Dear John

My father came home with a plan Wednesday after an afternoon watching a soccer match with his pub buddies at the local Britannia Arms.  One of his friends is a tea drinker.  The Brit serves tea in a 4-cup pot that's often cold by the third or fourth cup.  Dad decided to recruit me to make a teapot cozy for the pub.

The whole process was a bit backward.  First we picked up the yarn he wanted and a hook, then we stopped by the pub and borrowed one of their pots and last we looked up a pattern for me to base my work off of.  Needless to say, the yarn wasn't what the pattern wanted, the hook wasn't exactly what the pattern or yarn wanted and the pattern wasn't exactly what I wanted.

I decided to use some of the leftover yarn from the Tweedle twins to give the piece a second (and third, and fourth) color.  The red was done 3dc with a K-10.5/6.5mm hook.  The zebra was done 5dc+1ch with an F-5/3.75mm hook.  The top row of red was done 2dc with the K hook.  The lid piece started with 6dc of the red in a magic circle and ended with 5dc+1ch of the zebra.

The button to keep the back bit under the handle was stolen from the odds and ends button container my mother has and sewn on until the thread I cut ran out.  It's got some sort of coat of arms on it.  My father decided on it because it looked "British."

He was asleep with I put the finished product in his lap.  I think he wrapped it up and will be taking it back to the Brit tomorrow, if he's feeling well enough.