Christmas Themed Coffee Cup Cozy Knitting Patterns

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!

Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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