Tea Talk Tuesday
Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
With the amount of tea I've been drinking lately the apothecary should be bankrupt!
photo used with permission from Ayumi of Pink Penguin.
Have you seen these absolutely darling tea pots by Ayumi of Pink Penguin? She has such a great color sense and the best fabrics! Ayumi is the creator of those darling fabric baskets we've all been addicted to. How is this for inspiration! Thank you very much Ayumi for giving me permission to share your photo.
Sarah, 12 years old, is half of the Australian mother/daughter blog duo at A Spoonful of Sugar. They are quite to creative team. I thought it would be fun for her to have her own tea swap partner if possible. So I'm asking if anyone participating in the swap has a creative daughter or granddaughter about this age that would like to be Sarah's swap partner. Please e-mail and let me know by January 15. Thanks!
To help get your creative juices flowing I thought I'd share some patterns for tea things. Some are quilts, wallhangings, tablerunners, and some are stitcheries and tea cozies. If you find any interesting links you'd like to share let me know. But perhaps you'll want to keep them to yourself! :o)
1. Intivation for Tea-pattern
2. Tea for Two-pattern (perhaps something you could make with teapot/cup print fabric
3. Time for Tea
4. Quilted Tea Cozy-pattern
5. Knitted Tea Cozy-free pattern
6. Teapots, cups, coffee mugs-free paper pieced patterns
7. Dancin' Teapots-free paper piecing
8. Coffee and Tea-free patterns
9. Teapots to Applique-pattern book scroll down a bit
10. Sweet Tea-patterns
I almost didn't want to share Sweet Tea. I LOVE it and wanted to keep it all to myself. This is a mother/daughter pattern design team called The Quilt Company. Arlene Stamper is one of the designers and many long years ago while living in California I was lucky to take a double wedding ring class she taught. Terrific teacher!
This should get you started. Hope I didn't give you tea overload! Have fun.
REMINDER:DEADLINE TO RSVP IS THURSDAY THE 15th.
~Piecefully, Stephanie
Oh what a good list of ideas. Thanks! And now I can't wait to find out who my recipiant will be.. so I can plan the colors etc.
Thanks for all the ideas! To be honest, I had actually also found 2 of them myself and love them. But, I'm not telling which ones....
I love a good spot of tea as well! Thanks for all the links
I'm so gald you gave us all these links, they will be a great help when sewing things for the swap!
oooh, i can't wait to check out all of the links! thank you!
i just saw this on her blog and was going to email you...are those pots not the cutest!!!
Ayumi's tea pots are so cool. i hope she does a tut. it's so creative. what fun this tea talk is.
wow stephanie...some SUPER cute tea crafts.
your little tea swap is such a cute idea.
<3
I looked at every link. What great stuff is out there! My biggest favorite is the pink penguin pots. HOLY COW! I love them so much. I've gotta make something like it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh so many lovely links!!! Thankyou!!
You will do a fantastic work on beeing the Swap hostess for this swap!! :o)
Everything was cute...lots of ideas to 'mull' over!!
Those patterns are all so pretty!
If I ever learn to quilt, I would love to try one of the sweet tea patterns. Too cute!
Kimberly :)
I looked at them all..."Sweet Tea" and Pink Penguin's are my favorite...with the Dancin' teapots my third favorite...thank so much for sharing these links!
I just love Ayumi's work, Stephanie! She is so clever! And so many great links - thanks!
Cheers!
wow...so cute! and very good links..thank you for sharing:)
Thanks for all the ideas!
Kind regards,
Sonnja & Bear Zonn
Hi Stephanie, what great research you did. Love all the patterns, now what will I do, so many to choose from.
Thank you for all your work your putting in this,
Bonnie
Thank you for the links. I hope you have a lot of fun hosting this swap.
Ayumi's teapots are really cute. Thank you for sharing :)
The teapot button is so sweet. Hope you have lots of fun with the swap.
Hia Stephanie, thanks for the inspiration. I know there will be something in that which I can make especially for my partner. Looking forward to starting now I am more on top of stuff here.
Love the colour of the oil cloth you made the bags with- so bright and cheerful -an excellent antidote to the drizzle covering England at the mo. beautiful job on the journal covers -Eileen's and the one pictured. :-) I'll now read on and catch up with your makings.
Hi Stephanie,
Thanks so much for taking your time to collect all those nice links. I enjoyed looking at them. Thanks also for introducing my teapots. I am excited about learning to create pdfs and share the pattern with tea lovers like you ;)