in the first stages of wedding planning, i bought a ton of wedding magazines – the most fabulous of which was martha stewart weddings. we weren’t planning on having a ring bearer, but when i saw this, i had to knit one. and then find a kid to be the ring bearer. martha stewart’s version:
it seemed easy enough to make, so after much searching, i found some chunky lion brand wool-ease in white and got to work. it didn’t take me long to knit a rectangle in stockinette stitch on fairly big needles – they were thirteens, i think. once the rectangle was bound off, i made and stuffed a little white felt pillow. i folded the rectangle over it and sewed up two sides. then, i flipped the cover right side out and top stitched the rest of it closed. after that i added some ribbon in the near-center, tied some fake rings on, and voila:
