See below for errata.

Striped hot water bottle in DK yarn, featured on front of Let’s Knit! Magazine 39, February 2011. A slipover cover or fitted bag in stockinet with ribbed collar. It has a pocket for a lavender bag. The patterns states that it’s suitable for beginner knitters.

For the stripes as pictured in the magazine, 6 balls of the recommended yarn are needed: 50g of the main colour and a third of a 50g ball in each of the other five colours (the completed cosy weighs ca.130g according to pattern).

Also required: fabric for the lavender bag; dried lavender or toy stuffing and lavender oil; sewing machine or needle and thread for making the lavender bag; darning needle or bodkin for sewing up the HWB cover. There is no gauge, stitch diagram or charts.

Construction: The bottle cover itself is knitted in one piece: Cast on at front top; knit down front rib of neck, down front body of cover, round bottom of cover, up back of cover, up back of ribbed neck, cast off at back top. The sides are then seamed. This means that the bottle is to be inserted via the top cuff opening, necessitating a very loose cast-on and cast-off.

ERRATA:
Page 31, column 3, line 8 should be “Two rows (A)” (not “Four rows (A)”).
Explanation: this refers to the top red stripe on the example in the photo, and the red stripe should be the same width on front and back of the bottle cover.