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!

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out.

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs.

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make.

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color.

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash.

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail).

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs.

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]

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