It’s mug season and here’s a great winter sewing project for your kitchen or office! This mug cozy pattern makes a fabric mug wrap for your mug to protect your hands from the heat!
Make this DIY mug cozy with your favorite cotton fabrics and a cute button! You can even piece the cozy so it has lots of cute fabrics, making it a great scrapbuster project!
Because of the elastic, this cozy will fit a good range of mug sizes from standard to large.
Mug cozies make a great gift – pair it with a mug or a gift card!
Mug Cozy Materials
This is a great sewing project for beginners! To get started, collect your materials.
- 1/4 yard cotton fabric, or a fat quarter of fabric
- This is a great scrap project! Find bigger scraps or piece together smaller scraps
- 1/8″ – 1/4″ elastic (affiliate), or use string elastic, cut a length about 8″ -adjust depending on your mug size
- Shank button or 2-hole button – 3/4″ or larger
- Quilt batting
- Lightweight fusible interfacing
- Pattern download, see below
This is not a microwave safe project – the mug cozy is designed to be put on a hot mug after heating. So you don’t have to stress about finding microwave safe materials like in the soup bowl cozy tutorial.
Mug Cozy Sewing Pattern
Download the Mug Cozy Sewing Pattern below – this pattern prints out from your home computer. Make sure the print settings say DO NOT SCALE or 100% to get the right size. Check the 1″ box when printing to verify that you have the correct size.
Strip Mug Wrap Instructions
To make a scrappy mug cozy, collect a whole bunch of fabrics and cut them into 1″ strips. Then cut them into pieces 5″ long. You’ll need about 20 strips.
Sew strips together until it is long enough for your mug cozy size. Press the seam allowances to one side.
Interface the panel with lightweight fusible interfacing. Use spray baste to attach a layer of quilt batting to the back.
Quilt the layers together by topstitching over the seam allowances between each stripe.
Then use the pattern piece to cut out 1 main piece with the striped panel.
Instead of a striped panel you can use the pattern piece to cut one piece of fabric for the outside.
Sew a fabric mug cozy
Use a 1/4″ seam allowance.
Start by cutting your fabric and gathering your supplies. Cut 1 lining using the main pattern piece. You’ll also need a button (bigger the better here!), 8″ of 1/8″ elastic and a fabric scrap.
Fold the elastic into a loop and then fold the fabric scrap over the ends. Sew with a narrow stitch length (1.8mm) back and forth a few times. This tab will keep your elastic from slipping out of the mug cozy.
Center the fabric scrap on one short end of the front panel, making sure the fabric is within the 1/4″ seam allowance so it won’t be showing on the outside of the mug cozy. Then place the lining on top of the panel – right sides together. Sew around the mug cozy with 1/4,” leaving an opening on one of the long sides.
Clip corners and trim seam allowance. Turn right sides out and press. Then topstitch around the mug cozy. Sew on a button about 3/4″ from the short edge and you’re done!
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