'Granny-Chic'?

I have one, but it's not knitted - it came from the NT shop at Styal Mill, made from their own textiles. Not sure where it is, though...

Our tea stays warm, and doesn't stew, without a teacosy thank goodness - I wouldn't give even a chic one house room.

What is all this nonsense about tea cosies? It is a purely practical item, so that the second cup is not lukewarm! Do we really have to worry whether it is chic? What is the world coming to?

I have been inspired by this thread and now everyone will receive a knitted tea cosy with their Christmas pressies. Thanks girls!!

I have a supply of dark chocolate in my fridge. It's quite safe - I live alone. Dark chocolate is good for the endorphins, so I have a scientific justification. For non scientific people it's that time of month and never mind how old I am!

MaryXYX I have just seen your reference to chocolate and its now too late to buy any chocolate that is suitably dark for my tastes or to go out in search of it. Big sigh.

absent It was made specially for the raffle. I would have settled for a noce plain sponge.

I do agree with that line of popular but that doesn't mean chic. Not that I've ever been either, but even so.

I ought to come with a warning label: "Caution: elderly female geek". Every now and then I think about taking up some traditional granny activity but I get some chocolate and I soon feel normal again.

Elegran Presumably the crinoline lady cake was designed for a child's party – in which case texture and flavour are of no importance compared with its trampling into the carpet qualities.

No, but a couple of years ago I won a cake in a raffle. It was exactly like one of those crinoline lady loo-roll covers, a small china doll embedded in a piped and ruffled crinoline dress. Looked better than it tasted - dry sponge and roll-out artificial icing with no flavour.

Do any gransnetters know of the continuing existence of any. We could have a prize for the most ghastly one!

Nelliemoser They – pastel or dayglo – were never chic and aren't now. Popular apparently, but that's something wholly different.

How about crocheted crinolined lady spare toilet roll covers? In Dayglo colours Are they still chic?

MaryXXX - you are a proper 21st century granny!

I make instant coffee in a mug. If a visitor prefers tea I put a teabag in a mug. I have never knitted or crocheted - have I failed the "proper granny" test?

If I haven't already I'm about to. I'm much more likely to have a partly built computer in my flat than be involved in knitting or cooking.

Oops - google "fish and chip babies" and/or st mary's luton and see if you can get there!
www.stmarysluton.org might be it

Jeni click on' Andy Humm's ordination' - it's all out of sinc!!

Link doesn't work!

I'm 1/4 way through crocheting a beanie for DGD. As I haven't crocheted for 40 years , this is some effort on my part!

While we are on the subject of knitting, littlest DD's MIL has told me she is knitting for "fish and chip babies" - have you heard of these? These are poor little babies, mostly HIV positive born in Uganda to such poverty that they are sent home wrapped in newspaper to keep them warm.
Do look at this - I know many of you are keen crafters and knitters. Can you imagine a poor little scrap wrapped in newspaper for warmth? It beggars belief and is just so sad expecially when you think about the prospects they face if they survive the early years at all. This is the link, and a quote from the news item:
(You can see a picture of Eileen who has organised the appeal )"in front of a communion table covered with brightly coloured little knitted jumpers and hats. They had been knitted in response to an appeal on Mothers Day in March to knit them for the "fish and chip babies" of Uganda. These babies, mostly born HIV positive, are born into such poverty that traditionally they have left hospital wrapped in newspaper. However now even newspaper is too expensive. So we had undertaken to help meet their needs by knitting jumpers and hats. And a communion table and a further two tabels covered with 200 jumpers and 100 hats was the result.
The jumpers and hats will be delivered to Uganda by friends."

www.stmarysluton.org/news-and...d-chip-babies

I think it stops cooking when you crack the shell, so you do that and then put your cosy on (the egg ,of course!) Mine is knitted in 2plain , 2 purl rib like a little hat and has a little bobble on the top.

Is that true, about the yolk going hard? I thought that once it was out of the pan it was more or less 'set' like that . Prince Charles must have to test his boiled eggs pretty quickly every morning!

gally

I remember egg cosies; made out of felt like a chicken with a red comb!! Totally useless article as if you don't eat the egg straight away the yolk goes hard so what's the point of keeping it warm? As useless as a knitted willy-warmer which the late Mr.G was once given as a joke by a neighbour - one size fits all ?

I remember those, Hunt but don't remember who made them - the sort of thing people would donate to bring and buy sales because they didn't know what to do with them!