Give more "WOW" this year.

You know the "wow face"... It's that reaction someone has when you give them a gift that's both totally awesome and completely unexpected.
In my experience, giving something handmade that people will actually use always makes for a pretty awesome gift. This year, I'm attempting to get as many wow faces as possible by giving these takeout coffee cozies. I'm making them from a simple basic pattern that can be altered to meet any design specification and in many different yarns in many different colors. But this one, in a color I'm calling "Pumpkin Latte", is one of my favorites. It's knit in an all cotton Misti Alpaca fingering weight yarn that I picked up at Calla Lily. I picked it so I could get the stitches tight and have it look like a sock, plus this yarn is DELICIOUSLY soft so no one could resist using it.
Wow faces, here I come.

Here's the skinny on how it's made:

CO 44sts on 3 size 4 DPNs (I then knit the first stitch then slip it back onto the first needle to lock it in.

K1P1 rpt for rows 1-6
For row 7:
K1, K1F&B, K40sts, K1F&B, K1
Knit rows 8-14
For row 15:
K1, K1F&B, K42sts, K1F&B, K1
Knit rows 16-22
For row 23:
K1, K1F&B, K44sts, K1F&B, K1
K1P1 for rows 24-30
Cast off.

There you have it, simple, huh? In fact, you're only 60 minutes away from a gift that is sure to get you a "wow face". Who wouldn't want that?

By: Brett T. Coalmer
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See what else I'm doing/making/breaking at http://www.thebrettt.tk