When Life gives you lemons

April 23, 2024

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 lemon

Lily Sugar’n Cream Cone in yellow

I recommend the stiffer cotton for the lemon

and I love this cotton yarn in pistachio for the leaf.

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.

Trc = Tripple crochet; yarn over twice, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over pull through two loops, yarn over pull through two loops, yarn over and pull through the last two loops.

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 (30)

Round 4: ss into first 5 stitches, sc, sc x 2, hdc, dc x 2, trc picot trc (all in one stitch) dc x 2, hdc, sc x 2, sc, ss in the next 6 stitches, sc, sc x 2, hdc, dc x 2, trc picot trc (all in one stitch), dc x 2, hdc, sc x 2, sc, ss in last stitch (40) (i did not count the picot separately in my stitch count- if you count the picot separately then it is 42)

Leaf

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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