We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: A tea cosy is an essential kitchenware item that is used to keep the teapot and the tea inside the pot, hot. A simple item and a simple purpose, yet there are so many tea cosy knitting patterns on the market to choose from, obviously there is something else going on with tea cosies that is less simple. There is. People take a lot of time and care when choosing a tea cosy knitting pattern because they are choosing the right pattern for them; and there is a lot to take into consideration. This octopus-shaped vessel by Miel-Margarita Paredes is a fully functional teapot with a removable lid over the hollow space in the head that forms the body of the teapot, and a curved tentacle forms the spout. Octopus Teapot (front view) Octopus Teapot (underside)

We do our best to meet the delivery timescales that we quote, but occasionally deliveries can be late due to circumstances outside of our control. When you have found a few tea cosy knitting patterns that have reached your short list, you might ask yourself which pattern would be the easiest to knit? Which would be the cheapest to knit? Which would be the most fun to knit? All these factors will have an influence on which pattern you choose, and you might discard a few patterns. In addition to creating metal sculptures, Paredes also creates puppet armatures for the stop-action animation studio LAIKA. Her puppets appear in the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and ParaNorman (2012) To start with people do choose tea cosy knitting patterns based on a gut instinct of what they like. The see a photo and they have an instant reaction to the cosy, they either have to have it, or they can pass on by. This reaction just goes to show how personal choosing a tea cosy can be; the cosy has to speak to us and has to connect to our personality.Sometimes we have knitting patterns or particular pattern designers recommended to us from other fellow knitters. Pattern recommendations are usually passed on if a pattern was particularly good, easy to follow, had impressive results, was fun to knit, was clear to understand or stood out from the crowd in some way. What other knitters say tend to influence our decision making. If you are going to invest time, effort and money into creating a new tea cosy, you understandably want it to turn out fabulously, and having a recommendation of a brilliant pattern or a good knitting pattern designer could make a difference to the finished tea cosy that you make. Paredes is a metalsmith and artist known for creating sculptures based on naturalistic animal forms. Some themes in her work include fashion accessories for animals, mechanical toys that imitate the motion of rabbits and birds, decorative objects incorporating animal faces and mouths, and metal helmets. In addition to this teapot, Paredes has also made functional tea infusers in the shapes of cicadas and moths, as well as a wearable, octopus-shaped helmet titled The Dullest Pencil . You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: Franz, Janie. “ Miel-Margarita Paredes Imaginatively Reinterprets Our World.” Copper in the Arts, Apr 2009. Society of North American Goldsmiths. SNAG Conference Program, 40 th Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 26–29, 2011, p. 23.

Many of Paredes’s sculptures explore ideas about how humans interact with other animals, including anthropomorphizing the needs and desires of domesticated animals (as Paredes did in her Accessories series) and the symbolism of displaying animal bodies as hunting trophies or decorative works (as Paredes did in the Trophies and Gnaw series). It is not clear if Paredes intended for Octopus Teapot to have a specific symbolic meaning, but it is interesting to note that this teapot—a tool for human use—is in the form of a non-human animal which is known to use tools as well, and that it dispenses drinkable liquid from a creature that is sometimes dangerously poisonous, but also is consumed as food. We do not deliver furniture free of charge outside mainland UK. We can help you organise a delivery if possible, but we can't pay for it. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.