Make a fabric coffee sleeve cozy, a stylish alternative to the cardboard version! This would be a great addition to a coffee shop gift card to make a lovely handmade gift. This step by step coffee cozy tutorial makes it easy to make a reusable coffee sleeve.

Coffee Cozy Tutorial

Giving a cofee gift for a teacher? Add these super cute Teacher Coffee Gift Cards,  Use these free printable Thanks a latte tags to tell a coffee lover how much you appreciate them.

Coffee cup sleeve, coffee collar, java jacket, mug cozy, ……. no matter what you call it this one is not only stylish but eco-friendly. It is perfect for a paper coffee cup filled with hot coffee or other hot beverage!

Coffee Cozy Tutorial Supplies

  • Fabric scraps from up to 12 different fabrics
  • 4.5″x12″ piece of backing fabric
  • 4.5″x12″ piece of fusible fleece
  • 1 coordinating elastic hair tie
  • Small button
  • Coordinating thread
  • sewing machine
  • scissors
  • Free Coffee Cozy Template

Seam Allowance: 1/4″ unless noted

fabric for coffee sleeves
Fabric for Free Coffee Cozy Pattern

How to make a fabric coffee cup cozy

1. Download the coffee sleeve pattern and print a copy of the template, making sure there is no scaling. You can check by measuring the 1″ square. Cut along the dashed line. (If you plan to make more than one, print two, and cut the second along the solid line!)
2. Select your fabrics or scraps and cut twelve 1.5″x4.5″ pieces. Don’t you love this full-color design? It makes such a beautiful coffee cozy pattern.12 pieces cut for the fabric cozy

3. Sew all 12 strips together along the 4.5″ sides. Press seams however you’d like!template placed on patchwork right sides up


4. Using the coffee sleeve template, lay it on top of your patchwork, right sides up. Trace using a water-soluble pen (just in case!). Cut out and set aside.template placed on patchwork right sides up


5. Take your lining fabric and place the template on the wrong side of the fabric. Trace and cut out.

place coffee sleeve template on lining and cut
6. Using a small length of thread, fold your hair elastic and tie a small knot about a 1/3 of the way over, so that you have two uneven loops. This will help hold it in place when you sew together your cozy!Thread knotted on hair elastic with one small and one large loop

7. Take your template and cut off the seam allowance by cutting along the solid line. Use this template to cut out your fusible fleece. Fuse to the wrong side of your patchwork piece.
8. Center your hair elastic along one edge of your patchwork piece, with the large loop on the patchwork. Secure with a few stitches with a 1/8″ seam allowance.hair elastic sewn to the patchwork sleeve


9. Place your front and back pieces right sides together and pin around the edges.pin together the front and back pieces for the coffee cozy


10. Sew around all four edges, backstitching at the start and finish, making sure to leave a 1.5″-2″ opening along the bottom edge for turning. Carefully trim the corners and the excess hair elastic.all four edges of the fabric coffee sleeve sewn together


11. Turn your work inside out, using a turning tool or dull pencil to poke out the corners, and press. Top stitch very close to the edge, making sure to close up the opening.turn fabric pieces for coffee cozy
12. On the side opposite the hair tie, center your button 1.5″ from the short edge. Mark with a pen. Start sewing your button from the front side, so that you end up with your knot finishing under the button. This leaves your backing nice and neat!button centered from the short edge

Those paper cups can get super hot.  Now you can safely handle hot cups and no need for double cupping!

Cute fabric coffee sleeve shown on cup


Voila! You’re finished! You could easily make these with more or less patchwork, or simply, without patchwork! In no time at all, you can make a stack of custom coffee sleeves! Hello, handmade gifts!

fabric cozy

Tutorial by Jeni from In ColorOrder! She loves to sew and hopes to give lots of handmade gifts this holiday season! 🙂

If you would prefer to crochet a DIY coffee cozy here are a couple of free crochet patterns:

For more sewing projects to gift this season, check out these homemade gifts to sew.

I would love to keep you fully stocked with creative ideas, yummy recipes, fun crafts, and loads of free printables. Subscribe to Skip to my Lou to get new ideas delivered to your inbox. Follow me on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram for all my latest updates.


About Cindy Hopper

Learn More

you may also like

Comments

  1. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just finished making a couple of these to accompany coffee shop gift cards for birthday presents. They were easy and fun to make and turned out so cute!

  2. Real cute! Would like to make a couple. Pattern says to ask permission to copy. If I share this with anyone, I would tell them it’s your pattern. You can email me! Thanks….Diane

  3. I love this! I already made one, may make many more.
    I would also like to feature a link to this tutorial in a penny pinching blog post and I am working on. It is for a guest post on another blog.
    LOVE IT!

  4. These are so cute and I am making them for all of my sisters for Christmas. I have 8 sisters so I have lots of work to do! Thanks for the great instructions.

  5. What a magnificent ideat! You are good! A great business idea is born….you should consider it. Thank you so much for the tutorials!

  6. Not sure how often i get to compliment what you share here.
    Have been a follower of your blog for long. I would love to say that i enjoy seeing all the posts, all the ideas and crafts shared here. They are very inspiring and so much fun!!
    Cheers to you!!

  7. Mmmmmmmmmmm Coffee !

    Excellent tute, love the colours in your Cozy. I will be using my scraps for this on the weekend

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *