Stitch n bitch

This morning the newly convened Xero Stitch n Bitch group (so far just Mrs H and me) saw the completion of the rather complex knitted iPad cover that Mrs H had enlisted my help on. We’ve had a few lunchtime sessions in the back meeting room at Xero.

Since starting a couple of weeks ago I’ve helped decipher a rather abbreviated pattern downloaded from the internet to knit a seamless ‘pocket’ with 2 cable needles, read a grid of dots and letters that represents an apple shape (without explaining that it was instructions for every second row), learn how to make an enormous knitted button hole using a crochet hook rather than casting on (including teaching a left-hander how to crochet in the process), and casti off with a darning needle using something called Kitchener Stitch requiring no sewing!

The pattern has a clever reverse-stitch/colour combo in order to achieve a kind of hologram effect when holding the cover horizontally to reveal a perfect Apple apple logo. You can’t really see the shape when holding the cover at a different angle, you can see there’s a pattern of some sort but not a recognisable shape. Very clever!

The recipient (Rod) was very chuffed with it!