Mobile love

So you may all have thought that I had forgotten about my knitting craze, but I can assure you that that is not true. I was veeery busy with an important school assignment, which took more energy and life out of me than I would have thought, and left me without any for colourful pursuits. But that is handed in now, and I have some time on my hand, while my newest project was laying ready to be put together.
Now there are a lot of fashionable things in the "Knitting for cool girls" book that I will never attempt to make or even see the point of (a cardigan for your dog, to name the most obvious example) but there was one thing in there that I had been looking for for ages; a mobile phone case. I keep my phone in an old sunglasses-protection-bag (refusing to pay 25 Euros for the ugly fashionable one that fits my phone), but that doesn't work very well and in the book there was a great example of one. Now it does have a heart on it, which will immediately take 10 points off my IQ and condemn me as a girly-girl in many eyes, but I tried looking for a star-pattern (which I would really like) and couldn't find one. So, green case with purple heart it was.
The knitting went great, apart from the fact that I didn't leave enough thread on the back when doing the hearts, so that they look kinda squashed together. I may have to do another one just to satisfy my ego on this point. Here is what it looked like post-knitting:

A phone-case sausage.

So obviously it needed to be pressed (which basically means ironing it with a moist cloth between iron and wool), and there were instructions for that in both knitting books (I bought another one!) I have, although the one said to put the good side facing up and the other to put it facing down. Knitting really is just like baking a cake; you get a load of conflicting instructions and just try to make sense of it. You can see which option I chose;

Hideous background, aka our iron board cover!

Now this may be the very first time in my life that I actually used pins for what they were meant to be used for. I have two small boxes of them, but I only used them to tack posters of boy bands on my wallpaper when I was a teenager (my mother despaired of having no pins left, which is I have to boxes full).
Anyway, the case was pressed, dried, pins removed (although one book suggested first removing the pins and then letting it dry), and then I sewed it together to form (still not following any method, I mean, the stitches will be on the inside anyway);

Mobile love, baby!

Done! Okay, it is way too big for my phone (which you can't see in this picture, because the picture was taken by my phone, but take my word for it). But it's the effort that counts, right?
Oh yes, according to the book I was supposed to sew an inner pocket first, as a lining, and then sew the two together using some weird form of dark magic (or at least a very incomprehensible set of instructions). Not going to happen. I do not have the patience to sew one thing together, let alone two. Also, I am supposed to put a little heart-shaped button on top, but if you think that I happen to have heart-shaped buttons laying around you clearly do not know me. So I guess it is done. Whether I will actually use it will be another question.

My next project will depend on whether I can get the right wool and needles I need. The little wool shop in the city centre is very expensive and the woman working there does not understand what I'm talking about, so I may have to resort to online-ordering, which is annoying because then I can't feel the texture of the wool or see whether colours work together properly. I may just do another phone case first, because this one is too big and the hearts are clearly pulling on the threads in the middle and I am getting less satisfied with it the more I look at it. Which is good, because as I said, frustration breeds creativity! There are some neat patterns in my new knitting book which I can try, and in this day and age, one can never have too many phone accessories!