A little while back, my mother requested that I make her a tea cozy. This was her birthday gift this year, the cozy, a trivet and this embroidered tea towel that I came across at a rummage sale, that made me think of her.

I used some buttons from my Grandmother’s button jar as accents and for something of a sentimental touch.

Some people can make a perfectly splendid quilted tea cozy, making it look so easy, and tricking the rest of us mere mortals into thinking that it will be just that easy.

the lining

I am clearly not one of those people.  Not that the making of it was difficult, because it wasn’t.

Something fell apart with the design.  I walked into the fabric store without the slightest doubt that I would quickly and easily just find the perfect combination of fabrics.  That theory fell to pieces right quick.  I didn’t like any combination of anything together.  I did finally settle on something (obviously), but it doesn’t have the same kind of “pop” and charisma that I thought it would have (or that it had in my mind, before reality set in).

But if nothing else, as far as I know, it will keep tea warm.  So, that’s something.