Quick Knits: Bottle Cozy Patterns

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about quick knitting projects that you can add to a purchased gift for the holidays. And one of the easiest of those is buying a great bottle of wine (or, heck, olive oil) and presenting it in a knit gift bag/bottle cozy.

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There are a ton of fun patterns for these sorts of projects (for starters check out my simple wine bottle cozy in self-striping yarn and the Chic cozy in a yarn with pompoms as part of the fiber). You can probably find a suitable project for yarn you already have in your stash, so there’s no excuse not to whip one of these up for a Christmas present or a hostess gift.

Here are a few more patterns for you to check out:

Red Heart has the Wrap Your Bottle Cozy, worked mostly in stockinette stitch in the round for a super-quick project; and the Striped Bottle Cozy, which is the same pattern but worked in stripes for stash busting.

Tara’s Knits has a fun Swirled Wine Bottle Cozy, which uses a shifting rib pattern for interesting texture. I particularly like this one because I have some of that exact yarn, even the same colorway, and it only takes a skein.

Samantha Rogers has a basic Felted Wine Cozy as a free Ravelry download. Hers is worked with two colors, but you could always stripe or do a solid one depending on the wool you have available. The Harry Wine Bottle Tote is another Raverly download and another felted project, this time with handles to make carrying even easier.

The Knit Wine Bottle Sweater from JustBCrafty is super cute because it looks like a little sweater, complete with cables and sewn on buttons (which are nonfunctional and you could skip if you’re in a hurry).

The Scroll Wine Cozy by Joanna Roye shows that an easy stitch pattern makes a cozy look that much fancier.

Speaking of fancy, the cozy patterns from DROPS are like little Scandinavian sweaters and truly are a gift themselves.

And since it’s Christmas, who can resist Hilary Carr’s Santa Bottle Cozy, complete with a wee hat?

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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