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Knit an Easy Ribbed Coffee Cozy

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knit a simple coffee cozyI love warm beverages pretty much all the time, but I don’t love that my mugs sometimes get too hot.

Coffee cozies are quick and easy projects that are also really useful for the coffee and tea drinking folks out there. I have a lot of them and I use them regularly.

Looking for more coffee cozy patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

This ribbed coffee cozy from Crafts by Amanda uses a rib stitch that’s made just a little bit fancier with a little twist. But of course you could use a regular rib stitch if you’d rather.

It’s great that this cozy has a hole for the mug handle, but if you use cups without handles you can just sew up the whole seam.

[Photo: Crafts by Amanda.]

Comments

  1. This is what I was looking for <3
    I need to knit a cozy for my coffee cup to ease my hand, I used to hold my coffee cup with my scarf that I wear daily! Lol 😀 . Now I am gonna make a Cozy by my own this is such a cute handcraft!

Have you read?

Learn a Flower Bobble Technique to Knit a Fun Shawl

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]