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Make this quick and easy Festive Cup Cozy for this holiday season! Add the holly embellishment for a cheerful vibe or skip it for a simple, everyday design. You can even use the embellishment alone for other Christmas projects. This pattern is fast to crochet and makes a great last-minute gift!
Quick Crochet Festive Cup Cozy Pattern
Looking for a fun and fast crochet project? Try this festive Coffee Cozy pattern! Add the optional holly embellishment for holiday cheer, or skip it for a clean and simple design.
Supplies
Yarn: Bernat Handicrafter Cotton. 50 g (1.75 oz) and 73 m (80 yds). Medium Worsted Weight Yarn. 100% Cotton. Machine wash and dry.
Colors: Cream, Green and Red
Crochet Hook: 5 mm (H) for the cup cozy and 4 mm (G) for the Holly and Berries.
Scissors, stitch marker and yarn needle.
Gauge
Approximately 3 sts per inch and 3 rows per inch worked in stitch pattern for coffee cup cozy.
You can substitute any yarn and hook for this stitch pattern – just remember when you substitute if your gauge is different, the finished size, and amount of yarn used for your project will also be different.
Finished Size
Cup cozy width approximately 2.5 inches X 11 inches length.
Abbreviations
US Terminology used
beg – begin
ch – chain
ch1sp – chain 1 space
dc – double crochet
DMR – double magic ring
hdc – half double crochet
picot – picot stitch (*see special stitches)
R – row/round
rem – remaining
rep – repeat
sc – single crochet
sk- skip
sl st – slip stitch
st/sts – stitch/stitches
tr – treble
* – ** Repeat the instructions between the asterisks the number of times indicated. This repeat will contain of multiple instructions.
() – Repeat the instructions between the parentheses the number of times indicated.
[] – at the end of the row – the total number of stitches
Special Stitch
Picot Stitch: Chain 2, work 1 sl st into the second ch from the hook.
When I work into the foundation chain, I prefer working into the back bar (back bump) of the chain. Feel free to work in the back loop instead if you prefer.
The turning chain does not count as a stitch.
Do not slip stitch to join unless written.
Color changes: When changing colors, do so on the last yarn over of the last stitch of the row. This means when you are making a single crochet stitch and using the same color as the current row, insert hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up 1 loop. Then for the last yarn over switch to the new color; yarn over and pull through the 2 loops on your hook to complete the stitch.
To make the Cup Cozy longer chain more stitches using the stitch multiple.
To make the Cup Cozy wider, work more repeats of R2.
This project is crocheted in rows before being seamed into its final cup sleeve shape.
With your 5 mm (H) crochet hook or size needed for gauge and green yarn:
R1: With green: Ch 33, sk the first ch and work 1 sc in each rem ch across. Ch 1 and turn. [32 sc]
TIP: See Notes for Color Changes.
R2: With cream: Sk the first st, *2 sc in the next st, sk the next st**. Work from * to ** across to the last st. Work 2 sc in the last st. Ch 1, turn. [32 sc]
R3: With green: Rep R2. [32 sc]
R4-R6: With cream: Rep R2. [32 sc]
R7: With green: Rep R2. [32 sc]
R8: With cream: Rep R2. [32 sc]
R9: With green: Rep R2. [32 sc]
Proceed to finishing instructions.
Finishing Instructions
Finish off leaving about 8 inches of yarn to sew the side edges of the cup cozy together.
Whip stitch the side two edges closed to form a tube.
Weave in any remaining ends.
How to Crochet an Easy Holly Embellishment
Holly Leaves Crochet Pattern
Make: 2, or 3 (depending on how you want yours to look!)
With your 4 mm (G) crochet hook and green yarn:
R1: Ch 9; sk the first ch, work 2 sc in next ch, 1 hdc in the next ch, 1 dc in the next ch, 1 tr in the next ch, 1 dc in each of the next 2 chs, 1 hdc in the next ch, (1 sc, ch 1, 1 sc) in the end ch. Rotate your work to continue across the opposite side of the foundation chain. 1 hdc in the next ch, 1 dc in each of the next 2 chs, 1 tr in the next ch, 1 dc in the next ch, 1 hdc in the next ch, 1 sc in the next ch. [5 sc, 4 hdc, 6 dc, 2 tr, 1 ch1sp]
R2: 1 sl st in the first st, 1 sl st in the next st, 1 picot st (see special stitches). *Work 1 sl st in each of the next 3 sts, work 1 picot st.** Work from * to ** one more time. Work 1 sl st in each of the next 2 sts, work 1 picot st. Work 1 sl st in the ch1sp, and 1 sl st in the next st, work 1 picot st. Work from * to ** 2 more times. Sl st to the initial sl st to join.
