Let's get cosy!

In these days of central heating, not many of us get cosy round a roaring log fire, but when it comes to keep your boiled egg warm, there seems to be endless variations on a theme.  Here are just a few I have made in the past few weeks.

 

 

First up are Mr & Mrs Jumper Cosy, attended by the hat egg cosy.  One of the great things about these little items is the fun you can have with them, closely followed by the delight of using up oddments of yarn, to come up with really quirky items.  And don't you just love those pompoms which, of course, were made using the pompom maker featured in my first blog.  Not cute enough for you, well how about these?

 

 

Bobble hat egg cosies joined by the mega cute bunny egg cosies!  Bunny has been a real success.  I think I have made about 25 of them in the run up to Easter.  In addition to the practical matter of using up yarn, I have also made both the hats and bunnies in yarns previously used to make hats for children.  The right hand bunny will be going to a young lady who has a beret made from this yarn.  Hopefully the connection will be appreciated by the young people concerned.

 

The bobble hats, which my sister discovered on the nakeidknits.com blog, are knitted in aran weight yarn and helped me rediscover the joys of knitting in the round.  The jumpers come from Weekend knitting by Melanie Falick and are great for using up your double knitting leftovers.  Finally, bunny is to be found in The Knitter’s Year by Debbie Bliss.  He is also a double knit project but knitted on 3.25mm needles to give a lovely close fabric.  Can't get enough of those bunnies?  Here's a basket full of them!  Keep cosy!