It's cell phone magic!
I'm always amazed when I go from
to this:
in about two hours. TWO HOURS!
Thanks to a donation from a kind livejournaler who had the yarn and nothing to do with it, I had some lovely cotton to make this cozy.
The cozy itself is based on this pattern, though I decreased the stitch count from 40 to 30. The pattern I charted out is supposed to be a caduceus (the symbol of Hermes, the Greek messenger god), but that didn't quite work out the way I wanted it. If I can figure out how to make it work, I'll make a jpeg of the chart.
If I was going to do it over again (and I'm not), I would start the intarsia chart at 6 rows in instead of 10. I tried to center the chart and failed horribly.
More importantly, I would STOP DOING INTARSIA IN THE ROUND and knit this flat and sew the damn seams. As much as I hate them, I think it would look better.
All in all, for two hours, it's not too shabby, though.
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