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Christmas Themed Coffee Cup Cozy Knitting Patterns

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A couple of years ago I made a couple of Christmas tree coffee cup cozy knitting patterns as an introduction to knitting stranded knitting and intarsia. I love little projects like this because they don’t take long to knit but can bring a bit of holiday cheer to every day (and they’re great knit gifts for a teacher or someone else along with a gift card to your favorite coffee shop). 

Let’s look at some more fun coffee cup cozy knitting patterns with a holiday theme. 

Not all of these projects are overtly Christmas. This bulky coffee cup cozy from Whimsy North has a duplicate stitch tree on the side, but it’s not super festive. Other options are included such as knitting stripes or stitching on a snowflake or ornament. 

Or the Candy Cane Cozy from Sara Elizabeth Kellner, available as a free download on Ravelry. This two-color brioche cozy can be worked in holiday colors or not so you could use it all year long. It calls for worsted weight yarn and you can make a bunch with all your leftovers from other projects. 

The Blue Spruce Mug Cozy by Melissa Metzbower (originally published in I Like Knitting, now also available on Ravelry) has a cable pattern that looks like an evergreen tree, but out of the context of the holidays would just be a pretty design. This one is also worsted weight. 

And Danielle Thuen’s First Flake coffee cozy has colorwork snowflakes, so it’s a great one to use all winter long. It’s worked in fingering weight yarn in two colors, and you can grab the pattern on Ravelry. 

If you want a cozy that’s a little more obvious in its association with Christmas, I’ve got you covered as well. The Holiday Doodle cup Cozy from Jamie Lomax uses some of her holiday doodles and a plain coffee cup sleeve so you can add trees, snowflakes, plaid or other designs. Find the pattern, which uses DK weight yarn, on Ravelry. 

Or you can go all out to keep your mug (actual mugs not travel mugs for these last ones) warm with tons of holiday spirit by making a reindeer coffee cup cozy from Justjen Knits & Stitches, or a Santa complete with arms with this pattern from Yarn Hobby Home. Or you can find options for a sweater, Santa, snowman and gingerbread man in this pattern from Huggable Bears. I love that this one shows a gift in the mug that the cozy is on. Oh, what fun!

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.