Having sold a couple of my cotton dish cloths on etsy - thank you Lesley from Dallas for your purchase, I've been inspired to have a go at knitting some face cloths using Blue Sky Organic Cotton. This is the most beautiful yarn to work with, soft and tactile, and it washes and wears incredibly well. I treated myself to a couple of balls of this yarn when I went to Loop in Islington, after I had been to the Country Living Fair in March.
The colours are limited to those which naturally occur in the growing process so the yarn is particularly pure, having not been bleached or dyed at all. This makes it an ideal yarn for sensitive skins - hence the face cloths. I made a very simple one a couple of months ago for my partner, who has a tendency to suffer from eczema. He reported that it was wonderfully soft on his skin, and I can report that it has washed and worn very well.
I wanted to have a go at designing a pattern and thought a pair of lips would be appropriate for a face cloth.
I'm not sure this has been entirely successful - a bit too much like Mick Jagger's lips for my liking, but after many many attempts I'm going to say this is as good as it gets.
The stripy face cloth in the top picture is my favourite and was a happy accident when I found that I didn't have enough of the paler shade to make a whole flannel, so I decided to make it stripy like the traditional face cloths I remember from my childhood. They are both up for sale in my etsy shop.
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