Kosi: Coral & Turquoise

One of my crafty friends back home was going on about how she was going to knit a coffee cozy so she didn't have to keep making use and consequently discarding the one-time-use cardboard ones available in coffee shops.  I figured it would be easy enough to crochet one, so I did.

I pulled two balls from my scraps, a thicker turquoise and a thinner coral and went to work with an H-8/5.00mm hook.  Ch 40 with the coral, sl st into the first ch.  Switched to the turquoise and went around with hdc... where I realized it was going to be too big.  Switched to coral and sc around, reducing 4 times for a total of 36 st.  Continued the color pattern until there were 5 layers of coral and 4 layers of turquoise and then finished.

Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking which side I was going to want out and used a method of reducing that uses the lower part of the combined stitches, which is invisible from one side but very visible on the other (see second coral layer from the bottom in the photo).  And of course that other, visible side is the one I decided I wanted out.  Such is life.

That's it.  Real quick little piece.  Didn't take more than a half hour.

More pictures to follow.  Friends have already been requesting coffee cozies of their own.  Hooray for reducing waste, even if it's little things like crocheted coffee cozies.

Birthday purple
and red cozy.