Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 14:12:35 -0500
From: Amsknit@amsmyth.demon.co.uk (Annabel Smyth)
To: Multiple recipients of list <knit@geom.umn.edu>
Subject: Virgins and Hotties

Hmm.  A number of folk have asked me for my hot-water-bottle cover
pattern, and as I'm fairly sure it's original I thought I would post it
here:

For the knit cover, take some yarn (duh!!!) and needles which knit it
to a sensible tension (gauge).  You probably don't want to go any 
heavier than worsted.

Cast on 1 stitch.
1st row: K into front, back and front of 1st stitch (3 stitches)
2nd and EVERY alternate row: purl
3rd row: k1, k into front, back and front of next stitch, k1 (5 sts)
5th row: k2 ((yarn round needle, k1) twice, k1 (7 sts)
7th row: k2, y.r.n, k3, y.r.n., k2 (9 sts)
9th row: k2, y.r.n., k 2 tog, y.r.n, k1, y.r.n. sl 1, k1, p.s.s.o (or
whatever right-sloping decrease you use), y.r.n, k2 (11 sts)
11th row: k2, y.r.n., k 2 tog, y.r.n, k3, y.r.n. sl 1, k1, p.s.s.o (or
whatever right-sloping decrease you use), y.r.n, k2 (13 sts)
13th row: k2, (y.r.n., k2 tog) twice, y.r.n. k1, (y.r.n., sl 1, k1, p.s.s.o.)
twice, y.r.n., k2 (15 sts)

And so on and so forth, increasing 1 stitch either side of central
stitch as before, until r.h. side of slope will fit the length of the
hot water bottle, or slightly longer, finishing with a wrong-side row:

Next row: k1, (right-sloping-decrease, y.r.n) to last 2 stitches, k2.
Next row: purl

Work thus until left-hand slope will wrap comfortably around the hot-
water-bottle, again finishing with a purl row.  Now count your stitches
and find some way of marking the central stitch.

Next row: k1, right-sloping-decrease, repeat (y.r.n, r.s.d) until
you reach the centre stitch, k1, repeat (k2 tog, y.r.n.) to last 3
stitches, k2 tog, k1.
Next row: purl
Next row: k1, repeat (r.s.d, y.r.n) until 3 centre stitches are 
reached, sl 1, k 2 tog, p.s.s.o. repeat (y.r.n, k2 tog) to last
stitch, k1
Next row: purl

Continue in this way until 7 stitches are left, finishing on a purl row.

Next row: k1, r.s.d., k1, k 2 tog, k1 (5 sts)
Next row: purl
Next row: k1, sl 1, k 2 tog, p.s.s.o, k1 (3 sts)
Next row: purl
Next row: k 3 tog, pull yarn through and fasten off.

Sew the two shorter sides together, and one of the longer sides (if
you like, as I do, to hang your h.w.b.s upside down, leave a gap in
the middle for the hanging-string to poke through!).  Make a cord
(twisted cord, crochet, however you like!), and thread through the
open end to use as a drawstring.
-- 
Annabel Smyth
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Annabel@amsmyth.demon.co.uk
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This pattern downloaded from Wool Works: the online knitting compendium
http://www.woolworks.org/