Like I mentioned when I finished her cute hand warmers, Rachel doesn’t celebrate Christmas, which should have registered with me in the grand knitting time line. Hanukkah starts tomorrow! A full two weeks before Christmas. And five days before her birthday. I should have been on her Hanukkah present well before this past weekend.

Cabled Glass Covers

Cabled Glass Covers

Luckily these knit up really quick!

I started with the white one, a 24 oz salsa jar, and this Design*Sponge entry. The original pattern is part of One More Skein: 30 Quick Projects to Knit by Leigh Radford. If you click on the Design*Sponge link you will find three patterns for these glass covers. Kinda.

From Published Pattern, copied from Design*Sponge:

Change to US 8 needles

Rnd 35-38: *P2, k6; rep to end.

Rnd 39: BO all sts.

Change to US 8 needle and work St st for six rnds (approx. 1 1/4″).

Dec rnd: *k4, k2tog; rep from * to end of rnd.

Work even in St st for 12 rnds (approx. 2″)

So, you bind off all stitches then change to size 8 needles and work in St st?

I ended up just kind of winging it. I thought the increases were oddly and unnecessarily complicated, too.

Fun Cables!

Fun Cables!

So after finishing the white cover with size 8 needles and worsted weight yarn, I pulled out my size 4s and knit the red one in a tighter gauge. The white and red covers have the same number of stitches. Fancy, right? The red jar is a 28 oz salsa jar.

For the brown cover I stuck with the size 4s, increased to the same number of stitches (48), but only did one cable. The jar is a little yeast jar with a more gradual decrease for the lip, so I decreased gradually so the cover fit snuggly.

I think they turned out great! I was keeping my needles in the white jar as I was working on other project this week. And wouldn’t the small one be great for buttons and paper clips? I also like how they were used in the Design*Sponge post as vases. I think Rachel will use at least one of them for flowers, torso.

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