The Cat's Meow

Hubby's Aunty Rona has long been associated with knitting, yarn, and fibre arts in general. When she was much younger she worked for Patons in Melbourne, and long time President of the Knitter's Guild NSW in her area of Sydney (I may have some of these details wrong, going from my faulty memory - but you get the idea!).

In recent years she has taken up freeform knitting & crochet - and these incredible tea cosies are some of her creations. She doesn't write patterns down, she just makes them up as she goes. So these are all unique!

I love this series of Ronald Searle inspired cat cosies :




This eggplant cosy is my favourite - Rona actually grew eggplants in her garden so she could then sketch and paint them from life, and from this she created this cosy - it has a lot of embroidery on it, as well as knitting and crochet, and padding inside.
This Christmas Pudding tea cosy was inspired by a similar design in Killer Tea Cosies by A and D Wallis.

There's another photo or two on this post from 2006. She is one talented lady!

All cosies designed and made by Rona E Warner, fiber artist.
Reproduced with permission. Photos by my mother-in-law Chris.