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.
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