A Phone Sock

Yep.  I knit my new phone a sock to wear.  :)

It only took an evening.  Admittedly an evening I was supposed to be spending doing something else, but I figured it would be best if my phone didn't get smashed within days of arriving at Chateau SewYLD.

The sock in question is made of super bulky hand spun yarns of varied colours.  I knew if I kept those early experiments in yarn they would come in handy for something and in fact this sock has gained several fans at the office where I am temping.  I am quite pleased with it considering its simplicity and the fact that I more or less randomly grabbed yarns from the bowl based more on their ability to cushion a fall than on aesthetics.  Its also nice to be able to use the handspun for something that I see on a daily basis (or indeed a ten minute basis at the moment as its a new phone and therefore a novelty).

So here it is.  Twenty stitches cast on with 4.5 mm needles.  Two by Two rib except for the middle four stitches which are a cable (cable two forwards).  The phone itself is 5.5 inches tall so the sock was a strip of knitting 13 inches long.  Forgot to put a buttonhole into it, which would have been rather useful, but the sock fits reasonably snugly and the phone has not fallen out yet.  I just folded my strip of knitting in half and sewed it up the sides to make the sock.  I am not claiming this as a great masterpiece of knitting, merely as a functional and reasonably attractive solution to a problem I found myself with on a Sunday night.

For those that love tech, the phone for which the sock was created is a Moto G 4 which is a reasonably large phone though quite light weight and terrifyingly thin compared to my old phone.  Having managed to badly crack the screen on my IPod a couple of weeks ago when I dropped my rucksack on concrete whilst trying to stop the dog from falling down some steps, I'm now completely paranoid about breaking the screen on the new phone.  Particularly as the IPod was in fact inside a hard leather-covered case at the time of impact.