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From: Magot
Date: 09-06-2006, 05:49 PM (1 of 12)
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My daughter is back to college this weekend so I made her a tea cosy to take with her. She drinks a lot of tea and is into 1950's Kitch and likes pink so this was perfect. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e81/Janicehodge/Photo3.jpg She has sent photos to her new housemates saying she was going to buy a spotty fab teapot but there is no point now as the cosy is never coming off the pot! You can also see how much I look like my avatar! love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: esrun3
Date: 09-06-2006, 07:53 PM (2 of 12)
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Nice and bright Jan! I love it-you are so creative.
Lyn
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User: esrun3
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 2345 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 09-06-2006, 08:55 PM (3 of 12)
Here in the states that would be a ski hat ! I LOVE the colors...
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Magot
Date: 09-06-2006, 10:22 PM (4 of 12)
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Hmmm ski hat.........where are my needles........
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: pretnichols
Date: 09-07-2006, 08:22 AM (5 of 12)
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Jan, I have a few of those that my grandmother knitted in the early 70's....think browns, oranges, yellows! And, they still grace teapots in my Mom's china cabinet. I think I like your colors better though! I even have one that is a lady's head/body, and her skirt covers the teapot. I bleieve it is from Spain -- another of Grandma's trips overseas! Great job! Now I think I'll go have a cuppa myself............ 
Peggy
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User: pretnichols
Member since: 10-16-2005 Total posts: 342 |
From: Magot
Date: 09-07-2006, 11:03 AM (6 of 12)
I did find a pattern of the ones with the dolls out of the top - reminds me of the crinoline lady loo roll covers that people used to have (shudder). I couldn't bring myself to massacre Barbie in so heinous a way.  My poor daughter was traumatised enough when she rammed Sindy onto her horse (Tiffany) and her legs fell off. I must be the only person I know who took Sindy back to the shop to have a leg transplant.
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: Sancin
Date: 09-07-2006, 03:48 PM (7 of 12)
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Here in the states that would be a ski hat ! I LOVE the colors... Chuckle, chuckle - Many years ago my mother sent me a gift like this. When she asked me how I like it I told her she had forgotten to sew up all the sides and it really wasn't colours that I normally wear. She was flabbergasted and told me it was a tea cosy.  Every time I put a ski hat on I think about that tea cosy.
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
Member since: 02-13-2005 Total posts: 895 
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From: trini
Date: 09-07-2006, 08:31 PM (8 of 12)
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Really good work; colourful. Leila. |
User: trini
Member since: 09-17-2005 Total posts: 74 |
From: pretnichols
Date: 09-08-2006, 04:03 PM (9 of 12)
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Jan, don't massacre Barbie or Sindy....you knit the head & body!!! Of course, her head is a little floppy..... I wouldn't want to traumatize anyone! Sancin.....I remember finding the tea cozy when I was about 10 and thinking along those lines! We used to put them on our heads anyway, just to get a rise out of grandma! 
Peggy
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User: pretnichols
Member since: 10-16-2005 Total posts: 342 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 09-11-2006, 07:54 PM (10 of 12)
...and in Canada it would be a toque  take off eh?toque: clothing, cylindrical hat, see Bob and Doug MacKenzie Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: Sancin
Date: 09-12-2006, 12:12 AM (11 of 12)
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Ha, Jeanette - I only used the term ski hat in my message because I had a senior moment and could not remember how to spell toque!! Before this I don't think I have EVER used the term ski hat! Oh this aging memory is the pits.
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
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From: mommydionne
Date: 09-29-2006, 01:21 PM (12 of 12)
  tooo funny, when I lived in "the states" people used to look at me funny when I said toque (course maybe it was for other reasons....)
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838
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