knitted laptop sleeve

i am not, in anyway, a good knitter. i think you know you're not particularly gifted at something when you forget how to to do it halfway through a project. however, there are a few things [other than scarves] that can be knitted with very little talent...and this laptop sleeve would be one of them.

you pretty much start off with a ridiculously long piece of knitting. i was knitting for my 13" macbook pro, and did 152 rows of 45 stitches, but it really just depends on what type and thickness your wool is, what size needles your using and how tight you knit - so the best thing to do is just measure as you go and work it out yourself...

if you look closely at the next picture, you can see one of the two button holes i put in before the last 6 rows. apparently making giant holes in your knitting is harder than you'd think, but i found this really good tutorial on how to get really nice, sturdy button holes...


i folded mine at around row 63, but again it depends on your particular piece - remember that wool stretches a fair bit, so you don't actually have to knit the length of your laptop - initially my strip was significantly thinner than my laptop, and just stretched to fit the whole way around...


to bind it all together, you just sew the edges with that stitching where you go in and out [my knowledge of sewing is even more appalling than that of my knitting]. for both sides, start from the bottom and go right up until the main pocket ends and the flap begins, using the same wool you were knitting with. 


run all the extra lengths of wool back through the knitting, turn the whole thing inside out and whack some ginormously cute buttons on the front. 

the final product in this photo is hard to see with so many colours in the wool, but you get the idea...