summer loving tea cosy free pattern

On holiday I bought a beautiful portmerrion teapot I wasn't sure whether to use it so it just sat there used it today for first time and decided it needed a cosy. It's odd shape  and after searching I decided to  design my own . I have never tried this before  so bare with me lol




I used  double knit  and a 3.5 hook   this uses UK crochet terms


I chained 55

Foundation row starting from third hold  I did half trebles across row

 Row 1-6  chain 2  2htr in first stitch   htr cross row untill last stitch  2htr

Row 6- 13 half trebled across all stitches

Row 14  change to blue  and half treble 26  chain 10  skip ten continue to half treble across row
Row 15 -24 treble across all stitches fasten off yarn

See up sides leaving room for handle sew across top

Flowers

Round 1  chain 2 work 6d  in second chain from hook as to first dc

Round 2  (ss chain 2 treble chain 2 ss in each stitch  fasten off yarn

 So far so good .  But still a bit plain .

To give you a ideal of shape of tea pot

 As you can see spout is high  to fit any other type of tea pot  you change the  position of the row you chained ten on. Any way back to the fun bit making it pretty

I borrowed  the motif for butterfly from here.        http://www.hopefulhoney.com/2012/03/butterfly-fly-away.html you can go as mad as you like adding butterflies and flowers .

Added some more flowers and it still needed something I remember a Sun I made using bunny mummy blog and added it . I like the summery effect  and it makes me smile i I have called it summer loving tea cosy. c you want to have a try at flower your self her blog can be found here http://bunnymummy-jacquie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/sail-away-crochet-pattern.html 

Hope you enjoyed looking at this pattern  as much as I enjoyed making it now time for a cuppa!