Last minute Mother's Day Gift

The weather here in Yorkshire has been beautiful over the last couple of days, spring is certainly in the air.  Yesterday I went for a lovely walk in our local park, forgot the camera unfortunately, but everything is waking up from its long winter sleep.  I saw a bright yellow butterfly (at least I think it was a butterfly it seemed a bit large for a moth), lots of ladybirds and a trio of frogs making their way to the pond.  It really is a lovely park, with lots of ancient woodland.  I think I will take photos and do a whole post about it.

Mother's Day for me is the first real celebration of spring a time for loving, giving and remembering. I was reading about Mother's Day and the tradition of girls in service making Simnell cake to take home, and I got to wondering if my Nan who was in service from the age of 14 made one for her Mum.

This week I made this iphone/ipod touch cover which I thought I would share with you, it will make a nice gift for Mother's Day or to make for charity sales.

 I used:

Approx: 30g of Sublime Soya Cotton Double Knit in 2 colours or any Double Knit yarn
A pair of 3 3/4mm needles
Approx: 1/2 metre of ribbon
A tapestry needle with a big eye for sewing up and a small safety pin to thread ribbon through.

Special Abbreviation:  Make star = p3tog leaving all sts on the needle, yarn over, purl same sts together again and slip all 3 off needle.

Cast on 37sts
Row1: Using main colour knit.
Row2: Using main colour p1, (make star, p1) to end of row.
Row3: Using contrast colour knit.
Row4: Using contrast colour p3, make star, (p1,make star) to last 3sts p3.

Work the last 4 rows 7 times in all, carry each colour up the side of your work when not in use.

Using the main colour work 8 rows in st.st. (knit 1 row, purl 1 row).
Cast off.

To make up: Fold over the st.st.to the wrong side and slip stitch to the first row of st.st.
Fold the work right sides together and sew along the bottom and up the side leaving the st.st. open to thread the ribbon through.

Please pop over to Handmade Monday  a lovely blog by Wendy of 1st Unique Gifts there you will find lots of links to some wonderful crafters.


On the needles this week:  a pair of merino bootees, a vintage baby dress in 3ply and a ladies black pleated skirt for an exhibition.  Busy, busy!! Happy knitting.