Dishclothes

Over the holidays, I gave away my complete stash of hand knit dishclothes.  All of them!

Which is okay.

It is not like I knit as many as my mother knit, when she was in her dishcloth knitting heyday.  I didn’t have stacks and stacks.

And I gave them to those I wanted to give them to.  I gave them willingly. It wasn't forced giving.

But the fact remained…I was out!  So while my primary goal of the new year is to quilt that third grandbebe quilt, I really felt the need to knit a few dishclothes.

Because one never know when one might have a dishcloth emergency.  Someone might need one RIGHT AWAY, and as quick as they are to knit?  It still takes me two to two and a half hours from start to finish.

That’s a long time in the face of a dishcloth emergency.  I mean…people might die, wars could be lost, disaster could reign in two hours for want of a dishcloth.

Anyway.  Since the owls, I have been knitting with nothing but dishcloth cotton.

 It is a functional yarn, certainly.  And I have been using from my stash, which is good.  Unfortunately, my dishcloth cotton isn’t ‘itemized’ in my stash.  It’s more of a ‘lump sum’, so I am not getting to eliminate from my ‘total yardage’ (which is actuallytotal mileage) (Don't judge me!)  My dishcloth cotton now fits tote-ally into a small tote. Ar-Ar-Ar...

And I have a stash of a stack of dishclothes…against any and all emergencies!

The pattern I follow: Four Corners by Abigail – 1870 Pearl (Ravelry link)

(Using a provisional cast-on, short rows, and a kitchener finish, it’s a bit more than mindless dishcloth knitting.)