Hot water bottle cover with cable design and ruffle around the neck.

The piece is worked bottom up in the round on circular needles. The zipper is sewn at the bottom for easy insert of the hot water bottle. Alternative finishing: you may join the bottom edge with mattress stitch, instead of sewing in the zipper. In this case it will be more difficult to insert the hot water bottle: you will have to roll it in a tube and insert it through the neck of the cover.

The pattern includes charts and written instructions.

Finished Size: 20 cm / 8” wide, 27 cm / 10.5” high (from the bottom to the neck).

Yarn: Lana Grossa Cool Wool Big Vintage (100% Merino wool, 120 m (131 yds)/50 g (1.76 oz)), colour 7167 Petrol or 7164 Burgundy, 95 g / 228 m / 249 yds for each cover.

Needles: 4.5 mm (US size 7) circular knitting needles, 40 cm 15” long; 4.5 mm (US size 7) in your favourite style for knitting in the round of small diameter (short circular needles, long circular needles for magic loop or double pointed needles).
Adjust the needle size to obtain gauge.

Notions: 18 cm / 7” invisible zipper, sewing needle and thread matching the colour of the yarn, 6 stitch markers, cable needle, yarn needle.

Gauge: 21 sts and 29 rows to 10 cm (4”) in Stockinette stitch, using 4.5 mm (US size 7) needles; 25 sts and 29 rows to 10 cm (4”) in main pattern, measured over the central part, using 4.5 mm (US size 7) needles.

Techniques used:
Knitting in the round
Knitting in the round of small diameter
Casting on
Binding off
Knitting
Knitting through back loop
Purling
Cable knitting
Increases
Decreases
Sewing in a zipper or mattress stitch (depending on the chosen finishing method)