Universal Mug Cozy Pattern
with personalized touches Tracy Chen Crochet Pattern · Crafty Beats · December 2009
Crocheted Mug Cozy
a pattern that fits all mugs AND POSSIBLE VARIATIONS
Tools and materials
Crochet hook and yarn of your choice; a mug for which the cozy is made for.
Design
A cozy is used to protect one's hands when the mug is filled with hot liquid, e.g. tea, coffe or just boiled water Therefore, the finished pece should be able to keep the hands and the mug surface apart. The piece should fit the mug tightly so that it won't fallout. Heavier yarns work generally better, while light weighted crochet threads are NOT recommended. Although it is posible to ad some lace patterns tomake it more special, fulace pattern should be avoided unless you don't mind boiling your hands. Besides, the height of the piece (H in the figure) should be little shorter than the height ofthe mug, otherwise the cozy gets soaked with your tea/ coffee whenever you are drinking them. The figure above gives an overallilustration of such a cozy. The dotted line means the two sides are connected. $L$ is the perimeter of the mug; His the height of the cozy; $N$ is the size of the ear on the mug: $h$ measures the distance between the bottom of the mug and the bottom of the ear; /is the distance between the two side of the cozy that are separated by the ear, then $M$ $=L{-}l.$ This pattn nly gives arough guide onhwaczy canbe made foraparticularmg.
General pattern
Start from the bottom Ch until it is enough to go around the mug, sl st to the first chain; $\mathrm{{}^{*}C h}$ S sc to the 2nd ch from the hook, sc til the end, sl st to the chain; repeat from \* til the length oftherowsrecaches h; Ch, \*sc to the 2nd sc from the hook, sc til the end, ch, turn; repeat from \* til the length of the whole piece reaches one row less than H; Ch to make thebutton hole, alengthof/works well sl st to thebeginning of theqthor 3d row below, s st on the row, turn, sc on the chains back to the beginning ofthe last row Sc and dec every $\acute{4}$ or 5 st til the end of the row, fast off. Sew on a buton on the side opposite to the made button hole; use the piece as a embroidery canvas to add some personalized embroidery it was single color pattern of names made of only chain stitches; cross stitch patterns may also work.
Variations
Th pattern can be easilyadapted with double stitches oreven knitting tohave softer textures. One double stitch (de) corresponds roughly 3 sc. Using de for this pattern means much ess rows to make. Similarly, it is very straightforward to substitute a few rows with more sophisticated pattern, say filets or shell stitches. As forkitting, anytypes of stitches canbeused: gartr, cable, seed oreven striped stithe s long as the piece matches the mug. Another alternative is to crochet from side to side rather than from to bottom to the top. That is to start with chains of H, and then make sc rows oflength Htil M, make sc rows of only h til $L$ and join the two sides together with sc or sl st (the dotted line). It would be natural to add extra sc or sl st rows to the top and the bottom to have smoother edges. Also, you can add interesting patterns by changing yarns/ colors through the proces. In case the mug is not stricly peaking acylinder, it is important toinc orec according to th shape of the mug.
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