(for Central Knitters by Ms. McGinley Myers)
You know you are ready to start your first project (this cozy) when:
1. You have knit at least four inches on your swatch (the piece of knitting you learned on)
2. The swatch has no holes (for four inches)
3. The stitch count on the swatch does not dramatically increase or decrease as you knit (for four inches)
Materials: yarn, knitting needles, tapestry needle, scissors, swatch
Step 1: Lay your device (phone, mp3 player, or camera) on your swatch with the longer side of the device parallel to the needle. Figure how many stitches you will need for your cozy by counting the number of stitches between the top and bottom edges of your device. This is the number to cast on (write this number in the line on step 2). You can now remove the swatch from your needles so you can start knitting your cozy.
(I would need to cast on 19 stitches for a cozy to fit my iPod. Yours may be different.)
Step 2: Cast on _____ stitches.
Step 3: Knit every row until the knitted piece can wrap around your device. You can stretch the knitting if you want a tight cozy or leave it unstretched for a loose cozy.
Step 4: Bind off your stitches when your knitted piece is the desired length. Leave a tail at least one foot in length when you cut the working yarn.
Step 5: Fold the cozy in half and sew the side seam and bottom seams using the tails of yarn and a tapestry needle. Weave in the ends of yarn on the wrong side of the cozy (the inside) before snipping off the extra.
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