This is the prettiest part of my stash. All the odds and ends off various balls of yarn are quarantined here, in a woolly rainbow, until I can find a suitable purpose for them.
The bedrooms in this house have beautiful brass door knobs that are too slippery to operate when you’ve just applied a blob of hand-cream. To solve this problem, I have created…the door knob cozy. They provide a little bit of extra friction for turning the door knob with freshly moisturised hands.
Here’s something I finished a little while ago! It’s a wine bottle cozy, for gifting that extra special bottle of vino! Not too happy with how the picture turned out, but very happy with how the cozy itself turned out. Inspired by this pattern on Ravelry by Tara Mercer.
A pencil case for my pal Vineta. I asked her what colour she wanted, and she basically said I should surprize her. So I picked this nice gray/silver mix. Hopefully she’ll like it.
This is a scarf I finally finished a few days ago. It’ll be a present for one of my friends, I have someone in mind for it already. I’m planning to make a blue one and a pink one in the same way. Actually the pink version is already started. I was looking through my stash of wool and discovered that, I have too many scraps laying around, and it's time to put them to good use.
It’s such a dull lightless day here today, I had a lot of difficulty trying to show the colours of this thing! I fiddled around with the saturation for these photographs, but there is no substitute for a bit of proper sunshine.
Ah hurrah, I’ve finally made one of these! I’ve been trying to make one for some time, but all the patterns I could find were for the bigger ipods. I’m going to try to add a small pocket to the front to put the head phones in, but for now here is the pattern without a pocket.
You will need:
5mm (US 8) (UK 6) double pointed needles
Aran weight yarn
Thread (similar to the colour of the yarn)
Stitch marker
Sewing needle
Darning needle
1cm wide button
The bottom:
Cast on 11 stitches
Knit two rows
Pick up 1 stitch from the edge of the piece, on a new needle
Pick up 11 stitches from the cast on edge, on a new needle
Pick up 1 last stitch from the other edge, on a new needle
24 stitches altogether at this point
Put on a stitch marker
Purl 1 row in the round til you come back to the stitch marker
The main section:
Knit for 3.5 inchs or 9 cms in the round, finishing at the stitch marker, and remove it
Cast off 13 stitches
The flap:
Knit the remaining 11 stitches
Purl one row
Next row, k1, k2tog, k5, k2tog, k1 (9 stitches remain)
Purl one row
Next row, k1, k2tog, k3, k2tog, k1 (7 stitches remain)
Purl one row
Knit the next row, but cast off the central stitch
Next row, p3, yarn over, p3
Knit one row
Cast off
Finishing up:
Sew in the loose ends of yarn
Bend over the flap to find the place you should sew on the button
Sew on the button with thread
Hurrah completion!
KnittingHelp.com has a really good glossary and lots of video tutorials, if some of the short hand properties above don't make sense.
Got sick of biro ink getting all over the inside of my bag and gradually making everything I own grubby, so I finally made a pencil case. It was loosely inspired by this pattern, but I modified it a whole lot. It’s much narrower, longer, has a different number of buttons, and a few other smaller changes.
I think I’ll try to knit an ipod case in a similar way, but with even more adjustments, like maybe a pocket or pouch for the earphones. If I manage this, I’ll record the pattern in case anyone else wants it.
