Can a tea cozy be cool?

For my last birthday Matt gave me a wonderful teapot. The only problem is that I can’t drink a pot of tea alone over the course of a morning because the tea gets cold. I think the solution to this problem is to get a tea cozy. I know that the term tea cozy probably brings visions of afternoons at grandma’s house with doilies and scotch mints but I think I could make a cool tea cozy. I’ve given it some thought and I think I’d like to knit a fair isle cozy. I’m imagining a pattern like this made into a tea cozy like this in earth tones.

It might take me a while to get to a wool store and get organized so I might make myself a java-a-go-go first.