For home decor ideas, you really can’t go wrong with some easy crochet jar covers. They liven up any room and give a modern look!
Design Story and Inspiration for These Easy Jar Covers
I’ve been exploring ways to use knitting and crochet to save money around the house during this time of higher prices at the store and the gas pump. So I decided to experiment with a mason jar cozy, which turned into several!
A crochet mason jar cozy (or even a jam jar cozy!) can be used for so many things. You can use a jar cover for tea light candle holders, a vase to hold flowers, you can cover a large mason jar and make it a centerpiece at your table, use a medium sized one for a pencil or crochet hook holder, and many other uses.
When we have guests over, I love to use a mason jar to hold the disposable silverware and keep it together and out of the way, but I never used a crochet mason jar cozy to cover it up until now!
Yarn Options for This Free Crochet Pattern
I like to use cotton yarn for a mason jar cover, but you can really use any yarn you wish. I used DK weight yarn for this project, which is a category #3 yarn on the Craft Yarn Council Weight System, but using the customizations listed below you should be able to make a jar cover out of almost any weight yarn (I wouldn’t go too bulky with these or they might not sit straight).
So feel free to play around with the yarn and use up scraps! This would be a totally fun project to use up scrap yarn, especially in lots of colors.
The yarn I chose comes in a multicolor cake and I deconstructed it by color with my yarn winder to make it easier to get the exact colors I wanted in this free pattern.
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Crochet Jar Covers Pattern Details
The free pattern below contains two different sized covers to fit a pint jar and an 8-ounce typical jar that you would use for canning. These are the regular mouth jars, not wide mouth.
After these free pattern variations, you will see instructions for how to adjust the pattern to make any size jar cover you like. You can make the jar cozy with an open filet pattern in the middle, or you can just continue in double crochet for the entire body of the crochet pattern if you don’t want to be able to see inside the jar.
For a tea light candle holder or even a vase I would do the openwork mason jar cover, but if I was using it as a crochet hook holder or centerpiece I would work a closed stitch.
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Crochet Jar Covers
What You’ll Need
Yarn: Yarn Bee Sugarwheel Cotton in Paris Mornings (DK Weight #3)
Crochet Hook: US Size G (4.00mm) **Please check your mm as this can vary for this size hook
Notions: Yarn needle, scissors
Gauge: 16 sts and 10 rows = 4″ (10cm) in dc
Finished Size: Fits a standard pint (medium) or 8-ounce (small) glass jar
Stitch AbbreviationsChain (ch)Slip Stitch (sl st)Round (rnd)Single Crochet Stitch (sc)Double Crochet Stitch (dc)
Back Loop Only (blo): work stitch only in the back loop of the stitch in the row below.
Mason Jar Cozy Notes
Ch 3 at beginning of round counts as dc.
Ch 4 at beginning of round counts as dc, ch 1.
Join each round with a slip st unless otherwise noted.
If you are new to crochet or have any trouble identifying the first stitch in a round (or the third chain of a ch-4), then please use a stitch marker to mark these stitches.
Easy Crochet Mason Jar Cover Pattern (Medium)
Base
With darker gray, make magic ring.
Rnd 1: Ch 3, 7 dc in ring – 8 sts.
Rnd 2: Ch 3, dc in same st, 2 dc in each st around – 16 sts.
Rnd 3: Ch 3, 2 dc in next st, *dc, 2 dc in next st; repeat from * around – 24 sts.
Rnd 4: Ch 3, dc in next st, 2 dc in next st, *dc 2, 2 dc in next st; repeat from * around – 32 sts.
Rnd 5: Ch 3, dc in next 2 sts, 2 dc in next st, *dc 3, 2 dc in next st; repeat from * around – 40 sts.
Body
Rnd 1: Ch 3, dc blo in each st from previous round – 40 sts.
Rnds 2-3: Ch 3, dc in each dc – 40 sts.
Change color to cream.
Rnd 4: Ch 4, *skip dc, dc in next dc, ch 1; repeat from * to last chain, join with sl st to 3rd ch of beginning chain.
Rnds 5-9: Ch 4, *skip ch-1, dc in next dc, ch 1; repeat from * around, join with sl st to 3rd ch of beginning chain.
Change color to light gray.
Rnd 10: Ch 3, dc in each dc and ch sp around – 40 sts.
Fasten off.
Weave in ends.
Size Small Jar Cover
Base
With darker gray, make magic ring.
Rnd 1: Ch 3, 7 dc in ring – 8 sts.
Rnd 2: Ch 3, dc in same st, 2 dc in each st around – 16 sts.
Rnd 3: Ch 3, 2 dc in next st, *dc, 2 dc in next st; repeat from * around – 24 sts.
Body
Rnd 1: Ch 3, dc blo in each st from previous round – 24 sts.
Change color to cream.
Rnd 2: Ch 4, *skip dc, dc in next dc, ch 1; repeat from * to last chain, join with sl st to 3rd ch of beginning chain.
Rnds 5-9: Ch 4, *skip ch-1, dc in next dc, ch 1; repeat from * around, join with sl st to 3rd ch of beginning chain.
Change color to light gray.
Rnd 10: Ch 3, dc in each dc and ch sp around – 24 sts.
Fasten off.
Weave in ends.
Crochet Tutorial for Customizing the Size of Your Crochet Mason Jar Cover
Step One: Begin with a magic ring and 8 dc for your first round. Continue increasing as given in pattern until your circle is the same size as the bottom of your jar, or slightly smaller (it will stretch a bit).
Step Two: Once you have reached the size of the bottom of the jar, double crochet in the back loop only in each stitch, then work as many rounds of dc as you want before switching to the filet crochet lace pattern (or continue in dc for the entire cover).
Step Three: Once you have the desired height of solid dc sts, change to the filet crochet pattern and work this until you are almost at the top of your jar.
Step Four: Change back to dc for at least one round and you’re done!
Designer’s Tip: Periodically try it on your jar. If it’s too tight (like mine in the video!), and you know that working another round of dc for the base would make it too big, just try going up one hook size. Go down a hook size if you’re finding it to be too large.
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I hope you’ve enjoyed this free crochet pattern as much as I enjoyed designing it! I’m covering all the jars in this house now. A crochet mason jar cozy might be just the thing you need to take your decor to a new level.
So, what are you waiting for? Grab some leftover yarn and give a crochet jar cover a try!
