Welcome to Cosy Cosies online shop - beautiful handmade fabric cosies and covers

I’ve always made things. As a child I made blobby animals from clay in my mother’s pottery, and ill-fitting outfits for my teddies. Gradually, though, the animals became more recognisable, and my bears became visions of sartorial elegance, and I realised that I had a knack for designing things and putting them together. Eventually I moved away from clay altogether and embraced fabric as my medium of choice, making clothes and other things, mostly as gifts for friends and family, and soft furnishings for my home.

Recipients of my creative efforts have frequently remarked that the things I gave them (cushion covers, shirts, night-caps, tea cosies, and so on), were good enough to sell. So, I decided to put a few tea cosies in my sister-in-law's shop, The Cromarty Pottery, to complement the beautiful teapots she makes, and Cosy Cosies was born. I now make and sell beautiful, desirable and handmade Tea Cosies (in three sizes), Hot Water Bottle Cosies, and Gadget Cosies for iPhone and iPod Touch. I’m currently at work designing a new cosy, a protective cover for Apple’s popular iPad, and hope to be adding this to my online shop very soon.

I live and work in a very old sandstone house on the sea-front in Cromarty Fishertown in North East Scotland, with an old Rayburn in the large kitchen, and a large gray sleeping cat called Douglas always around somewhere. Warmth and comfort are important to me, as I hope is reflected in the cosies I make. The colours and fabrics have been chosen to feel soft, and to look, well, cosy.