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Pattern: Detlef-13 (Felted laptop sleeve for 13-inch laptop)
March 11th, 2007 @ 5:49 am



Photo by litlnemo.

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):
Finished laptop sleeve and kitten paws Unzipped laptop sleeve and kitten

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.)

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14 Comments

  1. peanutga11ery1
    said,

    March 17, 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!)

  2. litlnemo
    said,

    March 17, 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.

  3. Jennifer
    said,

    March 19, 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.

  4. litlnemo
    said,

    March 19, 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. :)

  5. Katherine
    said,

    March 20, 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.

  6. Jennifer
    said,

    March 20, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    I’m in love with it! Its my baby! So much better then my boring old Windows XP desktop.

  7. Jennifer
    said,

    March 24, 2007 at 11:09 am

    Oh, quick question. Will 29″ circular needles work?

  8. litlnemo
    said,

    March 24, 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.

  9. pixie knits!
    said,

    March 27, 2007 at 11:04 am

    That is absolutely incredible. What a great idea.

  10. Betsy Spurr
    said,

    April 19, 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

  11. litlnemo
    said,

    April 19, 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.)

  12. Alina Beate Haugene
    said,

    July 11, 2008 at 3:34 am

    Hi,
    In easter I started making my laptop sleeve after your pattern, it was done in beginning of june. I love it so much :) I made mine in purple and white. Now there is a cute little laptop sleeve here in Norway.
    Thanks for the pattern :D

    If you go to my website ; http://blog.darkbuttons.com/?p=32 You’ll see it.

    Thanks, alina

  13. litlnemo
    said,

    July 11, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Thank you for the link! I love the laptop sleeve in purple! :D

  14. Celeste
    said,

    August 13, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Hi! I just wanted to let you know I featured this in my weekly column on Fandomania:

    Fandomestic: 10 Apple-Inspired Creations

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