Power Tie Coffee and Beer Cozies, FREE Pattern

In keeping with my pattern of posting extremely last minute gift ideas, I have one for Father's Day! My Power Tie Cozies.

This pattern includes designs for a coffee cozy and a beer cozy. The coffee cozy was originally published in Happily Hooked Magazine, and I thought I'd give it a companion piece to share here. The coffee cozy fits most standard cups you get from from your favorite coffee house, and fits on pint glasses, while the beer cozy fits most bottles and cans. Whether your Dad's favorite vice is of the caffeine or alcohol variety, make him a tie he'll actually use!

This pattern whips up quickly, so you really do still have time to make one for Father's Day.

Power Tie Coffee and Beer Cozies

 Materials

• US H (5 mm) hook
• Worsted weight cotton yarn in two colors, A and B. Shown (left to right) in Lily Sugar’n Cream in Light Blue and Country Red, Soft Ecru and Country Red, and Light Blue and Barnboard
• TwistsYarn needle or Large eye blunt needle  

Gauge 
7 sc and 9 rows = 2”

Abbreviations

st(s) : stitch(es)

ch(s): chain(s)

sc: single crochet

hdc: half double crochet

dc: double crochet

sl: slipstitch

inc: increase (crochet two stitches in one space)

dec: decrease (crochet two stitches together)

BLO: back loops only

Special Stitches

Foundation single crochet (used in coffee cozy only): ch 2, insert hook in second ch from hook and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through one loop (chain made). Yarn over and pull through both loops. Succeeding stitches are worked into the chain made in the previous stitch.

Notes

1. Starting chains do not count as a stitch. 
2. Pattern is worked in rounds. Do not turn at the ends of rounds unless otherwise noted. For beer cozy only, pattern is worked in a spiral without joining rounds.

3. Repeat directions following * to end of round.

Instructions

Coffee Cozy Shirt

1: With A, leaving a slightly long tail to sew up gap, foundation single crochet 27 and join in a ring. (27)

2:  Ch 1, *sc; join to first sc. (27)

3:  Ch 1, *sc 8, sc inc; join to first sc. (30)

4-5: Ch 1, *sc; join to first sc. (30)

6: Ch 1, *sc 9, sc inc; join to first sc. (33)

7-8: Ch 1, *sc; join to first sc. (33)

9: Ch 1, *sc 10, sc inc; join to first sc. (36)

10-11: Ch 1, *sc; join to first sc. (36)

12: Ch 1, *sc 11, sc inc; join to first sc. (39)

13-14: Ch 1, *sc; join to first sc. (39)     

Begin Collar

1: Ch 1, sc in BLO, sc 3, (sc inc, sc 4) six times, sc inc, sc 3, sc in BLO. (46)

*Note: the tie will be worked into the two unworked front loops.

2: Ch 1, TURN, sc dec, sc 42, sc dec. (44)

3: Ch 3, TURN, dc, hdc, hdc dec, sc 2, (sc dec, sc 4) five times, sc dec, sc 2, hdc dec, hdc, dc, ch 3, sl in same space, ch 2 more and sl in row below. (36, not counting chains)

4: Ch 1, TURN, sl evenly up side edge of collar, in each stitch around, and down opposite edge. Tie off, leaving long tail to stitch down collar edge (enough for a few stitches on each side will do).  

Make Tie – pattern on pg 4

Beer Cozy Shirt

With A, make a magic ring

1: Sc 6 into magic ring. Mark ends of rounds. Work in a spiral; do not join rounds.

2: *Sc inc  (12)

3: *Sc inc, sc (18)

4: *Sc inc, sc 2 (24)

5: *Sc inc, sc 7 (27)

Work even until piece measures 5” laid flat.

Begin Collar

1: Ch 1, sc in BLO, sc 2, (sc inc, sc 3) five times, sc inc, sc 2, sc in BLO. (33)

*Note: the tie will be worked into the two unworked front loops.

2: Ch 1, TURN, sc dec, sc 29, sc dec. (31)

3: Ch 3, TURN, dc, hdc, hdc dec, (sc dec, sc 5,) three times, sc dec, hdc dec, hdc, dc. ch 3, sl in same space, ch 2 more and sl in row below. (25, not counting chains). 

4: Ch 1, TURN, sl evenly up side edge of collar, in each stitch around, and down opposite edge. Tie off, leaving long tail to stitch down collar edge (enough for a few stitches on each side will do).  

Tie (same for both versions)

With B, starting with a very long tail (approx 2 ft), hold cozy upside down and attach yarn in the first unworked front loop from the first round of the collar.

1: Ch 1, sc in same space, sc in the second unworked front loop. (2)

2-3: Ch 1, TURN, sc 2. (2)

4: Ch 1, TURN, sc inc 2 (4)

5-10: Ch 1, TURN, sc 4. (4)

11: Ch 1, TURN, sc dec 2. (2)

12: Ch 1, TURN, sc 2. (2)

13: Ch 1, TURN, sc dec. Tie off, leaving a long tail to sew the tie down to the shirt. (1)

 

Finishing

Shirt (coffee cozy only): Use a yarn needle to stitch up the gap left in the first round, and weave in yarn end.

Tie: With starting yarn tail, wrap yarn around the top 1/2” of the tie, weaving yarn through the back of the stitches with a yarn needle to secure them. Continue wrapping until the “knot” reaches your desired width. Tie off and weave in end. With opposite yarn tail, stitch around the outer edge of the tie to secure it in place. Weave in end.

