Cabled Cell Phone / Eyeglass Covers, PDF pattern

About The Design

Whether you call it an iCozy, iSleeve, iSock, or iCover, this pattern is the 5th in a series of knit covers for your cell phone or eyeglasses. Cell phones are ubiquitous, so, with a small investment of time, you can knit yourself, your family, and your friends a colorful i-cover!

The covers only weigh about an ounce, so they make good use of all those tiny balls of stash yarns we can’t bear to get rid of, or the discontinued yarns or colors we can’t get more of!

This pattern offers 3 options: a simple offset baby cable, a twisted cable with ribbing, and a twisted cable with a 5-stitch centered ribbed cable. Sampled in heavy worsted and chunky weight yarns.

The pattern has text and charted directions.

Materials

Sample 1 – offset baby cables, in natural: Helvetia Shepherds 2-ply, 100% wool, 200 yds. / 4 oz.: .78 oz. / 40 yds. Natural

Sample 2 – twisted cable with rib, in natural: Helvetia Shepherds 2-ply: .95 oz. / 48 yds. Natural

Sample 3 – twisted cable with rib & strap, in plum: Cascade Yarns ReBound, 70% polyester / 30% cotton (100% post-consumer recycled), 164 yds. / 100 gr.: 1.4 oz. / 66 yds. #05 Black Plum

Sample 4 – twisted & 5-st center cables, in green: Cascade Yarns 128 Tweed, 90% wool / 10% Donegal, 128 yds. / 100 gr.: 1.17 oz. / 45 yds. #7601 Green Tweed

Sample 5 – twisted & 5-st center cables, in tan: 128 Tweed: 1.17 oz. / 45 yds. #7625 Tan Tweed

US size 6 (4 mm) dpns, set of 5

Tapestry ndl

2 cable ndls (optional)

Stitch marker or waste yarn

1” diameter button for each cover

Sewing ndl and thread

Gauge

Samples 1-3: 20 sts and 28 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in St st with size 6 ndls, or size to give gauge.

Samples 4 and 5: 18 sts and 26 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in St st with size 6 ndls, or size to give gauge.

To save time, take time to check gauge.

Substitute Yarn Weight

Samples 1-3: heavy worsted

Samples 4 and 5: chunky

Happy Knitting!

Dawn