Jan

So What’s a Tea Cosy, Tea Cozy, Tea Cosie?

My lady came home the other evening from her quilt shop (she does that once in awhile you know) and began telling me about a new product she was working on–a tea cozy. Now I consider myself a man of the world so to speak and I have traveled to many places abroad in my younger days but I had to admit I that I had no clue whatsoever as to what a tea cozy (cosy? cosie?) was nor the proper spelling thereof. I have to admit I was intrigued by the look of one though.

Now one of my favorite people, Billy Connolly, has the following to say about these marvelous things:

If a man is left alone in a room with a tea cosy, and he does not attempt to wear it, he should not be trusted.

What it is, she explained to me patiently, is a hat for your teapot. Actually it’s more of an insulted hat to keep the tea in your teapot nice and hot so you can thoroughly enjoy an afternoon’s tea without ending up drinking lukewarm amber liquid half way into it. I have to admit that I became fascinated with these things and yes, the first thing I did was put one on my head.

So what’s a tea cozy you say? Well it’s…

This

and this

So now my lady of Long Meadow Farms has handmade, quilted tea cozies in three different sizes made with two layers of cotton batting and one layer of polyester fluff (to keep the "hot" in the pot) to go with all the rest of her "Handmade in Vermont" quilted items she makes all year around.