Crocheted Earphone Wire Tidy — Sum of their Stories Craft Blog

I have a lovely big bag that I use for work. It's massive, so everything I need fits in - lunch (breakfast sometimes!) purse, phone, keys, pens, post, stuff I'm taking in to work, stuff I'm bringing home, you get the idea. The other day I was struggling to find my memory stick so decided to have a little tidy up. That's when I found this:

It's bad, I am ashamed!

All those tangled i-pod wires, so I whipped up a little crochet wrap to keep the earphone wires nice and tidy.

I should say that I LOVE crochet, it's so quick and so easy. I have two more crochet projects on the go at the moment. These little wire tidies took less than 30 minutes each to make, so I ended up making a few. It took me longer to find suitable buttons!

I am assuming here that you can crochet. If not, I recommend looking for an online tutorial or buying The Happy Hooker, Stitch 'n Bitch crochet book. Its great, all the instructions are SO clear and its full of lovely patterns that you will actually want to make.

Earphone Wire Tidy Pattern

You will need:

A little bit of wool (mine was DK, light worsted, but I really don't think it matters)
Small crochet hook (mine was 3.00mm which I think is somewhere between a C & D in the US)
A button about 1" in diameter (I guess if your button is smaller you could just make the button hole smaller too)
All these instructions are in UK terms.
Chain 11
sc in 2nd chain from hook, work 9 more sc to end of chain (10 stitches)
turn over, chain 1, sc in 2nd stitch then sc 9 to end (check you've still got 10 stitches!)
Now you are going to make the button hole:
work 3 sc
chain 4
work sc into 5th stitch along
work 2 more sc to end
continue with another 16 rows of sc. (I like to count my stitches at the end of each row because I find it very easy to gain or loose them as I go. Crocheting in circles is much easier!)
Fasten off
Sew a button on - you're done!

To make the stripy one I just changed colour every 2 rows. I love it but those ends were a pain to sew in!

To make the Red and Black one, just sc all the way round the edge in a contrast colour, doing 3 in the same stitch at each corner. Obviously this one comes out a bit bigger but not much. I love this cute little button.