When Life gives you lemons
Make a lemon coffee cup cozy
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Gauge
7 stitches = 2 inches
5 rows = 2 inches
Finished size 4 by 5 inches
Materials:
worsted weight yarn
(look for the 4 on the label)
I used cotton for the lemonLily Sugar'n Cream Cone in yellow
Size 5.00 mm crochet Hook / H
Size 3.5mm crochet Hook / D Hook conversion chart
Scissors
Yarn needle
Stitches:
MC = Magic circle
SC = single crochet; insert your hook into the loop, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through both loops.
HDC = half double crochet; yarn over and insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, (you have 3 loops on your hook- like a double crochet) yarn over and pull through all 3 at once.
DC = Double crochet: yarn over and insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through the first 2 loops, yarn over and pull through the last 2 loops
Picot: chain two at the top of the previous stitch and then ss into the top of the stitch
ss = slip stitch; insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull through the stitch and the loop all at once.
Main cup sleeve
With 5.00mm hook
Chain 27
Join to the start (make sure it isn’t twisted)
Round 1: Sc around (26) ss into the beginning
Round 2: HDC around (26)
Round 3: HDC around (26)
Round 4: HDC around (26)
Round 5: HDC around (26)
Round 6: HDC around (26)
Round 7: HDC around (26)
Round 8: HDC around (26)
Round 9: HDC around (26)
Round 10: HDC around (26)
Lemon applique
Stitches are separated with commas,
With 3.5 mm crochet hook
Mc
Round 1: 10 hdc in mc
Round 2: 2 hdc in each stitch around (20)
Round 3: 1 hdc, 2hdc, repeat pattern
Round 4: ss into first 5stitches, sc, sc x 2, hdc, dc, tc picot trc (all in one stitch) dc x 2, hdc, sc x2, sc, ss in the next 6 stitches
mc
sc, hdc, dc, picot, dc, hdc, sc and then pull the magic circle tight and tie off.
Tie off
Leave a long tail-
Sew the leaf on to the lemon
Sew the lemon onto the cup sleeve/cosy
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