Protect your laptop with a pretty lace stitch sleeve that works up quick as a wink! Adorn with a pop-art flower for a cute accessory that’s sure to get compliments wherever you go.
V-Stitch Laptop Sleeve
Size
Instructions are written so sleeve can be made to fit any laptop. Sleeve is designed to stretch slightly to fit.
Materials
About 175 yds./160 m main color worsted-weight yarn
Small amounts three contrasting colors for flower
G (4.00mm) hook
Gauge is not important
Instructions
Rnd 1:With main color, ch a multiple of 4 + 7 stitches to make a chain as long as longest side of laptop without stretching (I chained 47 for my 15” laptop), 3 sc in second ch from hook, sc in each ch across to last ch, 3 sc in last ch; working on opposite side of starting ch, sc in each st across, join with sl st in first sc. Number of stitches should be divisible by 3.
Rnd 2: Ch 1, sc in each st around, join.
Rnd 3: Ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in next st and in each st around, join with sl st in top of ch 3.
Rnd 4: Ch 4 (counts as dc and ch 1), dc in same st—beginning V-stitch made, skip next 2 sts, * (dc, ch 1, dc) in next st—V-stitch made, skip next 2 st; repeat from * around, join with sl st in third ch of beginning ch-4.
Rnd 5: Sl st into center of beginning V-stitch, ch 4, dc in same st, (V-stitch in next V-stitch) around, join.
Repeat round 5 until piece almost fits laptop.
Last rnd: Ch 3, dc in each ch-1 sp and in each dc around, join. Fasten off.
Flower
Rnd 1: With first contrasting color, ch 5, join with sl st in first ch to form ring, ch 4 (counts as dc and ch 1), (dc, ch 1) 9 times in ring, join with sl st in third ch of beginning ch-4. Fasten off. (10 dc and 10 ch-1 sps)
Rnd 2: Join second color with sl st in any ch-1 sp, ch 6 (counts as dc and ch 3), (dc in next ch-1 sp, ch 3) around, join with sl st in third ch of beginning ch-6.
Rnd 3: Sl st in next ch-3 sp, ch 1, 5 sc in each ch-3 sp around, join. Fasten off.
Rnd 4: Join third color with sc in first sc of any 5-sc group, (ch 3, skip next 3 sts, sc in next st, ch 7, skip next 5 sc, sc in next sc) around ending with join with sl st in first sc.
Rnd 5: Sl st in ch-3 sp, ch 1, sc in same sp, 11 dc in next ch-7 sp, (sc in next ch-3 sp, 11 dc in next ch-7 sp) around, join. Fasten off.
Finishing
Sew flower to laptop sleeve as shown in photo.
Great pattern! I think I need handles, tho, as I don’t carry a huge purse or briefcase and everything I take needs to be hung from the handles on my walker. Thanks for sharing! also, could you make the link to the pattern on your blog a bit more obvious? I got a lot of trips to see the enlarged jpgs. I’m still using a computer to read my emails and unless the links are in another color or underlined, I can’t find them. Thx.
Good idea, Sandeleh, handles. As far as the link to the pattern in the emails that go out to the email subscribers, unfortunately I can’t edit those in any way. They are a WordPress feature and it’s all magic as far as I can tell lol. I’m sorry the links aren’t very obvious.
I almost missed the “Print – PDF” button, too. I think it is a little over-shadowed by the larger Craftsy box above it. Maybe the Craftsy box could be moved below the “Print PDF”, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. buttons?
I think I can make the print/pdf button bigger. I’ll go try! I wish I could move that Craftsy box but not sure I can. I’m kind of feeling my way around in the dark with a lot of the wordpress features! But I am pretty sure I can make the print button bigger.
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful patterns. Easy to follow directions.
I’m glad I have the habit of reading comments as well 🙂 I missed the PDF button as well – but thanks to previous commenters now I have it on my computer 🙂
thanks for sharing this pattern!
Hi,
This is perfect and I can’t wait to try this! Thank you so much!
Can someone clarify whether this is US or UK ‘language’ for the stitches please?
Sorry if this is obvious, I’m kind of new.
Also, even with the guidance in the comments, I can’t see the PDF button 🙁