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?

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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