04.04.07
Knit Dish Cloths
Where has all my crafting gone? I am in the midst of knitting two nautical sweaters for May/June twins, but am hung up on gauge problems and have yet to find more of the yarn I need. I am thinking of scraping it and getting a new stash alltogether!
In the mean time, I have a lot of cotton and so I’ve decided to add some home-made love to the everyday by making knit dishrags and towels for the kitchen. Mason Dixon Knitting has inspired me with this post, which includes a free pattern for a 9-square dishrag. I made up my own pattern, however, since I needed to use a little less brain power to make my first dishcloth on the morning commute.
Cast 51 stitches onto size 4 straight needles. Rows 1-10: moss stitch (K1,P1,K1 to the end). Rows 11-20: stockinette stitch with moss stitch border (row 11: moss stitch for 8 stitches, K35, moss stitch for 8 stitches, row 12: same, but P35 instead of K35). Rows 21-40: odd rows: moss stitch for 8 stitches, K8, moss stitch for 18 stitches, K8, moss stitch for 8; even rows: same but P8 each time instead of K8. Rows 41-50: stockinette stitch with moss stitch border. Rows 51-60: moss stitch. Cast off.
*EDIT* I just found a picture of a hexagonal dishrag! I must make one! Craft Lover’s blog has instructions on how to make a knit hexagon.
Lillian said,
April 4, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for quoting my page to your blog, I love to share this with all the knitters .
by the way, how do you change your theme template ??
Do you need to pay extra for the change?
(I didn’t see this in the theme templates (in Wordpress)
rachel said,
April 6, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Thanks for your comment, Lillian!
I am using Wordpress Beta (I think?!) - it’s the one that is on wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com. They have pretty cool templates (for free, as far as I know - my IT husband helped me with the initial set-up), and I’m using this one until I come up with my “custom” one. Ah, another project to tackle…
Lillian said,
April 7, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Hey, you are so lucky to have an IT husband who can install that new version !! I didn’t. And my head got BIGGER when I saw the ‘installation instruction” , I gave up. I will stay with my original design. (too bad, I really love yours. ha)