Whether you're new to sewing or a seasoned pro, everyone loves an easy project that you can use over and over... enter these darling coffee sleeves! Their cuteness will definitely attract attention, plus they're so easy to make, you can have a different one for every day of the week! Even better, these serve as a great gift idea for the warm beverage lover in your life!
Materials needed:
Step 1
Start by making a pattern for your coffee sleeve. Find an old coffee sleeve and rip it open. Place it down on your fabric and trace around it, making the trace larger by about 3/4" on the top and bottom, and 1" on each side. These additions are made to account for seam allowance and overlapping once you begin sewing.
Step 2
Using the Fiskars® rotary cutter, follow the lines you drew onto your fabric from the step above and cut out one side of your coffee sleeve. To protect your work surface, make sure you cut on top of a Fiskars® cutting mat.
Step 3
Next, trace the piece of fabric you just cut out on to your second color of fabric. This will leave you with two identical pieces of fabric that will be sewn together to create your reversible coffee cup sleeve.
Step 4
Fabric stabilizer will add stiffness to the sleeve, as well as heat protection for your hand. I have found that the iron-on varieties work best. Trace and cut your fabric piece again over the fabric stabilizer, just like you did in step 3, but this time go back with your Fiskars® scissors and trim it down to about 1/2" inside the sleeve.
Then, iron the fabric stabilizer that has been cut to size onto the wrong side of one of your pieces of fabric. Because the fabric stabilizer is so thick, we'll want to avoid sewing on it for folding purposes.
Step 5
Pin both outwardly facing sides of the fabric together. Before you close one end completely, add a little folded piece of thin elastic cord inside. Place the loop facing inside and the free ends facing out. Adhere the free ends with a little tape to hold in place and finish pinning.
Step 6
Sew around the entire rectangle of fabric, using a 3/8" seam allowance. Reinforce the stitch over the elastic cord and at the corners. Don't sew it completely closed. Instead, leave about two inches open on the end that doesn't have the elastic cord attached. Snip any excess string using the super sharp Fiskars® thread snips.
Step 7
Trim the edges by about 1/4" to help make folding easier and cleaner, being careful not to nick the seams. Then, notch each edge with the Fiskars® micro-tip scissors, as this also helps when turning the sleeves out.
Step 8
Turn your coffee sleeve right side out and use a pen to push in the corners. This will help sharpen the look and create crisp corners. You should still have one free edge open, but don't worry about that – we'll sew it closed soon.
Step 9
Iron your new coffee sleeve and fold the raw edges of the open seam inside the sleeve, then iron again to help hold them in place inside the sleeve.
Step 10
Add a finishing stitch along the entire outside of the sleeve, closing up the hole you just ironed. Again, snip any excess string. For this step, I think it's fun to use a contrasting color of thread so you actually see the stitch, but you can certainly choose a matching thread to hide the stitching.
Step 11
Adding the button is the final step. Wrap your sleeve around a coffee cup to measure and ensure it fits. Pull the elastic cord out a bit to see where the button should be, then mark the spot with a pen. Sew a button on top of the marked spot. Now that your sleeve is ready to be put to good use, pour yourself a hot beverage and enjoy!
Canada
United States 
Australia
New Zealand
Belgium 
Bulgaria
Czech
Denmark
Estonia
Finland 
France
Germany 
Greece (Crea)
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom