Sometimes I can't believe my good luck when thrifting. I had come across a great link www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/dishcloths.php which gave loads of free patterns for dishcloths and / or facecloths - apples, pears, maps of various countries, stars, dolphins, squirrels - you name it and someone had kindly posted a link to a dishcloth / facecloth pattern with it on. I haven't long got back into knitting after a break of quite some years and I'm still finding my feet, so these patterns seemed the ideal small project to have a go at. After knitting a few cotton facecloths I fancied having a go at doing a dishcloth, but wanted to use the proper dishcloth cotton, which can be washed at high temperatures.
Lo and behold, a few weeks ago I came across three balls of dishcloth cotton in the yarn basket at my local charity shop. I quickly nabbed them and on the way home started to think that I could make up my own pattern on a dishcloth - I mean how hard could it be? The answer - a darn sight harder than I had envisaged. The first design looked great on paper but not so good when knitted up. That attempt was frogged very quickly. Another go with the graph paper - still not good 'in the flesh'. Finally, at the third attempt I cracked it - the knife, fork and spoon dishcloth in my own unique design. These are great little projects to work on and I've really got into producing them. I'm hoping to build up a bit of a stock for some craft fairs later in the year but in the meantime there are a couple in my etsy shop.
Apologies once again for the miniature size of my photos - if you click on them you can get a bigger image. I'll endeavour to work out how to post a bigger photo over the weekend. If anyone knows how I do this in a basic Typepad package I'd be really grateful if they could let me know.
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