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!

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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