Tea Cozy While rummaging in my photo files the other day I came across this tea cozy which was made three years ago when I was putting together projects for my book, Knit 2 Together. It didn’t make the final cut, replaced at the last minute by the little upstart, tongue- in- cheek Tutu cozy ( below ). But I still love this colourful cozy even though I was for a brief time unfaithful, something I’m NEVER with my tea.
I love Tea India, hands down the best I’ve ever tasted. I discovered it at India Sweets and Spices on Venice Blvd, Culver City, when I lived in California.
So enamoured was I with the red and yellow boxes that I saved every one, with good intentions of making a collage box for my lovely daughter, also named India. As usual, knitting elbowed out other craft ideas and when we left California the boxes were cast, with much regret, into the recycling. I thought I had lost my favourite tea forever. Even though my friends back in California offered to send me supplies, I suspected that a carton of tea might be stretching their generosity. You can imagine my joy when David spotted Tea India on the shelves of Bhana Brothers, the wonderful Ponsonby Road fruit and vegetable shop. We’re told they make their chai with it.
Now I’m on a mission to get others addicted to Tea India so that Bhana Bros will continue to stock it. Please, tea drinkers, loose-leaf tastes so much better than tea bags. Once you try you’ll never go back, and there are other advantages: you can collect teapots and tea cozies, like these. Because of the number of colours used in this Cozy, some of them small amounts, we are offering for sale a kit, which includes one hank each of the two main colours and just enough of the others to make your stripes. The kit can be found here.
