You can catch it on FSC tonight- pregame starts at 5:30, kick-off is around 6. Watch it.

[insert evil laugh here]

Will be spending the next couple days thinking about what to do with it!

I love thrift stores. I took a trip to Savers over spring break and found a kid’s small World Cup t-shirt. My mother didn’t think a t-shirt was enough to protect my computer, so I dug up some fleece remnants I had purchased a couple months before, in hopes of making a hat and scarf.

Then I remembered I didn’t have a sewing machine.

Pics after the jump.

The front of the case. 

The first think I did was rip out all the seams to just use the front and back. I threw out the sleeves, though you could always retro-fit them into pockets for you other electronic goodies if you want. I lined the lining and t-shirt up and sewed the seam for the opening. I did this for the back too. Once I had that done, I sewed the front and back together (right sides together, of course). 

The lining of the laptop case

Wrong sport. You can’t find any soccer team fleece in the US, though.

The case fits snugly around the computer

Cost of remnants: $3.00. Cost of t-shirt: $1.00. Time spent: 6 hours, approx.

It’s a truly awesome pattern. I tried it out in some scrap yarn to make a blue and white one (Italy, see?). Unfortunately, I’m 300 miles away from it and never took pictures.

What I did next was go out and find red, white and blue wool, doubled the size of the pattern-starting with 10 stitches on each side of each panel, and created my first knitting project devoted to my favorite MLS team: the Revs soccer ball.

Before pics after the jump:

You have to see a series of pictures to understand what I did…

I did one of the pentagons surrounded by five hexagons in red for the top and another six panels for the blue. They were connected by 10 pentagons and ten hexagons in white. Then I stitched “Revolution” and the team crest on the white.

You have to see the whole thing rotated to get it:

The Revs Crest on the Ball

"REVO"

"OLU"

"UTION"

Somehow, I forgot “After” (after the laundry machine!) pics, and again, 300 miles away. But don’t worry, I actually have a project I’ve completed to show you later!

I’ve searched for soccer knitting patterns before, and haven’t found much. I’ve figured I could take this into my own hands. Over the next couple weeks, I’ll be putting up pictures and descriptions of previous projects, then hopefully start on the new stuff this summer.