After a lovely week with family and friends up north - we have made it safely home and have begun settling back in to a routine. While in the lovely South Bend Indiana I made some wonderful acquisitions - a brand spanking new Vizio Tablet (to catalog and view my knitting and crochet patterns and to better be able to keep up this new blog). I am very pleased with it!
The second gift - thanks to the precious giving spirit of my mother who is the definition of servanthood - was a true treasure trove of fiber art - old and new. Vintage Yarn, crochet hooks in sizes I didn't know existed, circular needles, embroidery thread, patterns, magazines, buttons, needles, scissors, full sets of traditional knitting needles...I could go on and on.My mother took care of an elderly woman who was in need of a friend/advocate who recently passed. Because the woman had literally no living relatives, she left a great deal of her possessions to my mother. This woman was very skilled at these crafts and left behind a great deal of projects - many partially finished and many painstakingly completed with such craftsmanship as one would only see today done by an embroidery machine or a knitting machine.
So for me - this new piece of technology and the old boxes of yarn upon yarn met up with such perfect timing...no way Jose was I going to spend upwards of $50 for a case for my tablet which gave me the brilliant excuse to break into some of my new old yarn. I searched around for some patterns for a crocheted case and found a few but was left dissatisfied.
For my Vizio tablet...
I used a size P (10.00mm) crochet hook and four strands of worsted weight yarn (or shoot for a superbulky yarn).
Chain 14
DC in 3rd chain from hook and in each chain across
Turn, ch 2, dc in each ea st across
Repeat until you can fold the panel around the tablet.
To create the flap:
Ch 2, skip the first st and dc across. In the middle of ea row, dcdec.
Repeat until you are down to 2 st and tie off.
Fold and sc up one side to join the sides.
DC around the flap (this helped create a smooth sturdy edge)
SC down the other side to join the sides and tie off.
Weave in ends and turn inside out.
Sew on a button that will fit thru the dc's of the flap.
This will be super easy to change for a different sized tablet. Just play with the length of the foundation chain. This will also change if you use a different size of hook/yarn - which would work if you want.
Mine turned out super bulky which is exactly what I wanted in order to keep my tablet safe in my bag.
The second gift - thanks to the precious giving spirit of my mother who is the definition of servanthood - was a true treasure trove of fiber art - old and new. Vintage Yarn, crochet hooks in sizes I didn't know existed, circular needles, embroidery thread, patterns, magazines, buttons, needles, scissors, full sets of traditional knitting needles...I could go on and on.My mother took care of an elderly woman who was in need of a friend/advocate who recently passed. Because the woman had literally no living relatives, she left a great deal of her possessions to my mother. This woman was very skilled at these crafts and left behind a great deal of projects - many partially finished and many painstakingly completed with such craftsmanship as one would only see today done by an embroidery machine or a knitting machine.
So for me - this new piece of technology and the old boxes of yarn upon yarn met up with such perfect timing...no way Jose was I going to spend upwards of $50 for a case for my tablet which gave me the brilliant excuse to break into some of my new old yarn. I searched around for some patterns for a crocheted case and found a few but was left dissatisfied.
For my Vizio tablet...
I used a size P (10.00mm) crochet hook and four strands of worsted weight yarn (or shoot for a superbulky yarn).
Chain 14
DC in 3rd chain from hook and in each chain across
Turn, ch 2, dc in each ea st across
Repeat until you can fold the panel around the tablet.
To create the flap:
Ch 2, skip the first st and dc across. In the middle of ea row, dcdec.
Repeat until you are down to 2 st and tie off.
Fold and sc up one side to join the sides.
DC around the flap (this helped create a smooth sturdy edge)
SC down the other side to join the sides and tie off.
Weave in ends and turn inside out.
Sew on a button that will fit thru the dc's of the flap.
This will be super easy to change for a different sized tablet. Just play with the length of the foundation chain. This will also change if you use a different size of hook/yarn - which would work if you want.
Mine turned out super bulky which is exactly what I wanted in order to keep my tablet safe in my bag.
