A person on Ravelry.com saw my Cabled Hot Water Bottle Cover. She had seen a picture of a cabled wine bottle cover and asked if my hot water bottle cover might be able to be adapted into a wine bottle cover. This got me thinking. :o)
The answer was that it would be easier to design a wine bottle cover from scratch than try to adapt the hot water bottle cover pattern. I am currently writing the pattern as I knit. This is fairly standard for my design process.
The bottom of the cover is a simple stocking stitch circle/octagon that increases by 8 stitches every second round. When the bottom has 48 sts, the increasing stops and the sides start. Then it is a simple cable pattern all the way up the height of the bottle. (I am about half way up just now.)
When the top of the bottle is reached I shall put in a round of eyelets, work a couple more patterns of the cable, and then a moss stitch border (seed st in US). This will cause the top cover to flair out slightly.
I hope to have finished the knitting and the pattern by this evening. A photograph will follow.
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