Whether you're hosting Thanksgiving or dining at a friend or family member's home, the table won't be complete without the Fall Feast Wine Cozy. This gorgeous, Fair Isle knit wine bottle cozy pattern makes the perfect host or hostess gift as well as a lovely decor piece for your own spread. Perfect for the intermediate knitter, the Fall Feast Wine Cozy is the perfect way to show your appreciation, love, and great sense of style this Thanksgiving.
Knitting Needle Size6 or 4 mm, 7 or 4.5 mm, Double-Pointed Knitting Needles (DPNs)
Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)
Materials:
- Patons® Classic Wool Worsted™ (3.5 oz/100 g; 200 yds/192 m)
- Main Color (MC) Heath Heather (77215) 1 ball
- Contrast A Burgundy (00208) 1 ball
- Contrast B Aran (00202) 1 ball
- Set of four size U.S. 6 (4 mm) and U.S. 7 (4.5 mm) double-pointed knitting needles or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stitch marker
GAUGE
20 sts and 26 rows = 4" [10 cm] in stocking stitch with larger needles.
MEASUREMENTS
To fit average 25 oz (750 ml) wine bottle.
ABBREVIATIONS
Approx = approximately
Beg = beginning
Dec = decrease(ing)
Inc = Increase(ing)
K = knit
P = purl
rep = repeat
rnd(s) = round(s)
st(s) = stitch(es)
WS = wrong side
INSTRUCTIONS
With smaller set of needles and MC, cast on 52 sts. Divide sts onto 3 needles. Join in rnd, placing marker on first st.
1st rnd: *K2. P2. Rep from * around. Rep last rnd of (K2. P2) ribbing until work from beg measures 1" [2.5 cm].
Change to larger set of needles.
Next rnd: Knit, inc 2 sts evenly around. 54 sts.
Note: When working from chart, carry colors not in use loosely across WS of work, but never over more than 5 sts. When they must pass over more than 5 sts, weave them over and under center point of sts they pass over. The colors are never twisted around one another.
Proceed in Chart, reading rows from right to left, noting 6-st rep will be worked 9 times, until 23 rows of Chart have been completed. Break A and B.
With MC only, knit even in rnds until work from beg measures 6" [15 cm].
Next rnd: Knit, dec 2 sts evenly around. 52 sts.
Change to smaller set of needles.
Work in (K2. P2) ribbing for 2" [5 cm].
Cast off in ribbing.