Description: Many knitters avoid Kitchener stitch. It’s NOT hard, you can do this! Learn not only how to work a basic kitchener in stockinette and garter stitch, but how to weave your knitting together in patterns. We will be making 4 cup cozies, one in garter, one in stockinette with garter stitch borders, one in K1, P1 ribbing, and one with garter borders, reverse stockinette stitch, and cables. Each cozy begins with a provisional cast-on and is shaped with short rows to better fit the cup. If you wish, omit the short rows and you will end up with cuffs or cozies for a water bottle.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Homework: Four cup cozies - These cozies are designed to fit a Starbucks Grande cup. You may need to work additional repeats for larger cups. You most definitely need to have negative ease on these. I am working with 1" negative ease from the diameter of the base of the cup. My cups are 8" around at the base.
Each cozy uses a provisional cast on. I like the method where you use a crochet hook and work a chain stitch around the knitting needle, but any type of provisional cast on will work. Judy's Magic Cast-on, or any other double-sided cast on will NOT work.
I used Japanese short rows in my samples, but any form of short rows you are comfortable working is just fine. I used short rows to make the cozies wider at the top than the bottom because this is how most to-go cups are shaped. If you plan to use yours around a cup that is straight-sided or a water bottle then you may choose to omit the short row shaping altogether.
I worked my samples using a contrast color to join them. This is obviously not invisible, if you wish yours to be totally invisible then leave yourself a 1-yard tail on each cozy when you break the yarn.
Materials needed for each cozy: Smooth, light colored Worsted weight yarn; size 8 needles; waste yarn
Garter Stitch Cup Cozy
Stockinette Cup Cozy
Ribbed Cup Cozy
Cabled Cup Cozy
Materials Fee: None
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