Bottle Holder – Free Knitting Pattern

Water bottle holders are incredibly handy – they are great for concerts and festivals, hikes and walks, or day trips like the zoo or aquarium. Parents, make one of these for each of your children so they can carry thier own water bottle, instead of you carrying around for them in your purse or bag. Make it in a fun color and they might even be excited to carry it on thier own!

After designing quite a few crochet patterns for water bottle holders, I really wanted to design a knitting pattern for one.
At first I was going to use DPN’s and knit in the round…it worked, but it was very clumsy. To make this pattern more accessible I decided to design it to not need DPN’s. Straight or circular needles will do. Of course, that means you will need to seam your bottle holder together at the end (also not my favorite thing to do), but at least you don’t have to fiddle with 4 DPN’s each with 2 stitches on them to start!

Bottle Holder – Free Knitting Pattern

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Supplies:

Size 8 Knitting Needles (Circular or straight)

Approximately 100 yards worsted weight yarn (preferably cotton)

Tapestry Needle (for seaming and weaving in ends)

Gauge and Sizing:

2” = 9 st and 14 rows in stockinette
Measures approximately 7” tall by 4” across when laid flat

Notes:

Holder is worked bottom up, back and forth in rows, then seamed together.

Abbreviations:
BO – Bind Off
CO – Cast on
K – Knit
Kfb – Knit front and back
K2tog – Knit two together
P – Purl
Rep – Repeat
St – Stitch

Let’s Begin!

Leaving long tail (for seaming later)
CO 6

1. K across

2. K1, kfb until 1 st remains, k1 (10 st)

3. K across (10 st)

4. K1, kfb until 1 st remains, k1 (18 st)

5. K across

6. K1, (k1, kfb) until 1 st remains, k1 (26 st)

7. K across

8. K1, (k2, kfb) until 1 st remains, k1 (34 st)

9. K across

10. K1, (k3, kfb) until 1 st remains, k1 (42 st)

11. K across (RS)

12. P across (WS)

13. K across (RS)

Rep rows 12 and 13 until 5-1/2” – 6” from bottom

K for 4 rows
Bind off until 10 st remain
(1 on B.O. needle, 9 on other needle)

Strap:
1. K7, k2tog (9 st)

2. K7, k2tog (8 st)

3. K across (8 st)

Rep row 3 until strap measures 46” (you may want longer or shorter depending on how tall you are, and consider the fabric will stretch a little)
Bind off

After seaming bottom and sides, fold bottle holder flat with strap in center. Match strap to other side of holder and whipstitch together (make sure it’s not twisted).

Seaming:
Weave tail through stitches of row 1 and close into circle

Seam bottom and sides together w/ mattress st

Weave in tails