Cell phone jacket

I've wanted to do something in white, red and black for some time, but I wasn't sure how it would turn out, so I decided to make something small to start.

I settled on cell phone jackets. Small and functional! After I made the first one, I got so many compliments I decided to make another.

Materials:

• Scrap yarn (any colours)
• Hook size to fit yarn (I used my trusty 3.5mm and a 2.00mm for the flower decoration)
• Decorations (I used beads that came off a yoked top someone bought me)
• Sewing thread and needle (to attach your decoration)
• Buttons (I used a button and loop closure to close my phone jacket, but again, this is entirely up to you)

 I made this cell phone cozy over the weekend with a few scraps of wool I had lying around. The how to can be found here, and you can tweak the pattern to suit your own tastes.

Back view of the finished jackets. The red was my first, so I was still learning, but the white just had to have a little extra something, so I crocheted a simple circle in black, followed by a round of 2sc in each st around, sl st to join, and used a button to sew over the center.

 Forgive my dodgy camera skills...

Front view of the jackets, showing the decorations I made. For the red, I crocheted a small flower with gold embroidery floss and used a big black bead as the flower center. I also sewed on a smaller circular bead close to the top of the jacket.

For the white jacket, I staggered squared beads down the front for a sort of "ladder" effect, which I didn't like at first, but has now grown on me.

 I had some flat black beads lying around from a beaded top someone gave me (the ones with the beaded necklines that usually have replacement beads sewn into the lining).