Hey, I’m back. My physical and emotional energy for the last few weeks has been consumed by the illness and death of a family member. More about that later, I’m still sorting…
I haven’t blogged for awhile, but I have been knitting. I’ve been obsessively knitting dishcloths – for all the reasons you’d expect, they’re simple, portable, mindless, quick and immeasurably therapeutic. Plus useful. As I frequently seem to do, I gave away most of my output before photographing them. I’ve done a feather and fan cloth, which I gave to my mother-in-law, a Papillon cloth, gifted to my sister-in-law and a little shells pattern cloth foisted on my sister. There are also several plain vanilla garter stitch cloths with yarnovers at the beginning of each row. I usually use Lily Sugar ‘n Cream because it’s cheap and available even in the variety stores in the small towns near where I live. Right there next to the Red Heart Super Saver squeaky stuff. This yarn fades with a passion and shrinks some, but wears like iron and I really enjoy using my stash of Sugar ‘n Cream dishcloths even if the original color is indistinguishable. But I’ve branched out and made a couple cloths from some leftover Mission Falls 1824 Cotton. I’m looking forward to using them as facecloths just for me and observing how they wash and wear compared to the Lily cotton.
The vomit-colored cloth on the left is Lily cotton – I promise it doesn’t look that bad in real life. The sagey green cloth is the Mission Falls.
