Creating Knitted Phone Covers

No blog post for ages and then two turn up in a week! Sorry about the long gap. What can I say? Although I am not blogging as regularly as I should I am making something every day. After completing the post on the gadget cover designed by Susanne Frank I decided to show you what else I’ve been making when I was not blogging.

I started working on a phone cover for my daughter quite a few weeks ago. She wanted pink but the shade of pink currently in my stash was not to her taste so she brought the bright pink she wanted. She also bought some black as her other accent colour. At every stage of the design I consulted her to ensure that it was made to her specifications and I took my time. It was he that came up with the idea of knitted flowers for decoration. Together we came up with a really unusual phone cover. The flowers made using an i-cord is an idea I saw somewhere online. I happen to see the beads in a stationers craft corners and could not resist. They make great flower centres don’t they? An i-cord is also used to trim the opening of the phone cover.

Then I made a few more pouches playing around with using rib to break up stocking stitch and then swapping it around. They were alright but not quite right. The pouch is fine but I should make some way to close them.

Although not perfect I showed them to a good friend who was visiting and offered to make one for them. They chose their colours, with black as the main colour. My design and application of colour was left to my own creative devices

As I go through all these design adaptations I learned about weaving in loose ends. In fact I’ve been watching a lot of knitting tutorial videos lately applying my learning to my current and futre projects. I’m even collecting them in a list called YarnWorks. If you want to suggest any good knitting tutorials on video, please do! I’ve decided I’m improving my knitting skills this year. The next phone definitely made a forward step in that direction.

I gave myself a challenge to add the red, gold and green to the black phone cover in a way that would really need a lot of weaving in. I could do simple stripes like I did with the shades of red phone cover but I wanted to try something different and challenging. Strokes of colour through the black is what I aimed to achieve in this design. I had no pattern just worked through in my head until it was completed. I even made the closing mechanism using yarn.

I came up with the idea of using a knitted i-cord as a button today while chilling on my sofa, nursing a head cold. I think I will finish the shades of red phone cover in the same way as I am really pleased with the way it works. And it’s different. I like different! Do you?

Let me know your thoughts and thanks for taking the time to read my bloggage. Now what shall I make next......?