New York 

Double Knitting 

made with Noro Silk Garden Lite

4 balls - 2 each of 

different colourway

Reverse side

Stocking stitch only

When you double knit,

you create a front fabric 

and back fabric at the same time.

In Sunita's scarf, the back

is all in stocking stitch.

the edging is a simple

crochet chain shell.

On the front, the squares are

knitted in reverse stocking stitch,

and woven with contrasting

coloured yarn and darning needle.

Knit Knit

Happy Happy

Joy Joy 

Double Knitting.

Not ALL about me.

I met Nat here in blogland by a most lucky accident of a mouse click.

Nat lives in Melbourne and came down to Geelong in September to see the results of Forum.  We met - in person for the first time.  Nat joked that we had been internet dating and this was our big reveal.  I liked what I saw.  She was much better than her photo.

Be sure to look at her blog.
Be sure to look at her ....

Japanese Textile Study Tour.

If I liked playing with fabric HALF as much as I like playing with wool, I'd be going with her like a shot.  Nat is one of those GOOD people, from the core, as well as being funny and clever and artistic.

Introducing the African Queen.

NO.  I did NOT design this splendiforous tea cosy.

But I am green with envy.  I wish I HAD designed her.  There just are not enough superlatives to describe her.  Just drink her up in all her glorious exuberance.

Ms Jenny of Capetown designed and made her for a for friend getting married here in Australia just down the road from me.  The African Queen is coming down under.  But sadly not Ms Jenny.  Not this time.

I met Jenny by accident of a mouse click too.  We have become good penpals.  Or is that e-pals.

And then this came via email from Lorraine of Melbourne

This is what she said - and I believe her.

"I thought I would send you this photo which was not a set up just a shot taken on my iphone at home.

I see from your blog that you love cats.  This is my boy Macciato and
your book on the arm of the sofa.  Quite a cute shot!"

A VERY cute shot which has of course given me an idea.....