Cosy Crochet

There are times when creativity takes us in sensible and useful directions. There are times when it takes us in not-so-sensible, but still practical or at least decorative directions. And then there are times when it takes us in not-so-sensible and really-not-very-useful directions!

I had one of these moments recently when I took it into my head that what I wanted, no, correction, what I needed to make was this:

"Er, why?", I hear you ask. "Well, just because...!"

In my defence, I would plead, "It woz the cute apple button wot dunnit!" and this item is not totally without practical function. I know, I know, "I am pedalling hard under the table!" but truly an apple cosy will keep an apple in a lunch box beautifully - instead of emerging bruised and brown after a few hours of being tumbled around, it will emerge intact and perfect (in my mind's eye anyway!) And set the apple cosy against that inviting, but totally impractical item, the serial mug cosy, for which you can buy whole bookfuls of patterns, and it's streets ahead. And before you ask, yes, I am drawn to crocheted mug cosies too, but the thought of unavoidable trickles of tea or milky coffee wending their way down the side of the mug into said mug cosies, whilst in use, has, (so far, anyway), stayed my hand and my hook but resistance is crumbling and it's only a matter of time before I suspect I will have given in!

"Moooving on" as my son would say! Well, one thing led to another and a conversation with a friend in which my compulsion for making an apple cosy met with a certain amount of derision and chortling, led to the suggestion, initially, let's not deny it, a facetious one, of making a potato cosy! OK, I know it's crazy but when the full palindromic force of  a "Jacket Potato Jacket" dawned on me there was no going back! And for those among you tempted to park the "Jacket Potato Jacket" alongside the "apple cosy" or even the siren voice of the "mug cosy" in terms of usefulness, allow me to disabuse you! This patent item keeps jacket potatoes properly hot if you want to dish them up and keep them a-while before serving without expending a single amp of non-renewable energy; for bonfire night they will be a Godsend - they will keep your hands warm as well as offering you traditional sustenance! What's not to like? In addition they are dead simple to make and don't even require a proper pattern. I know, because I tried to write one and got muddled and it still turned out OK!

Have a look at these cosy additions to our modern lifestyle and tell me you don't want one!

Actually, don't tell me you don't want one! Let me live in blissful ignorance! But I think the ship of the world which has a tolerant place for the frivolity of creative impulses that are not always first up in the usefully sensible stakes is a happier place for all who sail in her, whether those impulses result in apple, mug or potato cosies! And yes, I know I'm crazy...

but I don't care!

If you want to make one yourself, they're easy peasy and don't take long or much in the way of yarn. They are constructed on a similar principle to the apple cosy for which I tracked down the "Mollie Makes" pattern here. The potato version is just adapted to an oval rather than a round shape. 

Have a cosy day!