WPI: 10

Gauge: 16 st x 20 rounds = 4”

Finished dimensions:

Unfelted: about 8 1/2” H x 20” Diameter

Felted (stretched to fit my 18oz. cup): 4” H x 17 3/8” Diameter

from the designer: “My friend Garen has been making tea cozies lately. She’s made three different versions of the cover cozy from Vogue Knitting: Felting, and one (so far) with wet-felting. She’ll probably make a few more with other techniques, leaving her with the best-dressed little yellow teapots in town, before she moves on to something else.

”Tea cozies are of no use to me because I don’t use a teapot. However, I do use a large teacup. I have some 18oz ones and some 20oz ones. At a recent meeting of our spinning guild, after we all admired Garen’s latest creation, I was thinking out loud that I need an upside-down cozy, one that goes around the outside and bottom of my oversized cup. Our Spindlicity editor, Janel, was sitting beside me, and offered a deliciously apt name for what I was describing: Tea panties.

“So here is how I made myself some felted tea panties, with a dip in the rim for sipping, and a ridge around the bottom that keeps the cup from tipping over. The slit for the handle is cut after felting.”