First things first….in addition to my addiction obsession love of making hats (especially little ones), I also have a thing for cozies. You see, I LOVE gadgets and I love to be able to take them places with me, but just shoving my e-reader in my purse isn’t much of an option unless I want to scratch the screen to bits. Not to mention, there is just something about using laptop case that I made that makes me happy.
So when I saw that one of our Nerd Wars Challenges this month was to make something inspired by a gadget I knew I needed to make a cozy for my new iPad.
I didn’t have an actual pattern for this one. Instead, I chose to use a stitch pattern from a book I recently bought – Knitting Stitches Visual Encyclopedia by Sharon Turner – and figure out the cozy from there. I swatched up a sample, measured everything out, and started knitting from there. I decided to do it in the round since I didn’t want seams running up the sides and to avoid a seam at the bottom, I used a provisional cast-on so that I could go back and have live stitches to close up. When I got to length I needed, I bound off about half the stitches and knitted the flap flat with a buttonhole near the end (thanks to knittinghelp.com for showing me how to make a buttonhole). I unzipped the provisional cast on and used the kitchener stitch to close up the other end. I had to block the flap so that it laid right when the iPad was put in the cozy. And finally, I added a button.
Here’s the result:
The yarn is Knit Picks Comfy Worsted in Blackberry. I chose it because it’s a soft cotton blend and since the cozy is not lined, the yarn will be rubbing on the iPad itself and I didn’t want to risk any kind of fine scratching or anything weird like that.
As for the color, the Blackberry is a deep purple which I picked because of it’s similarity to the purple goo neutralizer in Warehouse 13. Since I am on Team Paranormal Investigations (Team PI, for short), I pull my Nerd Wars inspirations from TV shows & movies that are based on researching supernatural things. And one of my favorite shows of that genre is Warehouse 13. The purple goo (or neutralizer) keeps the items they hunt down in the show from getting out of hand. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you should probably check out the show…it’s awesome & you can stream it from Netflix.)
On the whole, I’m quite happy with result. Although I think for the next iPad cozy I make, I’ll choose a yarn that isn’t quite so soft & stretchy and put in a liner instead.