Finish off leaving a yarn tail for sewing the leaves together and to the cup cozy.
Proceed to finishing instructions.
Holly Berries Pattern
Make: 3
With your 4 mm (G) crochet hook and red yarn:
R1: In a DMR, ch 1 and work 5 sc. Sl st to ch 1 to join. [5 sc]
Proceed to finishing instructions.
Finishing Instructions
Sew the 2 leaves together at one point as shown in the image below.
Sew the leaves to the cup cozy (I sewed down the center of the stem only).
Sew the 3 berries to the cup cozy as shown in the image below, or if you are making just the holly embellishment you would sew the berries directly to the leaves.
Weave in any remaining ends.
I really love how it looks and it is so simple and quick to make!
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Hi Tammy, I contacted Mistie who organized the CAL and she is searching for her missing post! I hope to have the link to you soon!
Could you send me a link to the 2015 holiday blog hop
Thank you
Tammy
This is a lovely pattern indeed. Best for a Christmas gift.
I just LOVE it!!! A perfect gift for my club members. Thank you!
Very Welcome Wendy 🙂
Rhonda, thank you! I appreciate your research and help, my sisters will too when they receive their cozy with various embellishments.
Hi Wendy, I hand stitched it on the cup cozy just like if I were to attach an embellishment to a hat. Working around the posts of the stitches in the same color yarn as the embellishment. For a removeable one – all I can think of is using multiple small pieces of yarn – weaving it through the back edges near the corners of the embellishment and then tying it in a simple knot on the inside of the embellishment. Then you can snip those to remove it; or simply untie them. This is what I do for my hats – to allow me to switch the embellishments on some of them. Or you could use snaps – but if you use snaps you would not be able to use the cozy without an embellishment. Hope this helps! Rhondda
This chart does not tell how to attach the embellishment. Could you share a way to make it removable? I am thinking of making different ones, for example a heart for Valentines’s day, that could be added and removed easily to change – maybe a small safety pin?
I love this!! A sweet and simple festive project!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much.
Hi Cindy, I will try to do one in the next couple days 🙂 All the best, Rhondda
I know you’re busy but could you possibly do a tutorial on the leaf.
For some reason I can’t get it.
I love the free patterns. The coffee cozy is really cute. N
Hi Tammy, Here’s the post link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190908212159/http://americancrochet.com:80/collaborated-hops-crochet-alongs/2015-holiday-blog-hop-free-holiday-crochet-patterns/ Sorry it took so long! The post was misplaced when she migrated to a new Wordpress plan. It is there now and I’ve updated my posts with the new link. All the best, Rhondda
Hi Tammy, I contacted Mistie who organized the CAL and she is searching for her missing post! I hope to have the link to you soon!
Could you send me a link to the 2015 holiday blog hop
Thank you
Tammy
This is a lovely pattern indeed. Best for a Christmas gift.
I just LOVE it!!! A perfect gift for my club members. Thank you!
Very Welcome Wendy 🙂
Rhonda, thank you! I appreciate your research and help, my sisters will too when they receive their cozy with various embellishments.
Hi Wendy, I hand stitched it on the cup cozy just like if I were to attach an embellishment to a hat. Working around the posts of the stitches in the same color yarn as the embellishment. For a removeable one – all I can think of is using multiple small pieces of yarn – weaving it through the back edges near the corners of the embellishment and then tying it in a simple knot on the inside of the embellishment. Then you can snip those to remove it; or simply untie them. This is what I do for my hats – to allow me to switch the embellishments on some of them. Or you could use snaps – but if you use snaps you would not be able to use the cozy without an embellishment. Hope this helps! Rhondda
This chart does not tell how to attach the embellishment. Could you share a way to make it removable? I am thinking of making different ones, for example a heart for Valentines’s day, that could be added and removed easily to change – maybe a small safety pin?
I love this!! A sweet and simple festive project!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much.
Hi Cindy, I will try to do one in the next couple days 🙂 All the best, Rhondda
I know you’re busy but could you possibly do a tutorial on the leaf.
For some reason I can’t get it.
I love the free patterns. The coffee cozy is really cute. N