You can add a pocket to almost
anything you knit—a sweater, a coat,
a vest, or even a scarf. Patch pockets
are the easiest to make. You just
knit a square or rectangle to the size
you want and sew it on to your
knitting. Or you can pick up the
stitches from your knitting and knit
the patch pocket directly on. Inset
pockets are a little more challenging,
but if you know how to bind off,
you can make those, too.
To attach a patch pocket, you need to first knit and steam block (see page 139)
the pocket you want to sew on. (The sample here is a 4-inchsquare.) You also
need a tapestry needle, straight pins, and yarn to sew the pocket.
1 Pin the pocket in place exactly where you want it to be. Thread a tapestry
needle as you would to sew your knitting together, leaving a 6-inchtail
coming out one side of the eye.
2 Insert the tapestry needle from back to front through both the knitting and
the upper-right corner of the pocket. Loop the yarn around from front to
back to front once more to reinforce the corner.
How to Attach a Patch PocketMake
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3 Sew on the pocket, using the overcast stitch you used to reinforce
buttonholes on page 164, as shown, ending at the upper-left corner.
Reinforce the corner as in step 2, ending with the needle on the wrong side.
4 Weave in the loose ends.