I've found when teaching classes to beginning knitters, and only being allowed two and a half hours for a class, that small projects are best. Not all of my students have electronic devices that they want to wrap in wool or acrylics, but almost everyone likes coffee (or if you're like me, hot cocoa). So I came up with two very simple patterns that any beginning knitter should be able to manage.
The first (the cup in the middle) is the simplest. It's just garter stitch with no increasing or decreasing, using the elasticity or the garter stitch to shape itself on the cup.
With worsted weight yarn and size 8 needles, cast on 12 stitches
Knit every row until fabric reaches about 7 and 1/2 inches
Bind off and sew the short sides together
The second (the cups on the sides) is knit from the top down and has only two rows with k2tog decreases.
With worsted weight yarn and size 8 needles, cast on 36 stitches
Knit every row until fabric reaches about 1 and 1/2
Reduce 4 stitches evenly across the next row (k2tog)
Knit until fabric reaches about 2 inches
Reduce 4 stitches evenly across the next row (k2tog)
Knit until fabric reaches 3 inches
Bind off and sew short sides together.
I don't worry much about gauge on these (unless the student is a very tight knitter) as these stretch pretty well.
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