Ribbed Water Bottle Cozy
Make a crochet water bottle cozy and help keep the cold in your drink, not on your hands. Sample water bottle cozy has an 8.5" circumference. However, you can easily adjust it to fit your water bottle once you've established the stitch pattern.
Skill Level: Easy
Materials
Yarn:
Lily Sugar’n Cream [100% cotton; 120 yards; 70.9 grams; worsted weight]
Main Color: 1 skein Stonewash, color #01118
Coordinating Color (optional): 1 skein Soft Ecru, color #01004
To make a yarn substitution you will need approximately 51 yards (30 grams) in a worsted weight for one water bottle cozy.
Crochet Hook:
US G/4.5mm crochet hook
Adjust hook sizes as necessary to achieve gauge listed below.
Extras:
Tapestry needle
Gauge:
8 double crochet = 2 inches
Finished Measurements:
6 x 8.5” (when measured flat before seaming)
Crochet Abbreviations Used in This Pattern
* = a repeat in the pattern
bp = back post
ch = chain
dc = double crochet
fp = front post
rep = repeat
sc = single crochet
sk = skip
st(s) = stitch(es)
Water Bottle Cozy Pattern
With mc yarn, ch 26 sts loosely.
Foundation Row: Dc in 4th ch from hook, dc in each ch to end -- 23 dc + turning ch.
Row 1: Ch 3 (counts as 1st dc), sk first dc, fp dc around next 22 sts, dc in turning ch of previous row -- 24 sts.
Row 2: Ch 3 (counts as 1st dc), sk first dc, bp dc around next 22 sts, dc in turning ch of previous row -- 24 sts.
*Rep Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures 8.5” from beginning, or desired length (circumference of your water bottle).
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Thread tapestry needle with mc yarn. Sew together short edges (foundation ch and last row) to make a tube.
Finishing
With cc, work sc sts around each end of the tube. Use the formula of approximately 2 sts per side of dc st, or space sc as you see fit.
Using cc yarn, make a 20” ch.
Cut yarn and fasten off ch.
Weave ch through spaces created by the dc sts to form a drawstring around top edge of cozy.
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