The Captain James Cook Tea Cosy is a knitted tribute to a famous man who celebrates the anniversary this year, of discovering Australia 250 years ago. The tea cosy of Captain James Cook was designed to look like one of the famous portraits of him of the time in his Royal Navy captains uniform.

As you might expect, Cook is holding the ships charts and a trusty telescope to spot new lands. Around the back of him as a nod to his accomplishments of discovering Australia, there is an adorable wallaby.

This is a mammoth knitting pattern and certainly not for the faint hearted. If you love a knitting challenge, this one is a great project. I suppose the trickiest part is knitting from two needle simultaneously to join the work, there are photos to show you, and it is only two rows that requires this. There is also knitting to the the back of a stitch from a previous row, but again a handy photo give you a good look at whats happening. The buttons on the front lapels are knitted bobbles, it did save on a lot of sewing buttons on afterwards, but then you have got the fiddle of knitting bobbles; but they do look the part.

The Captain James Cook tea cosy fits a medium sized tea pot that covers a Teapot that holds 6 to 8 cups or 2 pints.

The pattern will be available for digital download as soon as you have completed purchase, so you could start knitting him very soon!

This product is the knitting pattern only to make your own Captain James Cook tea cosy.