Free Knitting Pattern – Calais Coffee Cup Cozy

The Calais Coffee Cup Cozy is a beautiful and practical accessory for coffee lovers. The cozy features an elegant cable and lace pattern that adds a touch of style to your morning cup of coffee. Not only does it look great, but it also serves a practical purpose by protecting your fingers from the heat of your coffee and keeping it hot for longer.

The cozy is worked in the round from the bottom up, with increases worked mid-height to achieve a better fit. The pattern includes instructions for two sizes, one for a small coffee cup (8oz) and one for medium/large coffee cups (12oz/16oz), making it suitable for a variety of cup sizes.

Using a coffee cup cozy is a great way to keep your coffee hot while also protecting your hands from the heat. It also helps to reduce the number of disposable cups and sleeves needed, which is an environmentally friendly solution.

The Calais Coffee Cup Cozy is a quick and easy project that can be made in no time. It makes a great gift for coffee lovers or as a treat for yourself. So, if you want to add some style and practicality to your morning coffee routine, try out this cozy pattern today!

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When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations.

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind.

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca.

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl.

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions.

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic).

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only.

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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