Saturday, July 10, 2010

Knitting in Envy

The whole time I was working on Dean and Katy's wedding gift, a little green monster was growing inside of me. I only have one hand knit dishcloth, and I wanted more. I decided to keep up the momentum I had created with their kitchen set and stock my own kitchen.

Patterns: Ballband Dishcloth from Mason Dixon Knitting, Lizard Ridge Dishcloth (Rav Link), and Circle Cloth
Yarn: Lion Cotton Yarn in Sunflower and Navy
Needles:US 7 (4.5 mm) and US 9 (5.5 mm)
Notes: Hubby picked out these colors. He swears that he didn't choose them because they were his high school colors. Generally I liked them because they match the beautiful vase we picked up on our honeymoon in Spain, but there were times when I would look down at the knitting in my lap and felt like I was cheering for Michigan.

I made two of every pattern and alternated the color set up. One of the circle dishcloths did not make it into the photos, because I have been loving these so much they haven't all been clean at once. I had bought 4 balls of yarn from the Lion Brand Studio, but all 6 of these cloths came from just one ball of each color.

I didn't make any adjustments or changes to any of the patterns, the only note I have is that, the circle cloths are a bit smaller than the others. They could use an extra column and an extra row, but I would have needed my other two balls of yarn to make that happen.

4 comments:

hakucho said...

Love all your dishcloths; a very lovely set for a wedding gift. I am especially fond of the circle cloth ;)

happy knitting :)

Amanda D Allen said...

Thank you very much Hakucho. If I were going to make the circle cloth as a gift, I would make it bigger so it matched the others better.

Happy Knitting!

Megan said...

Love Love Love all your dishcloths!! I'm making the circle cloths now, and cannot wait to move onto the lizard cloth!! Thanks for the great ideas!!

Amanda D Allen said...

Thanks Megan! The lizard cloths are great scrubbers. You are going to love them.