An order for an 80th birthday present. “Could you make a tea cosy for my mum please? I need it to be pretty with lilacs and blues.  I said “Of course and thank you for the order.” I thought… got to get this right. Ta dah! There were some challenges along the way, namely finding lilacs and blues that blended together nicely, but I definitely enjoyed the whole creative process of bringing this little tea cosy together. No pompoms this time, it was decided that roses would be the decoration of choice. It took a while to settle on what colour to use for the flowers, but in the end I went for peach, as I thought it complimented the lilacs and blues well and was not only pretty, but delicate looking too. I wanted to get every detail perfect. I thought it would be more interesting to use three tones of peach in the roses and by varying the amounts I used in each rose I managed to make them all slightly different from one another. The leaves …