How to Knit the Suffragette Chain – Tea Cosy Knitting Help Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to knit the chain for the Suffragette Tea Cosy. It’s the decorative knitted chain she’s fastened to the railings with, and it’s part of the storytelling of the design.

The video gives a clear step‑by‑step guide to making the chain links, joining them neatly and blocking the finished chain so it hangs straight. It’s the same method used in the original Suffragette Tea Cosy knitting pattern.

You can get the Suffragette Tea Cosy pattern here...

The cosy celebrates the British suffrage movement and is full of lovely details: the Votes for Women sash, the rosette, the violet dress and green coat, and of course the symbolic chain that loops over the teapot spout. The chain looks more complicated than it is, and once you’ve made the first couple of links the technique becomes very easy to repeat. Blocking makes a big difference to the final look.

This chain method is useful for the Suffragette Tea Cosy, but it’s also a handy technique for any project that needs a decorative knitted chain. It creates sturdy, tidy links and is a reassuring technique to learn if you enjoy trying something a bit different in your knitting.






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