Re: Knitting: My head just exploded!

I knit. started as a child. Sweaters, hats, scarves (not so many now that we are in the South). Each grandchild got a handknit blanket and at last one outfit - earlier babies got more than later ones,I figured they could be handed down.

I don't just knit, I have to make something useful. the prez of our local Weavers and Spinners Guild always says I am project oriented, whereas most members are process oriented. Personally, I cannot see spinning or weaving just for the sake of it, and the only reason to knit dishcloths is to practice pattern stitching.

(When I lived in the college town, several of the faculty women used to say "Oh, Olwyn, you're so *practical". I generally retorted that it was a good job *somebody* was.)

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I knit since my 5th year === thus i knit for 60 years never stopped , and i sometimes think that my knitted projrcts could already cover at least one continent. I knit /crochet for family friend and me ,,,, in every knitted item whether art or craft i put a little of my heart. mirjam

I primarily knit sweaters for me and scarves for gifts or sale. But the primary reason to knit dishcloths is to USE them. All the better, though, if I can get someone else to knit them and gift them to me.

Elizabeth

I primarily knit sweaters for me and scarves for gifts or sale. But the primary reason to knit dishcloths is to USE them. All the better, though, if I can get someone else to knit them and gift them to me.

Elizabeth

I knit, but not very well. I know that I am a process oriented person (boring old world it would be if we were all alike), and I have sometimes bought an odd ball or two of strange yarn and made a scarf just to see how it looks knit up. And I knit washclothes too, as I find the cotton, nicely softened, is excellent for washing my face, and in garter stitch they were also the perfect texture for gently cleaning Emma's frequently infected ears. Somewhere I have a bathmitt pattern, which I think will be very spa knitted up in cotton. Dawne

Kitchen Cotton by Lionbrand, or Peaches and Cream or Sugar and Cream. Any of those three work great. I believe they take a #5 needle, but it will say on the label and most labels come with a dishcloth pattern or you can go to knitty.com or just google for dish cloth patterns. I was never a fan until a friend of my MIL started sending them to me. When MIL passed away, I grabbed as many as I could. Love them.

I knit. And I forgot to take a picture of the jersey I made for my nephew, so you all could see it.

Catherine

I know so many people that knit dishcloths! One of my stitching pupils spent the "after class" time convincing me to start doing it - she knits them out of cotton and uses them - says they're fabulous. Who knew!

Ellice

I wouldn't dare put them out! DH is astonishingly hard on dishcloths - especially when scrubbing somehing with BarKeepers Friend. He can reduce them to shreds within a week. Or, alternatively, he scrubs the bottom of the pan with them, and they, in turn, become permanently black and have to be discarded. I'm just so glad that he helps with the kp that I simply buy the dishcloths in the discount store and consider them as semi-disposable.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I agree that some people can be very hard on dishclothes. I must'nt be, as I have had some standard old checked things for years. I still prefer to use the knitted cotton things as face/body scrubs for myself and critters.

Dawne

I suspect that the knitted ones would stand up to his abuse better than the store bought ones.

Elizabeth

Sadly, no. I tried one once, knit out of "dishcloth cotton". Poor thing died very young.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

That's what I was thinking, the ones the locals knit here are virtually indestructible. They usually knit them diamond shaped, so to speak, starting with a stitch, increasing then eventually decreasing.

I was just astounded with this particular pupil - who is a busy opthmalogist

- and she takes time to do these. Really likes them - was quite persuasive in convincing me - and of course we shop at the seme LKS. She really uses them. I do like the idea for faces and the furface - sounds good to me.

Ellice

That's the pattern I was given, doing them in a stranded cotton yarn.

Ellice

Just for variety I have done them in a square, with whatever pattern I want to play with....seed stitch, basket stitch etc..some folk even use them as washable "doily's".

Gillian