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Weekly DIY Roundup: Coffee Sleeves and Mug Cozies!
I am a coffee drinker year round, but especially in the winter of course I like my coffee to stay hot, so mug cozies and cup sleeves are the way to go! I love to make sleeves from recycled felted sweaters, and you can easily adapt any of these designs to make them with felted wool, just by cutting the shape out and stitching as needed. Here is a super simple sleeve pattern by The Caffeinated Crafter:

Freakapotimus has another simple pattern for a coffee cup sleeve:

And a third basic sleeve pattern, this one made with gorgeous Noro yarn, can be found on another knitting blog:

Moving on to mug cozies, danido crafty designed a great adjustable one, so it'll fit all of your assorted mugs!

I think this design by mk carroll is beautiful, and it's made to fit either a mug or a french press:

This one by My Fair Katie has a different way of tying onto the mug, with i-cords:

Chronicle Books offers an excerpt on their website from their Winter Knits Kit, including the pattern for this mug cozy:

This mug cozy by Pippi Knits Stockings is designed to also function as a hand warmer!

Hooks and Knives wrote up a super simple crochet pattern for a coffee sleeve:

And yarnattacks on instructables shows us how to crochet these great mug cozies that also act as coasters!

Idle Hands has a very detailed how-to for this sewn coffee sleeve with a pocket:

Poppy tutorials shows us how to sew a velcro coffee sleeve that can double as a cuff!

Mary Ray on Craftstylish explains how to use a twin needle to make this super cool sleeve, I love it!

Also on Craftstylish, Shannon Dennis shows us how to make this sleeve from an old sweater:

And I'll show you one of mine, made with a felted sweater, with some embroidered embellishments:

So now you can keep your coffee (or tea!) hot and prevent your hands from burning! Comment with any of your favorite patterns or tutorials that I missed!
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