Easy Cable Coffee Cozy Sleeve Free Knitting Pattern

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The Amara is an easy cabled cup cozy pattern that perfectly fits your favorite cup or mug. These little cup sleeves are great stash busters so you can make them in all your favorite colors. Coffee cozies are great gifts for friends and neighbors too!

You can opt to knit this cozy flat and then seam it, or cast on in the round to knit it. To knit this cozy for a mug instructions include how to add a button loop. All options are included in the easy pattern below. To knit this one in the round you’ll need to be comfortable with magic loop (or willing to learn).

It is knit in WeCrochet’s Dishie yarn, which creates high definition stitches that pop in this cable pattern. If you wish to use an alternative yarn, be sure to choose a yarn that has some of structure and that meets the gauge requirements specified.

This coffee cup sleeve is a quick knit. Fun projects like these that are also useful for both the coffee lover and the tea lover tend to do well at craft fairs.

Materials

• 35 yds of WeCrochet’s Dishie* #4 medium worsted weight yarn (100% cotton, 190 yd (174 m) per 100 g skein) in shade Butterscotch: 1 skein.
• 4.5 mm (US 7)* 32”+ circular needles for knitting in the round, or needle size needed to meet gauge.
• Yarn needle, measuring tape, scissors, stitch marker(s), 1” button (optional).

Notes

1. Please read through all notes and pattern before you begin.
2. Please check gauge for best results.
3. To work this pattern flat the stitch multiple is 4 + 2. To work it in the round it’s 4.

Gauge

20 sts x 24 rows (after blocking) to 4” (10 cm) measured in St st.

Video 

Since cable knitting is an intermediate skill level project this simple pattern includes a full video too.

Watch the full video tutorial on my YouTube.

Sizing

4” tall x 8.25” long when worked flat

Skill Level

Intermediate

Tutorials

Germain Twisted CO

How to C2B without a cable needle.

How to C2F without a cable needle.

Construction

This coffee mug cozy can be knit 3 different ways: flat and seamed with the mattress stitch or knit in the round with magic loop, or knit flat with a button and loop cast on for a mug.

Adjustments

To knit a taller or shorter cozy simply add or subtract more reps, either of 4 or 8 rows/rnds.

To knit a larger or smaller (width) cozy cast on more or less stitches in multiples of 4, be sure the stitch multiple is 4+2 for knitting flat and 4 for knitting in the round.

Stitches

US Terms

BO – bind off

CO – cast on

c2b: cross two back—slip next st on to cable needle and hold at back, knit next st on left hand needle, knit st on cable needle. 

c2f: cross two front—slip next st on cable needle and hold it at the front, knit the next st on the left hand needle, then knit the st on your cable needle.

k – Knit

p – purl

rep – repeat

RS – right side

St st – stockinette stitch

st(s) – stitch(es)

Pattern Instructions

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