Mod Mug Hugger...for a proper cosy cuppa.
C. S. Lewis once said "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me". With this insulating mug cosy your mug of tea (or coffee, if you are of that persuasion), will hold its warmth whilst you immerse yourself in your favourite book or past-time.
Materials:
·Aran weight yarn, about 25g. Three lcm buttons for fastening · Selection of co-ordinating buttons in various styles and sizes for decoration. (Optional). · % metre/yard of round eleastic, or some hair bands. Co-ordinating sewing thread.
Needles:
· 4.5mm (US size 7) straight needles, or size needed to obtainguage
Notions:
· Tapestry/knitters needle for weaving in ends ·Sewingneedle
Notes:
·Gauge:18stto 4" · Yarn used in pictures is a multicoloured yarn that I knit at a specific gauge to make it stripe. A near identical effect can be obtained by alternating colours of yarn each row. · If you wish to give your cosy a contrasting coloured border', knit rows 1-3 and 24-26 in the contrasting yarn, and use this same contrasting yarn to pick up and knit the rows of stitches at the short sides ofthe cOsy.
Instructions:
·c/o36stitches. ·Rows 1 -3 knit all stitches. · Rows 4 - 23 knit in stockinette stitch, beginning and ending with a purl row. ·Rows 24 -26 knit all stitches. · b/o all stitches. · With RS facing, pic cches along one of the short sides of the mug cosyitches · b/o all stitches.. · Repeat this along the oth ·Attach threelcm buttonsto one ofthe shortsides-one near each end and one in the middle, as in photograph. ·Formloops ofround elastic,making each loop 37mm (1%") long and either knotting or sewing the loop securely [see fig.1].Trim ends ofelastic. ·Sew elastic loops to reverse of mug cosy,on opposite side to where buttons are placed, in corresponding positions. · Decorate with co-ordinating buttons in random arrangement if desired.
If you have any questions/queries about this pattern please feel free to drop me a line on mimi@eskimimi.com and I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as I am able. @ Mimi Hill. Please feel free to link to this pattern or to tell others where to find it, but do not distribute copies of the pattern yourself, either electronically or in physical form. Items made using this pattern are not to be sold for profit, though private use (making the items for yourself or as a gift) is permitted and encouraged, and Mimi would love to hear from you if you enjoyed the pattern. Making items from this pattern for charity and fundraising are permitted and wholeheartedly encouraged.
