I love seeing a beautiful dragonfly. They hover like small helocopters and the sun shines beautifully off of their bodies. I wanted to add a dragonfly to a coffee cup cozy for a fun little change of pace. When I started off, i just had a single line of single crochet for the body. The body of my dragonfly evolved though as I wanted to give him a bit of a detail. Not too much that he is hard to make. You can make it the way i did or with just a chain of 21 and one row of single crochet. He will still look like a dragonfly. I have noticed that dragonflies are beautiful with blues and greens. So, my pattern uses two shades of blue but you can pick green or whatever other colors that you want for the dragonfly body.
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Dragonfly Coffee Cup Cozy
Materials
- worsted weight yarn
- (look for the 4 on the label)
- I used red heart super saver for the cup cozy and i love this cotton yarn for the dragonfly
- Size 5.00mm Hook / H
- Size 4.00mm hook/
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
Gauge
- 7 stitches = 2 inches
- 5 rows = 2 inches
- Finished size 4 by 5 inches
Stitches:
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
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)
Round 11: HDC around (26)
Round 12: HDC around (26)
Dragonfly applique
With size 4.00mm hook
Insect Body
Ch 21
hdc x 2 in 2nd stitch(insect head),ss in the next stitch, sc in the next 10, ss in the last 8 stitches.
Ss into the opposite side of the dragonfly body, attach a lighter color yarn, ss into the first 8 stitches, sc in the next 10 stitches, ss, sc x 2 in the next one and sc in the next 2 stitches (around the head) weave the end into the dragonfly.
2 small wings
Ch 9, dc in the 2nd chain from the hook (for a rounded look to the wing), dc in the next 4, hdc in the last 3 stitches
2 longer wings
Ch 13
Dc x 2 in the 2nd chain from the hook, dc in the next 6, hdc in last 5
Put a small wing next to a longer wing and sew the two side by side in the first 3 stitches
Sew the 2 sets of wings together and weave in the rest of the ends, leave one tail to sew it to the cup cozy
Sew the dragonfly onto the cup sleeve/cozy
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