Sunday 21 June 2009

FO: Book cover

Book cover


Occasionally my books get a bit damaged in my bag, as they have to share space with plenty of things, like knitting, pen knives, the occasional screwdriver set, tape, planner, phone, iPod... you name it, it's there. I am hopping that this will protect them a little bit, because I'm not about to start reading not carry enough stuff for an expedition to the Himalayas.

Technical details
Ravelry project page
Pattern: Improvised, based on the stitch Aran Rib 2 from The Knitter's Bible (amazon|ravelry)
Yarn: Rowan All Seasons Cotton, in Tornado (leftover from Wisteria)
Needles: 4.5mm, dpns

Book cover


Notes: It felt quite good to improvise a pattern based on a stitch. I mean, it's not very complicated, but I had attempted about a year ago to do something similar and I just couldn't get it to work. A bit of thinking and measuring books got me the right size, and then I alternated the cables with a bit of a rib, so that it could tailor all sorts of paperback sizes (there seem to be about 3 common front dimensions, but obviously an enormous array of widths).


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I have just finished Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson. If you like hard science fiction, I strongly recommend this book. Not only is very well written, but how many books you find with suddenly a couple of pages on general and special relativity, and what happens as you get faster and faster?

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Now I'm reading Valis. It is quite an "old" copy, from the first paperback edition in the UK. I really like K Dick, his books always make me think, and that is never a bad thing. Plus, I get to play the "guess how many drugs he was on when he wrote this chapter" game. Seriously :)

4 comments:

  1. Very nice! I also tend to carry around a lot of "stuff", but I've managed to downsize from a large backpack to a medium sized messenger back! I think my worst book damage happened in the backpack - it was an unfortunate interaction between a pencil, a banana, and my Abnormal Psych textbook. Not pretty.

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  2. my books share the same destiny, being damaged in the mids of all the junk in my bag...
    so I must find time in between baby gifts and all those WIPs to make something like this, I really love it!

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  3. I love this idea and must make one soon! It looks wonderful.

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  4. This is super smart, and the color is lovely.

    I am also a big Philip K. Dick fan for a long time. I finally got my husband to read "Valis" after it appeared on an episode of LOST.

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