12 in 12: Vampire Diary Protector

It's been a while since I did 12 in 12 project updates. The Fishy sweater is still in timeout. I've not fallen in love with other projects, but took the advice of my fellow knitters and did several small projects to get my mojo back. Cue this project.

Knitting a book cover never occurred to me, so when I saw this pattern I knew it was something I'd use. I have lots of books, love practicing my cabling skills and the entire vampire thing was a bonus.

I read a comment about the new Breaking Dawn preview that something like "RAWRR! I'd like to wake up to feathers in my hair from a vamp." and it made me realize why I like these books. Twilight books are fun, but I don't fantasize or relate to them in other ways in my daily life. I never thought of it like "OH! I want vamp feathers in my hair.". Books are a form of escape and many times, I read the book, forget it, pick it back up and read it again and the enjoyment is still there for the exact same book. Enjoyment of the moments of escape is why I read.

This was a fairly quick knit. I've knit the pattern and it said my "cover" should measure to fit a 5X8 inch book. Which it doesn't. My gauge is whack. It measures to fit a 3.5X6 inch book cover. So, I'm going to do maybe one or two more cable repeats, add the inner flaps that hold the cover onto the book and call it a day. I suspect I'm going to be cutting it close to my yarn yardage. Which if I run out, I'll fudge on that and call it a design element.

Go me! Hope your 12 in 12 is going like gangbusters. I'm finishing up a sweater this week and pulling the Fishy sweater back out to try to make some progress on it.