Knitting a dainty laptop bag on two circulars

5th Aug 2009, by admin, filed in Knitting
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Laptop sock with flap

I’ve been looking for a cute laptopbag for my dainty little laptop for ages and there don’t seem to be any, so you’ll get stuck with huge, black, padded monstrosities. Have no fear, help is near! In the form of a home knit, cute&dainty laptop sock. Keep your laptop safe from scratches.

If you’re in a hurry, you can easily knit this without the little flap. Somehow I like flaps, but they’re not necessary at all if you knit your laptop sock snug enough. Flaps are cute though and they allow you to knit a bit larger and maybe even put in your cables or mouse.

Start knitting the flap:

measure your laptop approx, (I planned on sliding my laptop in sideways, thought it’d be safer & snugger)
cast on roughly the amount of stitches, rather too many than too few! You can always decrease, but increasing usually means starting over. Not a bad thing per se, but you might want to get it right in one go.
Knit in stocking stitch for 3 to 4 rows, then make two button holes. Don’t know how to make button holes? Don’t worry! It’s easy.
Determine where you want your button holes to go, I put mine at about 4 stitches from both sides, so you knit 4 stitches and then you make the button hole: Bind off the required number of stitches (slip stitch from left to right and pull the one before that over the slipped stitch) and continue in pattern across the row. (Remember that it takes two stitches to bind off the first stitch.) Count your stitches at the end of the row, subtracting the number you were told to bind off.
More on buttonholes at Howstuffworks.com, and it’s a fun site anyway.
Knit about 10 more rows to finish the flap. (if you want a bigger flap then knit boldly on!)Knitting the laptop tube on two circulars:

Then add ten more stitches, or rather, the amount of stitches you’ve already been knitting times two. In my case, I have a cute, tiny laptop, so ten stitches extra were enough, but you might need more!

Divide them over your two circulars, connect all the stitches so you’re knitting a sock tube. Not sure how to knit a sock tube on two circs? Here’s how
Knit til your tube is slightly longer than the width of your laptop (if, like me, you plan on sliding your laptop in sideways)
Turn inside out and graft the toe. You can use the Kitchener Stitch or the wale-to-wale seem, or whatever rocks your particular boat.
Buy two nice big buttons, sow ‘em on
et voila! You have a snug little laptop bag, you’ll the envy of everybody in the bar!