Collar: Fold collar down. Using yarn needle, stitch down the collar along the two front points, weaving the yarn tail under the tie to reach the opposite side. Weave in end. 

 
Enjoy your Father's Day!

Candy Cane Coffee Cozy

If you're anything like me, the holidays always somehow come sooner than you expect, and you don't consider a gift "last minute" unless you're weaving in the ends in the car on the way to Grandma's. If you're like me and you're in the market for a quick stash-busting stocking stuffer, I have the free pattern for you!

 My Candy Cane Coffee Cozy uses just half an ounce of yarn total and works up super quick. It's a very simple pattern with just one unusual technique, a technique I'd say is actually easier than the usual method. If you've done crochet colorwork before, you likely know that color changes are smoother when done in the last yarnover of the stitch before the color change.

However, since this pattern is designed to spiral like the stripes on a candy cane, the color changes work best when made BETWEEN the stitches instead. For this method, you'd work a complete hdc with color A, then change to color B for the first yarnover of the next stitch. The result will look like this:

See how the last red stitch top appears over a white stitch, and the last white stitch top appears over a red stitch? This method works for this pattern because of the color changes shift one stitch to the left on each round. After round one, you'll work red stitches only into stitches with red tops and white stitches into stitches with white tops. Pretty nifty, eh?

For the last round of hdcs (Round 8), color changes are worked in the traditional method. In the last stitch before a color change, you'll use color A to yo, insert your hook into the stitch, yo and pull up a loop, then color B to yo the last time and pull through all the loops on the hook. The result looks like this:

Red tops on red stitches and white tops on white ones. This method is used for the final round of hdcs to give the piece a more finished look.

I wrote this pattern up in both a simple version and a detailed version. I find the simple version easier to follow, but if you'd rather see exactly how many stitches of each color and in what order they're worked, check out the detailed version. Both are free and both are below. A downloadable pdf is also available in my Ravelry Store. Enjoy!

Candy Cane

Coffee Cozy

  

Materials

• Worsted weight yarn in red and white. Shown in Red Heart Super Saver in Ranch Red and White.
• US H (5 mm) hook, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Tapestry or Large eye blunt needle

Notes

• Worked in a spiral; do not join rounds unless otherwise noted. Do not turn at ends of rounds.
• Repeat directions following * to end of round, unless otherwise noted.
•  Change colors between stitches rather than in the last yarn over of previous stitch, except in last round of hdcs. See this blog post for explanation:
• Color designations are given before the stitches they apply to. “White hdc 2” means to work the next two hdc in white.

 Abbreviations

ch: chain

sc: single crochet

hdc: half-double crochet

sl: slipstitch

inc: increase (crochet two stitches in one space)

Gauge

8 sts and 5.5 rows = 2 inches in hdc 

Simplified Instructions 

With white yarn, ch 31.

1:  Working into the bump on the back of each ch, join in a ring, ch 1 (does not count as first st), sc in same sp. Change to red. (Be sure to change colors between stitches.) *With red hdc 2, with white hdc 2.  Mark the end of this and each succeeding round. Do not join rounds. (31)

2-3:  *Hdc, working white stitches into white stitch tops and red stitches into red st tops.  (31)

4:  *Red hdc inc, hdc 1, white hdc 2, red hdc 2, white hdc 2. Last repeat will end with only 1 white hdc instead of 2.  (35)

5:  *Hdc, working white stitches into white stitch tops and red stitches into red st tops.  (35)

6:  White hdc 2, red hdc 3, white hdc 2, red hdc inc, hdc 1. Last repeat will end with red hdc inc.  (39)

7:  *Hdc, working white stitches into white stitch tops and red stitches into red st tops.  (39)

8:  In this round only, work color changes in the last yo of previous stitch. *Hdc, working white stitches into white stitch tops and red stitches into red st tops, to last stitch. End sc 1.  (39)

9:  With white, sl to join in back loop of first st. *White sl in back loops only.

Sl to join with first st. Tie off. Weave in ends. 

Detailed Instructions 

With white yarn, ch 31.

1:  Working into the bump on the back of each ch, join in a ring, ch 1 (does not count as first st), sc in same sp. Change to red. (Be sure to change colors between stitches.) *With red hdc 2, with white hdc 2.  Mark the end of this and each succeeding round. Do not join rounds. (31)

2:  White hdc 2. *Red hdc 2, white hdc 2. End red hdc 1.  (31)

3:  Red hdc 1, white hdc 2. *Red hdc 2, white hdc 2.  (31)

4:  *Red hdc inc, hdc 1, white hdc 2, red hdc 2, white hdc 2. Last repeat will end with only 1 white hdc instead of 2.  (35)

5:  White hdc 1, red hdc 3, white hdc 2, red hdc 2. *White hdc 2, red hdc 3, white hdc 2, red hdc 2.  (35)

6:  White hdc 2, red hdc 3, white hdc 2, red hdc inc, hdc 1. Last repeat will end with red hdc inc.  (39)

7:  Red hdc 1, white hdc 2. *Red hdc 3, white hdc 2. End red hdc 1.  (39)

8:  In this round only, work color changes in the last yo of previous stitch. Red hdc 2. *White hdc 2, red hdc 3. End white hdc 1, sc 1.  (39)

9:  With white, sl to join in back loop of first st. *White sl in back loops only.

Sl to join with first st. Tie off. Weave in ends.

Enjoy a nice cup of Christmas cheer!