Passport Cover!

Just before all this covid situation, I travelled to Brazil so I knitted this passport cover to to have both the normal passport and the international vaccination passport together! I enjoyed a lot this project since it is an eassy and very usefull project to be knitted very fast and, once you're back home, you can wash it in the washing machine along with the rest of your clothes!

To knit this project you will need:

• Yarn: less than 1 ball yarn. I used 100% recycled cotton yarn, fingering or sport, indicated to use it with 3.00 mm needles.
• Knitting needles of 3.00 mm
• Auxiliar needle
• 1 wool needle
• 1 meter of contrast yarn (leftover yarn from other projects can be used, the important thing is that it is of a color that contrasts with the color with which we will weave the passport cover).

Cast-on 62 stitches. You can do it using the cast-on technique you like the most.

This cover is done by knitting two pieces exactly the same and joining them at the end. The technique I used is the "two-needle tubular knitting technique", knitted repeating the following steps until the last stich is moved to the right needle:

1. Knit the first stitch
2. Put the yarn in front of your work
3. Slip one purl-wise
4. Put the yarn in back of work again
5. Knit the next stitch

You can see how to do this in the attached video. This process has to be repeated 58 times so you will have 29 rows in each side of the knitted piece.

Knit the first stitch and slip the second one into the auxiliar needle. Knit the third stitch so this will be moved next to the first stitch you knitted. Now that we have two stitches in the front needle, cast them off. Move the 4th stitch to the auxiliar needle and knit and cast off the next one. Keep doing the same until both sides of the piece are separated and one of them is casted-off.

Resume the stitches in the auxiliar needle and work 8 more rows in flat weaving, this means, when you face the front side of the cover, knit all stitches, and when you face the inside of the cover purl all stitches. After repeat 1 row knitted, 1 row purled until you have a total of 8 rows (including the knitted ones and the purled ones), cast off all stitches using the contrast yarn to clearly differentiate the stitches of the main body of the project and the closing with the discarding thread.

REPEAT ALL THE PREVIOS STEPS UNTIL YOU GET TWO PIECES EXACTLY THE SAME!!!

In a table, face both knitted parts so that the outside of the cover faces the table and you can see the inside of the cover (as if it were open like a book). Then, using your sewing needle and a threat of your main yarn, join them using the invisible seam technique when knitting stockinette stitch. You can see this technique in the following link (it is in Spanish but audio is no needed; in addition you can activate the subtitles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdq5Agod49o

Hide the leftover strands and enjoy your passport cover! You can easily machine wash it after each trip and you can knit as many as you want to be gifted to your most traveling friends and family!

EXTRA: To personalize your cover the most, you can embroider something in the outside side! Anyway, enjoy it and share it in your instagram! You can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/skrbj/?hl=es