I’ve started carrying a Traveler’s Notebook-style pocket notebook in Field Notes size (90x120 mm), so I needed a cover for it. I cut down a plastic binder and punched holes for the elastic and am now knitting a cabled sleeve for the binder part, like a miniature book cover.

I used the Sunny-Side Up Clutch as a gauge swatch, planned a simple combination of cables and reverse stockinette and knitted and blocked.

But unfortunately, when I blocked, I found that while the inside pieces fit okay, the cabled outside wouldn’t stretch to cover the binder anymore - I think what’s happened is that the cables cover a much smaller proportion of the Sunny-Side Up Clutch than this new notebook, which is exactly 50% cable, and hence it’s simply more contracted. Calculated a new stitch count using the eyeball method and setting out to knit a new one that’s 40 st x 70 rows instead of my initial 32x66 count. Fortunately it’s tiny so it should still be quite quick.

The inside pockets I pretty much eyeballed. The front one is in stockinette with a scatter texture to be pretty; I’m going to make card pockets that go under that top layer and maybe a single one on top.

The back pocket is for my phone and is sized to fit it perfectly, and it’s done in garter stitch to minimize rolling up and make blocking and stretch/elasticity as good as possible. It’s shown with a brass Kaweco Sport in it, which fits alongside my phone, as it happens, but the phone was taking the picture, so.