Pattern: Detlef-13 (Felted laptop sleeve for 13-inch laptop)
I finished the laptop sleeve this week! It came out quite nice; I think it will do a great job of keeping my Macbook from getting scratched! Here is the pattern.
It takes three skeins of Cascade 220 (two main color, one contrast color), and is knitted in the round, double-stranded. It has a zipper around three sides, so you can open it up all the way instead of having to slide the laptop in and out of a pouch-type bag. It’s a quick knit and lots of fun.
Here are a couple more pics (click on each to see the larger photos at Flickr):
If you make one of these, please send me a picture! I’ll post a link to it here. 
(Wondering why the pattern is “Detlef-13″? Well, the original name turned out to already be taken, by a German maker of laptop sleeves. And Detlef, a German name, is “felted” backwards.)
March 17th, 2007 at 9:18 am
That is AWESOME!
I think I need to make one–my dh is a mac programmer and he’d love it!
Guess I need to measure his–he has a macbook pro (I have a powerbook 13″ so maybe I should make one for me, lol!)
March 17th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I don’t know the dimensions of the Macbook Pro, but it’s pretty easy to adjust the sizing on this based on the gauge. My Macbook is the 13.3 one — the bag is very slightly loose on it, but I could have felted it down a bit more. I was impatient to be done. I think if I’d done one more felting round it would have been skin-tight on the Macbook, but this way there is room to put in a folder of papers or something without having it be skin-tight.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I’ve been searching for something like this all over the place! Its perfect! I just got a new mac book a couple days ago and want to make a cover for it. Great thing is, its a 13 inch one.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
That will be perfect, then.
How do you like your Macbook? I love mine. I had an iBook before, but the Macbook is much cooler. 
March 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Nice laptop sleeve, I especially like the zipper on three sides. Thank you for the pattern, I will be trying one for my laptop soon.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I’m in love with it! Its my baby! So much better then my boring old Windows XP desktop.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Oh, quick question. Will 29″ circular needles work?
March 24th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Yes, I think mine were actually 29s. 24 seemed like it would be better but 29s weren’t really a problem. I was using the Boye Needlemaster kit needles for it.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:04 am
That is absolutely incredible. What a great idea.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Hi, I love the laptop computer sleeve, it is exactly what I have been looking for, however I cannot access the pattern - if there is anyway you could send it to me I would really appreciate it . Thank you Betsy Spurr espurr@aol.com
April 19th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Hello,
Please try again — it’s hosted on Ravelry now, and occasionally Rav is down for maintenance or something, but it should work. However, you have to have a PDF reader like Adobe Acrobat or you won’t be able to see it.
If it still doesn’t work, please post again, but let me know exactly what happened when you tried to access it, because I just tested and it is working right now. Thanks!
(Oh, also, your browser might have downloaded the file and just not shown it to you. If you look in the folder where your browser puts all the downloaded files, it might be there already.)