10 Teapot Cozy Free Knitting Patterns
Hello tea lovers, this post is for you!
Get 10 elegant, adorable, and whimsical teapot cozies to cover your tea to keep it warm.
They are all free patterns and projects include a beehive, flower garden, turtleneck, owl, dots, and more!
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#1. Beehive Tea Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
Easy-to-remember switches between knit and purl rows make this pattern simple to follow and rewarding to finish. Create a textured beehive and decorate it with little bee appliqués when you’re done!
Uses bulky weight yarn
Designed by Patons
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#2. Mistake Rib Tea Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
A simple tea cosy which is quick and easy to knit. By using aran instead of double knitting, the same pattern can be used to fit a larger teapot.
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Frankie Brown
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#3. Teapot Turtleneck Free Knitting Pattern
Your teapot can wear this stylish turtleneck with the collar turned in, folded out, or even twisted and then folded down.
You can open it up to add more water and then re-close it.
Knit bottom up. Starts in the round, splits for 2 sides worked flat, then rejoins in the round to finish the top tube.
Uses worsted weight yarn
Designed by Suzanne Resaul
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#4. Tea Mitten Free Knitting Pattern
The tea cozy has enjoyed a healthy relationship with knitting for generations.
The ribbing and negative ease holds the fabric snugly against the side of the teapot, and a little button flap keeps the whole thing secured. The lid remains uncovered for easy tea-making access, and the “thumb” gusset for the spout—the key to this mitten-inspired cozy—ensures that the tea isn’t rudely frozen on the way out.
Due to the fitted nature of this pattern, my numbers are not likely to be perfect for all teapots. Indeed, one could make this out of just about any yarn, and get a completely different effect!
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Elisabeth Kleven
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#5. Cabled Tea Cozy and Cafetière Free Knitting Pattern
These patterns were written to help improving knitters to knit cables. It includes two basic cables twisting right and left. If you can knit a rib pattern you can easily learn to move on to knitting cables. These are also good patterns for more experienced knitters to try out the no cable needle technique. The patterns for both the cafetière and tea cosy are included in this pdf. There are written instructions and charted instructions for each design.
There is also a photo tutorial (PDF) of the cable techniques used in this pattern: 4 stitch cables (C4B and C4F) with and without a cable needle.
Uses aran weight yarn
Designed by Ruth Churchman
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#6. Flower Garden Tea Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
This is the cosy in the background photo of my blog title.
It is a 1 cup cosy, but I’ve also included instructions for a 2 cup one as well. It is extremely easy to make.
It does include some crochet.
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Jenny Stacey
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#7. Free Teapot Cozy Quick Pattern to Knit
This teapot cosy is quick and easy to knit using a chunky yarn. Simple increases and decreases shape this thick cosy to fit the pot snugly.
Uses bulky weight yarn
Designed by Alexis Layton
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#8. Yasmin’s Tea Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
Traditional fluted tea cozy
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Yasmin of Knit, Shear, Bliss!
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#9. Owl Teapot Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
Beginner-friendly knitting project!
This knitting pattern is knit on straight needles and there’s no increasing or decreasing! The cozy is a rectangular shape, that gets folded over and sewn together at the bottom ribbing.
Uses bulky weight yarn
Designed by Gina Michele
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#10. Spotted Daphne Tea Cozy Free Knitting Pattern
This sweet and colorful tea cozy pattern uses small amounts of left over worsted weight yarn to create a charming, lined topper that really keeps tea hot. And what fun to knit! Stripes, dots and cheerful fields of bright shiny shades make for a joyful summer knit you can enjoy all year long.
Spotted Daphne employs some pretty exciting techniques, too. She’s knit from the bottom up, both flat and in the round, using stranded knitting to make the dots. Then the top is shaped in cheery stripes and crowned with an I-cord loop. Inside, you’ll create the bright lining by picking up stitches and knitting upward. You’ll finish by joining the lining to the shell with a nifty 3-Needle Bind Off. So throw some happy skeins into a bag and cast on a great summer knit!
Spotted Daphne fits a 6-cup globe style teapot.
Uses worsted weight yarn
Designed by Cheryl Toy
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