I've Seen Things - An iPad Sleeve

The deed is finally done. The Blade Runner ipad sleeve has reached its rightful owner. And the whole process has taken just a bit over a year.

It started as a barter, I needed something, and offered something in return. That something turned out to be - after some negociation -  an ipad sleeve, with a text from Blade Runner, to be precise, by Rutger Hauer, who played the Nexus-6 Replicant Roy Batty.

First I needed the appropiate yarn, then things happened and the yarn stayed in a ziplock bag for months, then I made the design, in an excel page, nothing fancy, had it approved and starter knitting.

I love stranded knitting: I love its binary matrix, the fact that you just have to knit, no purling, no cables, no lace, just plain old knit stitch.

I started it in the round, with a provisional cast-on, and went round and round through the chart.
I purled a row to create the hem and after a black round did some in blue on the other side.
And then I undid the provisional cast-on and used kitchener stitch to close the bottom.
I wanted the ipad to be really protected while inside its sleeve, that's why I added a layer of heavy padding inside and also a pretty starry cotton lining.
No closure was needed because the sleeve it's really snug and fitting.

before padding

after padding

I'm very proud of the finished product..
I like it, Rosa likes it and I hope you like it too!!!

pretty starry lining

This Is The Matrix

Primera venda on-line  feta i entregada amb éxit.

És el segón buff de Matrix que faig. 

El primer el vaig fer per un regal d'aniversari per al meu cosí Hector. Que perqué un buff de Matrix? Doncs perque entre els dos  potser vam anar unes 6 vegades al cine a veure-la, una de les vegades deixant el sopar a taula a mig menjar, anant cap a Lleida a tot lo que donava el cotxe i corrent de Cap-Pont al principal PER TORNAR A VEURE-LA.

"My name is Neo"  era la seua frase preferida aquell estiu.

Quan em vaig proposar fer un 

any sencer de regals d'aniversari a punt, el seu va ser dels que em vaig haver de pensar menys.

Després van venir tots els maldecaps per a fer un gràfic amb els símbols de la pantalla, i després per a fer el buff. Seguir un gràfic amb frases és molt més senzill perque no et perds amb tanta facilitat. Però va valer la pena.

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Quan vaig obrir la botigueta a Etsy, se'm va acudir posar-lo com producte per comanda. I tot just al dia següent el Lluis me'n va comprar un. Va ser la primera venda de la botiga i em va fer moltíssima il·lusió.

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Com que l'havia de fer, li vaig oferir l'opció d'introduir algo personal a les columnes de codi, el del Hector també porta missatges entre el codi. Aixó també fa que el producte sigui únic.

Podeu trobar els missatges ocults?

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First on-line sell done, sent and received successfully.

It's my second Matrix cowl.

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The first one was a birthday present for my cousin Hector. Why a Matrix cowl? Because  we went to the cinema to watch it about 6 times (3 times each), one of them leaving our dinner half eaten on the table, going to town as fast as the car would go, running along the bridge to the cinema TO WATCH IT AGAIN.

"My name is Neo" was his favourite sentence that summer.

When I decided to knit a whole year of birthday presents, his was amongst the ones I had to think about the least.

this is the matrix 1

After that came all the pains to make a good chart out of the matrix screen symbols, and after that to make the cowl. To follow sentences from a chart is way easier because you don't get lost all the time. But it was worth it.

When I opened my little etsy shop, I offered it as a made to order product. And just the day after, Lluis bought it. It was the first sell of the shop and I was delighted.

As I had yet to knit it, I offered him the option of adding something personal between the columns of code, my cousin's has also personal messages inside the code. That makes the product unique.

Can you find the hidden messages?

this is the matrix 2