A granny square teapot cozy is a great project to practice the granny stitch or use up some spare granny squares. I’m using pumpkin granny squares for mine.
In the Tidy my craft room video we went over some of my languishing projects. In that pile, I uncovered two pumpkin granny squares leftover from the granny square vest. They were too cute to frog. My initial thought was to turn them into a coaster. However, after coming up with an actual pumpkin coaster pattern… PIVOT!
After 12 days of consulting with the muses, on Sept 16, Inspiration. Why not make 2 more squares with the same yarn and use them for a granny square teapot cozy.
The yarn
As the purpose of the granny square teapot cozy is to keep your drink hot longer, I recommend using a wool based yarn. While I don’t have a lot of information on the yarns that I used, I do recall they all had a percentage of wool.
In addition to the orange and butter cream color used for the granny square I leaned even more into the pumpkin theme by using an olive green for the very top of our cozy. All of the yarns used in the cozy are within the sport weight range. Listing some of my faves for you below
Construction of the Granny Square Teapot cozy
As the name of the project would suggest, we begin building our cover by crocheting and joining two granny squares, twice. Once these are joined we treat them like a granny rectangle. Then we attach yarn at the top and work our way around joining our two panels together. Next, we proceed with decreasing to close our circle and complete the cozy.
In order to crochet up this granny square teapot cozy you will need to be familiar with
- Granny squares
- Seaming
- Working flat
- Working in the round
- Decreasing
- Single crochet
Description
The granny square teapot cozy is an excellent project to use up any granny squares you may have hidden around your house. Not only is this a great project to use up some spare granny squares, but it’s a great scrap busting one as well. You can even turn it into seasonal decor item by switching out the granny squares used in the main portion of the cozy.
Granny Square Teapot Cozy
This video is more of a visual guide not a full tutorial.
Materials
- 35g total of a wool sport weight yarn
- 4mm crochet hook and a 3.5mm for the top and topper
- Yarn needle for weaving in ends
- Scissors
Finished size given in inches
Widest part flat – 7.75” ( 15.5 )
Top to bottom – 6.5”
My teapot measurements
- Widest point flat – 8”
- Top to bottom – 6”
Gauge
- Pumpkin granny square – 3.5” x 3.5” made with sport weight yarn and a 4mm crochet hook
Sts – Us terms
- Ch – chain
- Sl st – slip stitch
- Sc – single crochet
- Dc – double crochet
- Dc2tog – double crochet decrease
Special sts
- Granny stitch – 3dc in the same space
- Granny corner – ( granny st, ch1, granny st ) all in the same space
- Granny dec – Dc, start a dc dec, cross over to the next space, complete your dc dec, dc in this space as well. Counting the tops of the sts you should have 3dc’s
- stacked sc – stacked single crochet. Make a single crochet, insert your hook into the left leg of the sc just made, YO and pull up a loop, YO and complete the sc. Your stacked single crochet is complete
Notes
- Beg ch doesn’t count as a stitch
- [ ] x # indicates that you complete the instructions in the brackets the designated number of times. Example [ sc, dc ] x 5.
Let’s make our granny square teapot cozy.
We begin by making 4 granny squares that measure 3.5″ by 3.5” For this project I’m using my pumpkin granny square.
Once we have our 4 granny squares, join 2 tog. You should have two separate panels.
Round 1: Attach your yarn to the bottom right corner of one panel.
- Make a granny st in this space
- granny st between the granny st, granny corner in the ch1 space
- granny st between granny sts until you reach the space where the squares meet, granny st dec
- [ Granny st between the grannies until you reach the next corner, granny corner in this space ] x 2
- then granny st between the granny sts until you reach the space where the squares meet, granny st dec
- granny st between the granny sts until you reach beg corner, granny st, sc to the first st to join the round, ch1 and turn.
Row 2: stacked sc, ch1, granny st between the granny sts until you reach the next ch1 space, ch1, dc in the space. Cut yarn and fasten off
Repeat the above instructions for the remaining panel.
Top of our granny square teapot cozy
In this section we are going to be joining our panels to work in the round.
First Round
- Attach yarn to the top right hand corner of one panel, make a stacked sc
- Granny st between the grannies until you reach the next ch1 corner
- Start a granny st dec, cross over to the ch1 corner from the rem panel and complete your granny st dec.
- Granny st between the grannies until you reach the next ch1 corner, start a granny st dec, complete it at the beg space, sl st to the top of the stacked sc to join the round.
- If you would like to switch colors as I have done, then cut yarn and fasten off. If not sl st to the space between the granny st.
Second Round – 3.5mm crochet hook
- Attach new color to the left of the granny st dec
- Stacked sc
- [ Granny st, granny dec ] x 5
- Granny st
- Start a granny dec but complete it in the beg space, sl st to the top of the stacked sc to join the round.
- Sl st to the first space between granny sts
Third Round
- Stacked sc
- [ Granny st, granny dec ] x 4
- Granny st
- Start a granny dec but complete it in the beg space, sl st to the top of the stacked sc to join the round, ch1
Fourth
- * Dc, dc2tog; rep from * to end of round, join with a sl st to the first dc.
fifth
- Sc in each st around
- Cut yarn and fasten off
Topper
Rnd 1: attach yarn to the front loop of a sc, sc in each front loop around, sl st to the first sc to join, ch1.
Ends 2 to 4 – sc in each st, ch1
After completing round 4, fasten off and cut yarn leaving a long tail.
Thread the rail through the yarn needle. Insert yarn needle from back to front at the top of each st (like a running stitch). Pull the tail tightly to close the topper. Weave in ends
Seaming
Turning your granny square teapot cozy so that your right sides are facing, attach yarn ½” from the bottom and seam side for 1”. Repeat for remaining side.
We are just seaming the bottom part of our teapot cozy because at the top we joined in the round.
If you want to see how I usually seam tune into extra warm tea pot cozy tutorial minute 17:41.
Make sure that you weave in all your ends. Our granny square tea pot cozy is complete! If you are crocheting a pumpkin one like I did, you could embellish with a pumpkin leaf and vine.
