Brass Band Man Tea Cosy Knitting Pattern

The Brass Band Man Tea Cosy was inspired by the Salvation Army brass bands that play Christmas Carols in the town centers around Christmas time.

The main part of the tea cosy is a man dressed smartly in a suit with a cap on his head. You can see his little cheeks all billowed out as he blows into the enormously long instrument called a sousaphone.

I wanted to give the cosy a Christmas feel so around the back I have given the composition a little robin and I think it makes it look very sweet.

But it's not just a Christmas tea cosy, brass bands and players of brass instruments play all year round and so the band man will have all year appeal.

The knitting pattern uses Stylecraft Special DK and the main part of the tea cosy is knitted with double thickness yarn to keep the teapot and the tea really hot.

The Brass Band Man tea cosy fits a medium sized tea pot that covers a Teapot that holds 6 to 8 cups or 2 pints.

The pattern will be available for digital download as soon as you have completed purchase, so you could start knitting, very soon!

This product is the knitting pattern only to make your own Brass Band Man tea cosy.

The stitches used are...
SL1 Slip one stitch
PSSO Pass Slip Stitch Over
Rep Repeat
K2tog Knit 2 Stitches Together
P2tog Purl 2 Stitches Together
YFWD yarn forward
Inc1 Increase in next stitch (knit in front and back of stitch on a knit row. Purl in back and front of stitch in a purl row)
YB Yarn Back – put the yarn to the back of the work so when you Purl a stitch is created.
T&D Thread the end of the yarn through the remaining stitches and through the loop of the yarn itself and draw up the knitting tightly and Finish off.
Stocking Stitch Knit a row, purl a row

You also have to work one short row.

The Brass Band Man tea cosy fits a medium sized tea pot that covers a Teapot that holds 6 to 8 cups or 2 pints.

5.5 mm, UK size 5 or US size 9 knitting needles,
4.00 mm, UK size 8 or US size 6 Knitting needles,
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