Winding down….
It's been a fun ten years making and selling these wool felt tea cosies -- as well as the coffee and mug cosies -- and it's been delightful and marvelous that tea and coffee drinkers from around the world have liked them enough to want them in their homes too. Thank...
Watercolours, WestofLunch
A few years ago I took a watercolour class. Its lightness was very appealing and painters I've loved, like Raoul Dufy, make it look so fine, so breezy, so easy. It turns out learning watercolour is not nearly as simple as it looks and small variations in paper,...
Head-swelling mention on Remodelista
A mention on Remodelista.com of the beautiful modern, wool felt tea cosies or tea cozies by flockofteacosy.com
the wirecutter mention
A wee shoutout to thewirecutter.com for their unexpected mention of FlockofTeaCosy's wares as a good gift for mom on Mother's Day. Chest puffed out, head swelling, generally feeling chuffed. Their item from April 30th, written by the clearly lovely Alex Arpaia was...
Comet table runner
Every now and again the growing pile of tea cosy wool felt scraps starts to grumble, so the other day I started on another table runner (aka table topper aka hot pad) and several hours of puzzling the pieces together. A dark comet with a fiery tail is what I had in...
Sydney Morning Herald mention oh la la….
Flock of Tea Cosy mention in Canberra Times
Eco-concious ‘Puzzle Piece’ trivets
Puzzle-piece wool felt tableware A few years ago the "Puzzle Pieces" were introduced after the pile of tea cosy offcuts next to the sewing machine became too high to ignore. This fine quality, well-made 100% wool felt from Europe was just too dear to throw out -- and...
How to clean wool felt
Tea is widely used as a dye and its stains can be, well, a bugger to get out of a nice white shirt for instance. Since cleaning and care is a common question about these wool felt tea cosies I thought I'd re-post some cleaning tests I did a few years ago. One can...