Here’s a washcloth, dishcloth or tea towel to knit when you’d rather not be washing the dishes. Create fabulously sweary yet classic embossed cloths using simple knit/purl combinations. Using a script font for the sweary bits keeps the design on the subtle side - rather like cursing under your breath.

Each wash or dishcloth takes almost exactly one 120 yd ball of ubiquitous, durable, affordable worsted cotton. The tea towel will take more than one ball, but not more than 2 balls.

Pattern Notes:

1. Terms to know: pm is place marker, ws is wrong side, rs is right side.
2. I have good results beginning a second ball of yarn (if needed) at one of the markers between the border and chart, rather than at the very edge. This gives a neater finish when hiding the ends.
3. The chart (even:rs/odd:ws) will run into the garter border at the edges in two different places. It’s fine.
4. Gauge and needle size aren’t important, but I wouldn’t go higher than an eight. Bigger isn’t always better.
5. It might help to place stitch markers at 10 stitch intervals within the chart, in addition to markers for the borders at 5 stitches from each edge.