If you look at the entry below you will see that I saw my friend Berta's Pinterest posting for an afghan design that she wanted to try....if she could only find the pattern.  I took a look....it was a slow rainy Sunday afternoon with lots of sitting around watching movies in the plan, so I grabbed some scrap yarn and gave it a shot.  This is what I came up with, and the pattern to make these little squares is available to you in the entry that I made just prior to this one.

I ran out of the variegated yarn after I had completed 6 squares, although there was still plenty of purple left.  So I left it laying around for a bit on the table in the studio, which is my favorite spot to leave things that I want to think about for a while.  It occurred to me while I was watching a Netflix movie and knitting that the size of the knitting sample was almost perfect for the side and fold over section of the I-pad.  So I knit an I-cord border around the whole thing and then used some of my ENORMOUS stash of rug wool to make an I-Pad cover sleeve which I then sewed the knitting sample to as a kind of decorative cover/extra padding.

As you can see here, I also added a little pocket at the base so that you can roll up the whole shebang, tie it off with the green ties and have your I-Pad at the perfect level of Prop for reading or viewing.  Plus I find that when I sit down to read a nice novel with my cup of tea the customary I-Pad covers are a little....technical in feel.  This knitted, wool backed cover gives the whole experience a nice, cozy, nestling in feel that is more conducive to maximum relaxation...at least for me.

My friend Roberta posted a picture to Pinterest under Things I Want to Try.  I looked at the picture and shot her an e-mail offering to write up the pattern so that she could try it.  This is a photo of my version, using the scrap yarn that I had on hand.  I used a worsted weight yarn and a size 5 needle.  This would be a great pattern to use as your Carrying Around Knitting, particularly if you do the Bow Ties in Stash Scrap Colors (or hand dyes, or handspun) and use a unifying color like black, or white, or grey, or brown in the place of the purple.   I recommend that you just carry around the directions for the Bowties and wait until you are sitting down at home to knit up the little quadrilateral Inserts and do the sewing up while you are comfortable.

Bowtie Pattern:  Cast on 20 stitches using a flexible cast on method.  I Knit On myself, but any method that doesn't result in a hard stiff edge is fine.  Knit one row.  At the beginning of the next 12 rows Slip 1, Knit 1, Pass the Slip stitch over, Knit to the end of the row.  You should have 8 stitches on your needle.  Slip the first stitch and knit to the end of the row for the next 16 rows.  Now to do the last increasing bit.  Knit into the front and back of the first stitch and then knit to the end of the row for the next 12 rows or until you have 20 stitches on your needle.  Bind off with a flexible bind off method.  This is a good one.  Knit 2 stitches then insert the tip of your left hand needle back into the 2 on the right hand needle and knit them together.  Knit another stitch.  Repeat.

Quadrilateral Insert Pattern:  Once you get a few of the Bowties done load up a movie or your favorite music and start to knit the Inserts and assemble your squares.  Cast on 20 stitches and knit one row.  Knit 2 together at the beginning of the next 12 rows.  You should have 8 live stitches left on your needle.  Break off the yarn leaving about a 20 inch tail which you thread onto a darning needle.  Sew the live stitches down, one at a time, to the straight edge at the narrow part of the Bowtie.  Use a mattress stitch to join the angles of the Bowtie and the Insert together.  Use the bit of yarn left from when you cast on to sew up the other angle.  Repeat for the other side, and then over and over as many times as you have little Bowties.  Sew the squares together using a mattress stitch as well.  The mattress stitch keeps things flexible....you don't want hard edges....everything should be kind of stretchy.

Joe and I have started renting out our spare room on Airbnb and the most wonderful thing has happened.  I now get to have breakfast with interesting company several mornings a week.  It's amazing who shows up.
The lady on the left is Chandlee Bryan and she and her friend Ken actually arrived shortly before their e-mail asking for a reservation for that night.  Fortunately we had a cancellation and could accommodate them.  She just wrote a book on using Twitter to find your new job, and was interviewed on CNN where, in my opinion, she did a much better job of presenting herself than Tony Harris did.  Click through on her name and see what you think.
I make scones for breakfast, and you can find my recipe in my blog under patterns....which seemed like the least nonsensical place to put it.  Maybe I need Joe to make me a recipe section??