Hot Water Bottle Cozy Knitting Patterns

When it’s cold outside I want to do everything I can to make myself a little more cozy. So far that has not resulted in me carrying a hot water bottle everywhere I go, but every year I’m a little more convinced that might be a smart option. If for no other reason than it opens up a new genre of knitting for me. Check out these cute and easy to knit hot water bottle cozy knitting patterns.

Just about as easy as you can get is this garter stitch hot water bottle holder from Thistle and Twig Crafts. It’s worked in worsted weight or chunky yarn (worsted weight yarn is held double) and knit on straight needles. It’s a great use for a couple of fun buttons, too.

Use leftover sock yarn to make a great little cozy for your hot water bottle with this pattern from Lavender Kato. It comes in two sizes for one or two liter bottles, and you can use whatever sock yarn you have on hand to make it solid, striped or wild. (They also have a DK weight version if you’d rather.)

Speaking of leftover sock yarn, Sue McRae has a free pattern on Ravelry that uses leftover sock yarn to make mitered squares that are turned into a hot water bottl cozy. This one will definitely make you smile on a cold and dreary day!

Add stripes and a bit of optional holiday flair to your hot water bottle with this design from Lauren Ashton Designs. It uses super bulky yarn and has a fun little collar and pompoms to close up the top, but you could use a plainer finish if you like. You can find the pattern on Ravelry.

Or make funkier stripes with the Ziggy hot water bottle cover from Zoe Johnson, which uses three colors of DK weight yarn and an easy zig zag pattern. It’s worked in the round from the bottom up and the colorwork is charted but also includes written instructions. Find the pattern on Ravelry.

The main reason I wanted to write about hot water bottle covers was because of this one, called Snowfall Town. Designed by Season Qian, it uses two strands of fingering weight yarn held together (or use a DK weight on its own) and is worked form the bottom up in a charted stranded colorwork pattern. It might look complex but this is a pretty easy stranded knitting pattern that would be lovely to cozy up with all winter long. Grab a copy on Ravelry.

If you need more help getting cozy for the winter, check out this post I wrote earlier in the year about things you can knit to make winter better.

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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