Master your Herringbone stitch - Herringbone cup cozy tutorial and Claire headband

I started preparing for upcoming Holidays and thinking of gifts a cup cozy popped up in my mind first! I’ve made a lot of those last winter and I received a very warm response indeed.

This cup cozy will keep your cup of tea or coffee nice and warm and protect your hands. This also make a great gift! It’s fun and very easy to make. You can master your Herringbone stitch and use your stashes. Make it unicolour or change colour every 2 rows or add contrasting colour edging. Just use your imagination!

Let me introduce you another new design that use Herringbone stitch!

It’s Claire headband! It’s twisted headband with lovely herringbone texture! And why I named it after Claire? Because it’s beautiful and modern as Claire from E’Claire Makery. Actually I designed it especially for E’Claire Makery Winter Fashion Blog Hop! It’s a blog hop where 27 designers (yes, 27) are giving away FREE downloads of their patterns for 24 hours each! To learn more about this event please read here!

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https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/herringbone-cup-cozy

Get Claire Headband PDF on Ravelry ! It’s FREE for 24 hours only with code HCC!

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/claire-headband

HOW TO MAKE THE HERRINGBONE CUP COZY

SKILL LEVEL: 2, Easy

Materials and notions:

Small amount of Cat 4: Worsted weight yarn (I used Lion Brand, Wool Ease )

Crochet hook H(5.0mm)

2 buttons, yarn needle, scissors

STITCHES

ch(s) – chain(es), sl st – slip stitch, sc – single crochet.
Special stitch

HbDc – herringbone double crochet – yarn over, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over and draw through the stitch and first loop on hook (2 loops on hook), yarn over and pull through only one loop on hook (2 loops on hook), yarn over and pull through both loops on the hook.

BegDc – https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNMAQghwke/

NOTES

Pattern is written in US crochet terms.

Pattern is worked sideways.

Gauge is not critical for this project.

INSTRUCTIONS

Row 1 Make an initial ch as long as high your cup is, leaving a space for the lips to drink from the cup. BegDc, HbDc in each ch across to last one, dc in last ch, turn.