How to knit a giant Lego brick doorstop

Step 5 The knobs

To make it a proper Lego brick it needed 8 knobs.  These were made from soft drinks lids - the boys were allowed to drink extra coke so I had enough red lids!  I chose to use the same colour as the yarn to reduce show through.

Top cover each knob I knitted a piece as follows:

cast on 8
row 1 - knit 8
row 2 - purl 8
row 3 - inc 1 in 1st stitch, knit 6, inc 1 in last stitch (10 stitches)
row 4 - purl 10
row 5 - inc 1 in 1st stitch, knit 8, inc 1 in last stitch (12 stitches)
row 6 - purl 12
row 7 - knit 12
row 8 - purl 12
row 9 - knit 12
row 10 - purl 12
row 11 - k2tog, knit 8, k2tog
row 12 - purl 10
row 13 - k2tog, knit 6, k2tog
row 14 - purl 8
row 15 - cast off remaining stitches, leave a long tail for gathering and sewing to the brick

Using the big needle sew a running stitch around the edge of the piece and pull up to gather around the lid.  Use the remaining tail to sew the knob to the top of the brick.