{"id":1069,"date":"2012-01-26T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2012-01-26T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:25:35","slug":"pencil-sleeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2012\/01\/pencil-sleeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil Sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you want to knit, but don&#8217;t really want to knit?\u00a0 You make pencil warmers.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Pencil Sleeves by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/6766154313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7148\/6766154313_e395c83494.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Sleeves\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am definitely not the original owner of this idea, I have seen pictures of this before, but I looked for similar patterns on ravelry and online and couldn&#8217;t find one so I thought I should share.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can use any fingering scrap yarn you have, you really only need a couple of metres.<\/p>\n<p>Size 0 DPNs.\u00a0 I think you might be able to get away with upto a size 2 just try to knit as tight as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cast on 12 stitches.\u00a0 Distribute evenly on 3 needles.\u00a0 Join and knit in the round until 6 cm long, bind off and weave in ends.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat until you have a rainbow of cute little pencil warmers.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Pencil Sleeves by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/6766149419\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7001\/6766149419_38089dbe90.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Sleeves\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis also works beautifully with varriegated yarns with really short repeats, it looks like stripes.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Pencil Sleeves by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/6766146011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7169\/6766146011_8db95c3c11.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Sleeves\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne word of advice though, this is slightly addictive.\u00a0 It is a project that takes about 20 minutes from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you want to knit, but don&#8217;t really want to knit?\u00a0 You make pencil warmers. 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