Ben Nevis Crochet Camera Cases

So this is the last project from the French Alps. My last few weeks in Chamonix were very stressful and there was a lot going on, most of it not good. I found nearly not enough time for knitting and crochet, or even skiing. It was really struggling to finish any knitting project i started, and was getting really frustrated at myself.

But i work in cycles, as as one cycle ends another starts. I think that this is the end of my current knitting phase, and i have moved on to a new crochet phase. My last major crochet phase had me frantically hooking up granny squares like a crazy woman. This time my mind seams to be focused on more simple solid items. I can visualize me hooking up hats, headbands and mitts, in more simple double crochet. But i am probably imagining completing more than i ever will.

My first crochet project in this phase, are these little cases, for mobile phones and cameras. The inspiration was a camera case that i made several years ago after i bought a camera on a trip to Scotland. Once i bought the camera, the sales man tried to persuade me to buy a case, but i had just learnt to crochet, so was eager to make my own. I went in search of a yarn store, i found a John Lewis with a haberdashery and bought a hook and yarn and hooked it up on the train to Ben Nevis (highest mountain in UK). This case was starting to look a bit battered, so i hooked up this new one with the chunky Phildar (Partner) yarn that i bought in Sallanches.

The pattern is really simple (slightly modified to give a better finish)

• Row 1: Chain 14, DC into second chain and then double crochet (DC) in to each chain (13 stitches), turn work.
• Row 2: Chain 2 then DC until end of work, turn work.
• Repeat row 2 until work wraps around the camera (or phone) and overlaps by 1 inch, turn work.
• Decrease row 1: DC until 2 before end of row, then decrease last 2 stitches. Turn work.
• Decrease row 2: DC to end of work. Turn work.
• Repeat these two decrease rows until there are 8 stitches remaining.
• Now decrease both ends of work.
• When there are 2 stitches remaining make a chain of 6 stitches, then slip-stitch into the next stitch.
• Sew in ends.
• Sew or crochet up sides.
• Add a button or make a crochet button.
• Pull camera strap through fabric with a crochet hook.

Once i had finished this little project ,and it only took me an hour so. I made two more with the same yarn only in sport weight, i made these for my mobile phone and work phone. This little project was the therapy i needed after a needlessly hard couple of weeks.