Looking for a Pattern

Hello Fellow Knitters!

I am looking for a pattern for a cell phone case. Can any one suggest one either on the web or in a book?

I know there's one in Knitting Pretty, but it's also available online:

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/Chronicle/excerpt/0811835332-e3.html

And here's another one!
http://www.knitlist.com/2003/cellphone.htm

You mean like a sock to put over your cell? Couldn't you just knit a tube to fit and then kitchener stitch the bottom together like a sack?

You make a line of beading around the top to gather it up with a cord. Or you could put a couple of grommets in the top and hook it wth one of those carabiners to the handle of your bag.

Do it in wool and then felt it to make it washable and indestructable! But you'll have to experiment by felting a swatch to see what your gauge would be.

Sorry. I knit like Red Green builds home improvements: To hell with the instructions, let's BUILD!

I just went over to www.lionbrand.com to check out something for the sweater message thread, and I noticed they have a free pattern for a cell case.

You have to register for their freebies now, though, so I can't give you the link to the pattern.

I think we have a winnder with jpsographic's suggestion from Knitting Pretty. I am not really experienced enough as a knitter to make up a pattern yet, and the Lion's Brand pattern doesn't actually close on the top. I want something to close so that I can throw the phone and my mp3 player(which I will also make one for) in my bag and have them protected. Exciting! Thanks for the help. I knew that the collective wisdom would come to the rescue!

Even as a wildly inexperienced knitter, I find myself making up most of my knitting up as I go along. This doesn't always work out for me, but it has the benefit of not forcing me to use a pre-specified yarn that might or might not fit my budget or be available.

Obviously this will soon be getting me into trouble when I try to start knitting sweaters, but smaller objects usually work, and if they don't, it's usually easy enough to rip out or just start over.

A great resource for experimenters is Vicky Square's Knitter's Companion, little spiral bound knitter's guide. Fits into your bag and gives standard measurements, discusses ways to increase, decrease, how to substitute yarns, etc. etc.

Only thing I've ever NOT been able to find in her book that I wanted were head circumference measures.

I keep some cheapo synthetic yarns around for experimentation purposes. Once I've got the bugs worked out, I buy nicer yarn in the same weight.

If you experiment, keep a notebook or write down your directions as you go.

There are some common head circumferences in Knitting Rules, but while I've knitted the hat recipe in same, (and the excellent socks) I used all wearer-specific measurements. As someone with a freakishly large head, I have a lot of respect for the natural variation in head size.

Hey, thanks for that lead. It's best if you can get a measurement, but it's a dead giveaway someone's getting a hat for Xmas if you ask them to measure their head circumference.

One aspect of head measurement is mentioned in Knitting Rules as related to a measurement of the hand. This, at least, could be taken without danger of tipping one's, er, hat.

RE: CELL PHONE CASE

Actually the first Stitch N' Bitch has one that can be shrunk for a small cell phone or increased for a larger MP3 player. I knit it for my cell phone and it turned out well. I did, however, discover that trying to sew on velcro is a thankless job and wish I had known that previously, as I would have put in a buttonhole.

It is thankless to sew on velcro! And it doesn't seem, to me anyway, to belong on handknitted things.
I've made several small purses, some felted and some not, and instead of knitting in buttonholes, what I've done is to make a short I-cord, form it into a loop and sew it onto the edge of the flap, and add the button under the loop. Unless you make a very skinny I-cord, you'd probably need a fairly large button.

Otherwise, the Stitch n Bitch pattern looks good.

I did that - the I-cord and button - on a kitchen towel that was shaped to hang on a knob and it worked out really well. The cell phone cover was an early project for me (I have only been knitting for a couple of years now) and I may have to knit another one just to incorporate some of the stuff I've learned since then.