Wednesday 25 March 2009

Knitted Java Jacket Pattern

Owlish Java Jacket (the button was made by Sam)
materials

1 paper coffee cup for measurement
needles: US 8 (5.0mm)
yarn: 10 ply (I used Noro Kureyon I hd left over)
1 (owl or other vintage button)
yarn needle
needle and thread


Instructions

Cast on 15 stitches.

1st row: knit

repeat until the piece of knitting wraps around the cup tightly

bind off leaving a tail of yarn 10 in long.

sew the ends together using the tail end of yarn.

Then sew on your button or beads or any other embellishments you wish.

Take it to the coffee shop and slide it on your coffee cup.

Drink copious amounts of coffee/tea.

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Its a quick, simple, and fun project that uses up any oddments of yarn that are hanging around your knitting stash. It can easily led its self to more complicated knitting methods, cables, lace, or even bobbles.

I'm sure there are plenty of other java jacket/coffee cozy patterns out there, crocheted or knit in the round if you have a good search. I'm a leftie and as such I tend to get muddled when reading any sort of pattern, but if I go my own way and make things up for simple items things seem to work out quite well. I do intend to teach myself to crotchet by making various java jackets and simple items.

Java jackets protect your hands from hot or icy drinks, feels pleasing to the touch and is the perfect environmental alternative to cardboard coffee sleeves.The sleeve will stretch to fit most paper coffee cups and is small enough to carry in your purse or pocket. Or can be worn on your wrist to the coffee shop, although M says they should be gold in colour and wear two of them like Wonder Woman. Maybe next time.

* more pictures can be found here from the first time I posted this tutorial/pattern. I started this java jacket awhile ago and kept forgetting about it until the other day when I dug out the owl button that Sam sent to me, its a perfect match I think.

13 comments:

Izabela said...

very nice! thanks for sharing the pattern :)

Zoe said...

WOW I love it, the button really sets it off! Well done

Melissa Antolovic said...

too cute!

Sam Gillespie said...

Love it! :)

Suzanne Vaughan said...

This is fab, the button justfinishes it off!

Craft Matters said...

Love it. Like the choice of colour with the button.

Jules said...

I stumbled across your blog on Twitter when I noticed you were a fellow Derbyshire blogger.

If I could master kniting I would love to give this a go.

Fab blog!

pad_made said...

thank you so much for putting this up - you can see my slightly haphazard attempt here http://padmade.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-little-style-to-starbucks.html

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