I’ve seen many of these mug cozies lately on the internet, usually just a knitted or crocheted tube that goes around your mug or travel cup, sometimes with a closure of some kind to fit into the closed handle of a mug. I’m not sure if it’s inspiration or just repeated exposure, but I finally decided I needed to try this out for myself. Not too out of the blue as we are a family that drinks hot drinks a lot: tea, coffee and hot chocolate. My kids sometimes complain that the mug is too hot to hold.
So I chose to make my mug cozy with a flat bottom so the part that you hold is all enclosed and bonus! you can set it down on any surface without the need for a separate coaster. This is a great use of leftover yarn from other projects. There were a couple of tricky spots to figure out. I thought that making the flat bottom would be the hardest but that wasn’t bad actually. I’m still working on shaping/sizing the hole for the bottom of the mug handle. I’m also going to make the button hole as I knit next time instead of doing it as an afterthought as I did with these first two. The first one was a bit too big and the second was a bit too small. Aggressive blocking made it work though. I think they look warm and inviting on these plain white mugs that I happened to have stashed in the basement. Oh the joy of being a packrat!
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I’ve admired these too and now I can admire yours because I’m much too busy to use my rusty knitting skills to figure it out. Perhaps a crocheted one would be within reach.
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This is very cute! I think I’ll add this to my to-do list for knitting. Thanks for sharing!!!
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Actually these are really fast, just figuring out who gets the last two mugs and what yarn I’ll use on them. Of course, what I really should be doing is sewing!
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How very cool !
Don’t you hate how you figure out how to do all the cool stuff when you have only a few days left til Christmas? No time to make mass quantities of them for presents.
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