Best Dressed Mug DIY: Make No-Sew Warm Wraps for Hot Drinks

A Best Dressed Mug DIY.
Make our warm wraps to keep your hot drinks hot.
Because sweater weather applies to cups, too.

 

Just admit it.

Your coffee doesn’t taste right unless it’s in your favorite pottery mug.

In fact, your whole day just might be ruined if said mug is in the dishwasher from the night before,

and SOMEONE forgot to run the clean cycle.

So, these cooler days, you’re making sure that mug is clean,

and even though it does the best job of all the mugs in the house of keeping your coffee hot,

it just doesn’t stay hot quite long enough.

Ahhh. Mug Warmers to the rescue.

(You know, there are people who wrap their dogs and cats in cheesy knitted outfits that make them look like the granny in Little Red Riding Hood. Please don’t put mug wrappers in that category. Our dressed up mugs might be knit, but they’re swanky.)

 

 

Best Dressed Mug DIY

What you need:

1. A cozy sweater from last year, or a knitted throw that, oops, has a coffee stain on one corner.
2. Felt: a square from the craft section or by the yard in the fabric section.
3. The pattern you download by becoming a GIFTee, you know, join our email list. This is our way to keep the web bots from filling out our forms. And it gives you all our free stuff. The form is at the bottom of the page.
4. Scissors, tacky or hot glue, hair tie, trim or ribbon, large button(s).

 

 

How to make a mug wrap:

1. Cut out your downloaded and printed pattern to the estimated size for your favorite mug.
2. Cut one mug wrap from the knit, and one from the felt.
3. Trim 1/4″ off all around the felt piece, so it’s smaller than the knit piece.
4. Turn the knit edges to the back as you glue it to the felt backing.
5. Sew buttons, trim or ribbon on to form a loop that goes through the mug handle, keeping the mug warmer snug around your mug. 🙂
6. Fill your cup with hot coffee and sip. And browse our web stories…

 

 

The Pendleton Check wrap is a long “scarf” cut folded in half the long way. Then the folded edge is brought through the mug handle and overlapped. Then held closed with a big kilt pin. So simple, yet so effective!

 

More tips for keeping mugs hot longer:

 

1. While the coffee is dripping/brewing/keurigging, put water in the mug and microwave on high 1 minute. Then pour the hot water out and add fresh coffee.
2. Place the mug(s) in a warm oven for 10 minutes. Beware, cos this warms the handles, too! Ask me how I know.
3. While the French press is doing it’s magic, Keurig a cup full of hot water, which you’ll dump when the coffee is done.

 

 

Do you use a mug wrap?
We’d love to see what you’ll make.