house warming dish cloths
Finished
August 15, 2013
September 6, 2013

house warming dish cloths

Project info
Slip Stitch Dishtowels by Purl Soho
Knitting
CleaningTowel
Rhea
Needles & yarn
Tahki Yarns Cotton Classic
4 skeins = 432.0 yards (395.0 meters), 200 grams
Monarch Knitting in Pacific Grove, California
Notes

I am using the stitch pattern and edging of this pattern, but making them dish cloth or face cloth size. On the first one I cast on 31 (multiple of 4, plus 3). It is a little small. On the second one I cast on 39 and it is a better size.

I decided not to make the loops for hanging them up, since they are dish cloths, but I am doing the attached i-cord edging. The fabric is wonderfully spongy!

The colors are dark brown, tan, red and orange. So far I have used only a two color pattern (Three and One Tweed), but I plan to make at least one of each of the patterns for a total of about 5 cloths.

The three color pattern (Triple L Tweed) is coming along. I cast on 37 stitches (multiple of three, plus 1) for a dishcloth size.

For the fifth dishcloth I decided to use all four colors so I extended the Triple L to make it quadruple (knit 3, sl 1, instead of knit 2, sl 1, with the slip stitches moving to the right as the rows progress. Very pretty! However, 4 balls of yarn make a pretty big tangle!

Four dishcloths have their i-cord edging. I’m not completely sure I did it correctly. I did the fifth one’s edging with crochet. I wouldn’t do all this fiddling and weaving in of ends for someone if I didn’t really like them! On the other hand, playing with the colors was fun!

I was able to make four more dishcloths from the yarn I had. Nine dishcloths from 4 skeins of yarn.

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September 6, 2013
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by Tahki Yarns
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100% Cotton
108 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: August 19, 2013
  • Finished: September 6, 2013
  • Updated: March 31, 2014
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