This mug cosy is useful to keep tea hot while it’s brewing in the cup, and the “bite” means that you can drink the tea without getting wool in your mouth.

The cosy is knit from one end. You will be making a garter stitch edging of three stitches at each side, plus two stitches of reverse stocking stitch in the centre of the cosy.

The bite is made by decreasing on one edge of the cosy while keeping the garter stitch following the line of the curved bite.

The ends of the cosy are k1 p1 rib and include a buttonhole at one end.

Thank you to SheThinksSheCan for testing this pattern and to CraftyFlutterby for testing and for all her help with errata. Any remaining errors are purely my own.