Moving To Andalusia

My first two Ipodsocks!

I love knitting so much, I’ve actually joined several knitting groups & blogs and I find myself discussing the virtues of different types of yarn. Wow.
There is one thing about knitting that really pisses me off though and that’s the lingo. I just don’t get the abbreviations. Yo? Bo? stst?
Anyway, long live the internet, because, off course, there are on line resources for this!

Bo means Bind off and it even has an instructional video on just that! Here’s the link to KnittingHelp.com

Anyway, I’ve been experimenting with Christmas (and other) presents that I might knit and I am ridiculously satisfied with the results! Both these Ipod socks were knitted on circulars. The bigger one is my own pattern, I thought it might be fun to have a little flap. It needs a button, but I don’t have one, and it’ll take a week or so to get them in the mail, so bear with me!

Flap

Here’s what I did for the Ipod sock with flap:

• You start with one stitch, knit it, add a stitch, knit both,
• add another on the other side of the first stitch,
• knit ‘m all, and so forth, til you have the approx width of your Ipod/mp3player/phone/camera/whatever.
• Knit about 4 more rows, so you get a nice long flap. I knitted it, but on second thoughts maybe st st might have been nicer.
• Then you act like you’re knitting a sock: cast on the number of stitches you have times two (so if you’re up to 12 stitches, cast on another 12), divide over circulars so they are all connected and knit away! For this I did use st st, but you might wanna throw in a couple of cables just for fun.
• Knit til it’s big enough for the appliance of your choice (rather too big than too small!), seem together (I don’t use the Kitchener Stitch any more but something I call my mum’s seem: turn the sock/cozy/whatever inside out and knit the stitches on both needles together. You end up with one needle with stitches, bo, turn the sock/etc the right way out and it’s great!)

Et voila: you’re ready for Christmas!

My next project is to learn how to crochet, I think it might be fun to make the edges on the little flap a little more elaborate, so I’ll get round to that as soon as my crochet needles make it up my Spanish mountain!

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November 17th, 2008 | Tags: Cable knitting, Instructions, Obsessive knitting, Sock | Category: Knitting for dummies | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL