The Stretchy Coffee Sleeve with Extended Single Crochet Stitch

Over the past few years the extended single crochet stitch (ext sc) has become one of my absolute favorite crochet stitches. I love it when it’s worked in the round, I love it when it’s worked flat. It’s a versatile stitch that lends lots of positive ease to projects and is a very fun stitch to work!

Let's learn how to crochet the Extended Single Stitch and make a Stretchy Coffee Sleeve with it with this photo tutorial.

Materials:

Worsted Weight Yarn / 4
H/8/5.00mm crochet hook
Scrap piece of yarn (3″ – 4″ long)
Scissors
Yarn Needle
Your favorite travel mug to check fit!

Stitch Abbreviations:

ch: chain
st(s): stitch(es)
ext sc: extended single crochet
yo: yarn over
RS: right side
Rnd: round
PM: place marker (scrap piece of yarn)

Special Stitch:

Extended Single Crochet (ext sc): Insert your hook into specified st, yo, pull up a loop, yo, pull thru 1 loop, yo, pull thru remaining loops on hook.

Instructions:

Row 1 (RS): Ch 37, working into the back hump of the foundation chain, ext sc into 2nd ch from hook, ext sc into each ch across. Do Not Join. (36 sts)

*Note: You will not join at the end of Row 1. Instead, you will begin working in a continuous round by working the 1st stitch of Rnd 2 into the 1st stitch of Row 1.

Rnd 2: Ext sc in each st around. PM after last st of Rnd 2 to mark the end of the rnd before moving on to Rnd 3.

Rnds 3 – 10: Ext sc in each st around. Move marker up as you complete each rnd by removing it and placing it after the last st of the rnd just completed.

Special Join: At the end of Rnd 10, work the following special join, pull up on the loop on your hook to increase it, remove your hook, insert your hook from back to front into the 1st st of Rnd 10, place loop of yarn back on hook, pull on working yarn to tighten the loop back on your hook, pull yarn thru to the inside of your coffee sleeve.

Fasten off. Weave in ends.

Finishing

Using your yarn needle, sew the gap closed between the first and last stitches of Row 1. Weave in ends.