When I last showed you the Less-Crazy Phone Cozy I'd just completed the phone cozy part.  But I also want to have a zippered part for money, ID, etc.

So I knit a little bridge, where I'll be attaching the strap, and then I knit the zippered pouch part.  Taking what I learned about edges and crochet steeks, I made both sides an extra 2 stitches long.

There's a trick to crochet steeks, which is choosing the crochet hook size.  Most instructions I found said something like "use a hook a couple sizes smaller than the knitting needles you are using."  Well, that's absolutely NO help.  If you know anything about me, you know that's just unacceptable.  There must be some equation or something, right?

I tried using the smallest hook that would work with the worsted weight cotton.  But it wasn't small enough.  If the crochet stitches are too big, your knit edges get stretched out and are much taller than the rest of the knitting.

So I tried using the same size hook, but making two single crochet stitches together (technical term: sc2tog).  Like this ...

Put your hook into a stitch (pictured above), yarn over, pull through a loop.

Put your hook into the next stitch (pictured above), yarn over, pull through a loop (pictured below).

Now you have three loops on the hook.  Yarn over and pull through all three loops to complete the two single crochet stitches together (pictured below).



Here's the outside of the zippered pouch.

Here's the inside of the zippered pouch.

Next time we see the pouch, I'll be cutting my knitting again. Snip snip snip!