Round Knitted Dishcloths

 Diana Sullivan from Austin, Texas is a fabulous knitting machine tutorial maker.  I have learned so much from her.  Last year or the year before she published a Handknit Round Dishcloth pattern book.  There are eleven different cloths.  Yesterday I knit one and today I knit another one.

Here is one of them:

This cloth is two strands of I Love This Cotton held together to make a cloth for a new missionary.  The cloth might go to Argentina…

It was a joy to make this cloth for a beloved family member.  Every stitch was formed with love and a prayer in my heart for safety and success.

Newest Knitting Completion: Diana Sullivan Citrus Washcloth/Dishcloth

 Knitting a dishcloth or washcloth is very enjoyable.  The projects are usually one or two days in the making.  They are very useful.  They look pretty nice.

Diana Sullivan has just published a book with 11 knitted dishcloths.   I have been greatly blessed by Diana's YouTube videos covering many machine knitting projects.  I like to give back when I can and this time I could.  

This is her Citrus cloth.  I really like the pattern and I like the way it turned out in this variegated cotton yarn.

Knitting Today: Round Dishcloth

Recently I have been using up the cotton worsted weight yarn that I have.  Today I spent the day coughing, napping, and finally,(after making and eating some chicken soup) knitting a little.

The cloth project I made today was called the Peppermint Cloth.   The pattern calls for size 6 needles and casting on 20 stitches.  In theory it knits up about 8 1/2 inches across.  Mine knit up at 11 inches across.

The pattern was a good starting place but I needed to make a couple of changes to make it work for me.

Where the pattern called for slipping one purlwise then putting the yarn to the front, I changed it to putting yarn to the front and THEN slipping one purlwise.  It worked much more smoothly for me.

The other place where I made changes was when the pattern changed colors and then called for knitting two rows.  The change I made was:  after finishing the last short row, I knit all the way from the outer edge to the inner edge of the circle with the previous yarn, then pick up the new yarn and knit one row all the way across to the outer edge of the circle.  At this point start back knitting the short rows.

Peppermint Cloth....i.e. round cloth

Knitting Today: Three Baby Wash Cloths

Several new babies have been born recently and my aim to knit them each a washcloth has fallen by the wayside.  Today was a rather dreary, rainy, drizzle-y day which had no outside commitments so I sat in our nice chocolate brown recliner with my size 4 (or 6) knitting needles and some cotton yarn and went to town on these cloths.

The first one finished was the round cloth. I rather like the looks of this one.

 It came out rather large so the next time I make it for a baby, I think I will renovate the pattern somewhat...a little smaller border and smaller inner circle.  We shall see.

The next two washcloths were for preemie twin boys.  They started out to be double moss stitch cloths, but ended up straight moss stitch...it is easier for me to keep track with a very simple stitch!  I think they came out rather well.  The striped one is really attractive though the photography does not make that happen....

None of these have been blocked, and it shows