Wacom Movink drawing tablet peeking out of a custom made tablet sleeve made of crocheted granny squares with white daisies and alternating green and purple backgrounds.

Crochet Tablet Sleeve – Daisy / Granny Squares

I got a Wacom Movink drawing tablet for Christmas and while I’m wow-ed by the quality, the lightweight design, and surprising thinness of the device, I can’t help but shake the feel that it is delicate and easy-to-break, even though I think the product construction and material are definitely durable and high quality. It’s just me. A mental association with the size + weight in my hands.

I was going to buy Wacom’s cover (currently ~$50 on their site), but didn’t like that it didn’t include a way to store the pen or USB-C cable…. The Movink is too new (and perhaps too niche) to have 3rd party tablet cases I could get instead… so rather than spending hours trying to find a generic one that might be compatible with the Movink AND keep its slim footprint (because this will have to be packed alongside a laptop), I decided… why not make one?

I also got a giant bag of yarn for Christmas… a 4-ply acrylic/cotton blend in assorted pastel colors. And I’ve been getting in to crochet as a hobby lately. So decided to try making a variation on the Granny Square I’ve been seeing online and sew them together into a sleeve.

The front of a made tablet sleeve for a Wacom Movink made of 15 granny squares with white daisies in the middle and alternating green and purple backgrounds. Each square is joined using pink yarn in a slightly raised slip stitch.
15 granny squares with daisy pattern inside for each side. Joined together with a raised slip stitch.

I am SO happy with how this turned out…! Though… I still haven’t solved for the pen and cable storage issue yet. And the finished product is surprisingly heavier than I expected. Lol… it’s probably better to just buy the official Wacom one, but hey! Sometimes it’s nice to have something custom and personal to yourself! Especially when you like the result. XD

Tablet sleeve made of 30 joined granny squares, 15 on each side. The squares have a daisy pattern in white with pink centers and backgrounds in alternating green and purple. They are sewn together with pink yarn. 2 yarn skeins in pink and green sit beside the tablet sleeve, along with a small ball of white yarn.
Turns out 3 granny squares across was a perfect fit for my new tablet.

Pattern Info

I don’t think I’ll be sharing any official pattern for this since it was pretty ad-hoc and just combining stuff I learned on others’ sites. But here are the links I found most valuable when putting this together.

Daisy Granny Squares: Hobbi Granny Square – Daisy
I modded the center to be a simple double-crochet magic ring instead of the star-type pattern they provide. There are many other flower-center tutorials online that have variant techniques, but this is simply the one I found first.

Slip Stitch Join: Maisie and Ruth – Flat Slip Stitch Seam
It’s a common joining technique, but I like her step-by-step images that helped me understand how to complete the stitch.

EDIT: Jan 6, 2025

I added the loops for cable and pen attachments.

Close up of a bundled USB C cable and a tablet pen attached to a crocheted tablet sleeve with 4 simple strips of single crochets along the border lines in pink
Ad hoc crochet-ing is fine as long as you’re consistent about it, or so I tell myself. XD

I had this whole idea to make a whole pen sleeve but found it too difficult to sew/crochet onto a granny square with its stitches’ changing angles, but found making these little loops along the joining seems worked wonderfully.

The loops are made with single chains connected the joining seam in the same pink yarn, followed by single crochets wrapping around them on both ends… it was honestly ad-hoc, but consistent so it came out nicely.

What I like is that I can keep the cable plugged into the tablet and just wrap the end into this holder and carry it off!

Top view of crocheted table sleeve with cable and pen attached by 4 little loops crocheted onto the joining seam in pink yarn. One of the cable's ends is plugged into the tablet within the sleeve which the rest sits on top of the sleeve in a folded coil constrained by the new loops
The cable can stay plugged into the tablet, making taking it out to use even quicker and more painless.

Anyways, that’s it for now. I tested this “in the field” yesterday and it was so nice to have. I did remove the velcro cable tie that came included with the Movink because it was getting caught in the loops. But otherwise this setup is going to make travel with the tablet so much easier.

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