Headphone Cozy

Sweetie is a musician, and wears his headphones while he composes. His favorite Sennheiser headphones still worked perfectly, but the plastic over the foam earpieces was frayed and falling apart. It was irritating his ears. Sennheiser headphones aren't inexpensive, so I offered to make a soft knit cover for the earpieces. And I did.

I used black cotton Peaches and Cream yarn. For each cozy I cast 30 stitches on to size 2 needles, and did 8 rows of k1 p1 ribbing. Rather than binding off I ran the yarn through the loops and pulled it to the right size. I then stitched 3/4 of the side seam using that same yarn. I placed the cozy on the earpiece and finished stitching the side seam with the wire to the earpiece coming out through the seam. I tied off the yarn. Then I took the loose yarn from the casting on of stitches and ran it through the first row of stitches, as if I was picking up stitches. I pulled this yarn snugly to hold the earpiece in position and tied it off. I did it all again for the second earpiece.