Game Boy for the iPhone Generation.

Continuing with my drive to put more time and effort into designing and making my own creations, I thought it might be fun to make myself a new phone case. Being a poseur, I have an iPhone. It's an old one, mind. And I maintain that it is an aid to my craft because I have a variety of knitting apps that allow me to access patterns and count my rows at the mere touch of a button. Ahem. But being a touchscreen it does require some sort of soft cover to stop my keys scratching it to bits in my handbag.

Further to this, I must (shamefully) admit that I am jealous of those with an iPhone 4s. Not because of Siri or any of that gubbins but because they come with an awesome array of case accessories. And where would any right thinking person of style be without accessories, daaahling? Nowhere. That's where. So imagine my green-eyed fury when I saw on a friend's picture that you can get a case that turns your phone into a Game Boy. The gamer girl geek inside me shrieked, 'TO THE KNIT CAVE!'

So how do you go about knitting a phone case that looks like an old handheld game console? Well, first of all I blocked out a simple design on squared paper to incorporate the screen, surround, controller and buttons. This took a few goes to make it all proportionate. I cast on 20 stitches on UK size 9 needles and just started knitting. Once my work was roughly the length of my phone, I started on the pattern. I then carried on with the block colour again until the whole piece could fit around both sides of my phone. I sewed up the sides, leaving an opening to slip the phone in and out of, and my case was finished!

I think next time I will use grey wool for the console colour, as I'm not too happy with it. But I am pleased with it as a first attempt. Mr. KnitsandGiggles also deserves a brief mention at this stage. I often send him to my wool cupboard to fond balls of wool and he invariably comes back with the wrong colour, thickness etc. However, it seems that sending him off with the instruction to find wool that is 'Game Boy button coloured' is an easy task indeed! What a man.

As ever, message me if you'd like the pattern.