Gingerbread House Tea Cozy
hand knitting pattern

When I was a little girl I begged my mother every year to make a gingerbread house. She was overrun with her own holiday baking list so eventually, my aunt and uncle in another state had one delivered. Not just a gingerbread house but a gingerbread house full of cookies when I opened the roof. I was elated!!

I ate the cookies but I kept the gingerbread house on a shelf in my room for years. It wasn’t just a decoration but a prize. Victory over my mothers refusals.

When I was a teenager they came to visit. “Oh look! That looks just like the one we sent you when you were a little girl!” My mother grimaced, “that IS the one you sent her when she was a little girl.” Fond memories—now forever preserved in knit.

Perfect to keep the hot tea warm. Even better for keeping a steaming pot of cider or cocoa hot on a cold winter’s night.