iSheep

… woolly cover for your stuff

Gauge: 4 sts/ inch                  

Main color: green, and 1 yard lengths of white and black for colorwork

Needles: size 7

Yarn needle

Scissors

-Cast on 19 stitches.

-Knit 3 rows in garter stitch, (knitting every stitch)

-Switch to stockinette stitch, (meaning knit one row and then knit one purl row), until your work measures one inch.

-On the next knit row, knit 5 stitches with the main color, and add the other yarns as

they appear in the chart.

-Use short lengths of black and white yarn, using the stranded technique. 

Note: Stranded knitting is normally done in the round, with only two colors per row, and this piece is knit flat – with three colors – so strand all the colors by carrying them together, twisting them every two stitches with whatever color is being knit at the time, on both the knit and the purl rows. Keep even tension.

-Switch back to the main background color and work in stockinette stitch until the piece is 6 inches long.

-Knit 3 rows in garter stitch. Bind off.

-Fold the work in ½, right sides together and stitch the sides together using the yarn needle and some matching yarn. Secure and weave in all ends.  Turn right side out.

Insert your iPod, or cellphone, or whatever for snuggly storage. iSheep.

Pattern by Laurie Undis*2010*      

Knit Loud. Knit Often.