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Did anyone imagine a teapot in a sweater? I know the spelling's off, but did anyone else imagine this?
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I think they prefer pullovers although a cardy would suit that plump little shape. OK knitters, your assignment should you choose to accept it is to design a tea cosy that looks like a cardigan, complete with buttons. Could be very cute. 
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is this a sponsered contest i can post to my knitting boards, Zed? last year, there was an exhibtions (it travel through a bit of US and Canada of hand knit TP covers.. the winning entry was shaped like a throne..(how appropiate for the throne room!)
so what are the rules? do we need to send you the actually cardagen tea cosys? or just pictures of them? do we need to provide written instructions for reproducing them? or just a sample? who get to keep the copyright on the directions?..
come on then details! (i have knit a tea cosy or two.. mostly simple functional ones.. (with the spout and handle exposed so you could pour without removing the cosy.)
personally i think tea is vile, but i do have the stuff, and tea pots for guests.
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I used to love hot tea when I was in my twenties and Earl Grey was my favorite. And now I, too, of troy find it, as you put it, 'vile.'
And just for the record and a matter of interest for those who like knowing the differences in spelling:
tea cosy had 4 direct hits on onelook.com
and tea cozy (how I would have spelled it) had 7 direct hits
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I agree that Earl Gray tea IS absolutely vile. Almost as bad as a tisane. In England, fortunately, you will only be served it if you ask specifically for it. Normally we drink fairly strong English breakfast tea, as it is known to all USns. Assam is good too, as are many other Indian and Chinese teas. Lapsang Souchong has an interesting smoky, tarry flavour that is OK for a change now and then.
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Lapsang Souchong has an interesting smoky, tarry flavour
that taste as if you are drinking the hot water run off from a newly paved macadam street...yeah, that's about right... well the run off might taste a little better..but.
plain oolong tea (as commonly served in chinese restaurants in NYC) is drinkable in the small quanities a chinese tea cup holds. but i don't eat out (chinese food) that often.
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Run-off, of troy! Ha!
I don't know whether it is because I am in (most likely) my last couple of decades, but, as so often seems to be the case with many my age, we start looking at our horrible collection of bad health habits and try to begin undoing a little of the damage to prolong this ecstatic luxury called life. Anyhow, I do drink coffee and have tried cutting back--and successfully.
However, of troy, we really should try switching to hot tea because of all the health benefits in tea. I believe there are nutrients in tea not found in coffee. Magnesium seems to ring a bell from those days that I did drink hot tea. Not that you're in my age bracket yet, but perhaps we should give hot tea another try, road run-off or not! (Of course, you were writing about the smoky tea and not tea in general. Personally, hot tea leaves a kind of coarse film on the enamel, or so I've speculated.)
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Not my porcelain drinking vessel of herbaceously infused water. (Your mileage may vary.) I find badly brewed tea and coffee both vile. The problem with Earl Grey and most "flavored" teas (like jasmine) is that such a low quality of tea leaf is used to flavor. (And don't get me started on "flavored" coffees.) Most tea comes from the same kind of tea leaf, it's the fermentation process that determines if it's going to be green or smokey, etc. I particularly like Pu'Er tea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea
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