Cozy Cozies

On Tuesday I was really down. Living in NYC is expeeeeeensive, and I realized this week that I'm basically broke. To cheer myself up, or course, I decided to knit. Instead of being responsible and working on the manly scarf order (which I will be blogging about soon!), I needed to knit something up that could be completed quickly. At first, I though of making an iPod cozy. Everyone loves an iPod cozy! I picked a graphite acrylic yarn with a lovely sparkle for my cozy.

After about 30 rows, got annoyed, and decided to turn it into a business card-holder instead. I bound off, folded the fabric in half, and seamed the edges together. I though, "good work," and picked up a stack of business cards to see how successful my handiwork was. Of course, the whole thing was really floppy. In fact, it looked awful!

I needed a flap. Great. I picked up the stitches on the bound-off edge and started making a sloping flap. I figured I would sew on a button in the middle of the body, and just make a button hole in the flap. Of course, I don't have buttons lying around my house, so that completely defeated the purpose of whipping something together in one sitting. I had to make a tab-and-loop construction.

When I had about five stitches left in my sloping flap, I made the center bit a little longer by knitting back and forth a few rows, then bound off. For the loop, I picked up four stitches in the middle front of the pouch, then knit a few rows in stockinette. Of course, now I was faced with the problem of making a graft for the non-picked up edge of the loop. For that, I picked up four more stitches on the opposite side from where I started the loop construction with a dpn and did a three-needle bind-off. now I had four stitches sitting at the front of my work.

I was so close to the end, I would not let myself be defeated. Carefully, I released each stitch from the dpn, and pulled it through to the wrong side of my work using a crochet hook. once that was done, i picked up the stitches from the hook using the dpn. Since I only had four stitches to bind off, I cut off a suitable bit of yarn from the ball I was working with, and pulled it through to the WS of the work. Then, I bound off as I normally would. Here's my cell phone/card holder cozy!


Of course, this is available at my Etsy store. As usual, contact me with any concerns or if you would like a custom order. E-mail me at sweet-avocado@hotmail.com for inquiries about knitting lessons.