A Couple a Cozies

It's week three of the Zakka 2.0 sew along!
(More info about that at LRstitched, A Quilter's Table, and in the Flickr group.)

Here are my versions of the Lettered Tea Cozy and the Teabag Pouch from Ayumi Takahashi's book Patchwork, Please!.

All Ready to Brew!

I did make a few teensy changes to the pattern.  Mine is 3/4 inch shorter and has twill tape for the hanging loop and the binding.  Also, I made a little "T" tea bag tag for trim and included two pockets on the backside to hold both the teabag pouch and the bell pepper coasters from week one.


The teabag pouch is my favorite:

I really could have made use of this when I was a commuter college student.  As an avid coffee and tea drinker, I had bad luck sometimes with tea getting smooshed in the bottom of my backpack.  (I do own one of these, thank you very much!)

The tea cozy is quilted with variegated Aurifil Mako cotton (I'm finally using the good stuff !) It striped nicely but obviously I need to address some tension issues with my machine before getting too fancy.

That's it until next week.

Keep it cozy!

-Kristin