Those of you who visited Yarndale last year may remember our Tea Cosy Challenge. It was was a huge success with 31 amazing tea cosies made by our talented visitors to raise money for Macmillan Nurses.

This was a joint venture between Yarndale and local business The Tempest Arms, and we were both thrilled by the incredibly inventive entries…..

….each beautiful creation was sold at Yarndale, raising a heart warming £200 for Macmillan.

Yarndale is once again teaming up with The Tempest Arms and this year we really want to raise even more money for this fabulous charity. We have decided on something equally egg-citing………………….

……….introducing the 2014  Egg Cosy Challenge!!

The idea is simple. All you need to do is to make four super-duper hand made egg cosies. They can be made from yarn or fibre of any kind (knitted, crocheted, felted, stitched etc) and can be as outlandish or serious as you care to make them.

We need a set of four which can either be identical or with a theme, but they do need to look like they belong to a set. There are a tonne of really cute egg cosy creations to be found on the internet, so we thought you might like to see some of our favourite egg-warming finds to get your creative sparks flying….

 sheep cosy

 Minion cosy

 lamb cosy

 camper van cosy

springtime cosy

animal cosies

♥Awwwwwwwww, aren’t they wonderful?? We can’t wait to see what you come up with, and remember every entry has a chance to win a fabulous prize :: this year the prize is a one night stay for up to 12 people at the Lumley Fee Bunkhouse in the heart of the Lake District, how cool is that?!

All you need to do is get busy with your yarn, hooks and needles and make a set of FOUR EGG COSIES to enter into the competition.

Closing date for all entries is 20th SEPTEMBER 2014

Please deliver/post your entries to the following address ::

THE TEMPEST ARMS, Elslack, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 3AY.

Please mark your envelope/package clearly with the words “Egg Cosy Challenge”

Terms and Conditions

*each entry must have the name & age of the entrant attached to the cosies

*all entries must be handmade using yarn or fibre, either crocheted, knitted, felted or stitched

*all entries become the property of The Tempest Arms and Yarndale

*All entries will be sold at a set price of £5 per set during the Yarndale festival

* all proceeds will be donated to MACMILLAN NURSES

*the winning entry will be announced on the morning of 27th September at the Yarndale Festival

*the prize must be redeemed by 30th November 2014

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!