Wine Bottle & Glass Dishcloth

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Here's a dishcloth with a wine bottle & wine glass pattern on it. It is one of Rainy K's patterns. This one is also slightly trapezoidal like my other dishcloths, except that it is wider at the bottom instead of the top because this dishcloth was knitted from the top down instead of bottom up.

I enjoyed working on this pattern. I'm going to knit a few more dishcloths that "go" together. So there will be this one, one of just a wine bottle, one of just a wine glass, and one of grapes. I'm thinking purple yarn for the grapes; I'll need to pick up some purple cotton yarn for this. Not sure what color to use for the wine glass or wine bottle. What would you use? I thought it would be boring to use the same color yarn is this dishcloth ... but the other yarn colors I have are pink variegated (as you have seen in my three other pink dishcloths), pine green, light blue, and this wine color.

This dischloth is also more rectangular than square. It makes me wonder how people knit a bunch of different squares and then manage to sew them all together to make an afghan. I would imagine it very challenging if all the squares were not the same size.

Yarn: Lily Sugar & Cream, Wine color
Needles: 4.5mm - US7

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Christmas Tree Dishcloth

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Here's my first non-pink dishcloth. :) I hadn't thought about which side would be the front, so I weaved in the ends on the side where the Christmas tree pattern is knit. In retrospect, I probably should have done it the other way around, by weaving in the ends on the side where the tree is purl. You can see the ends in the picture above because I haven't snipped them off yet. I dunno, what do you think? Should the pattern be the purl side or the knit side? This is a pattern from Purple Duckie. This dishcloth, like my Spring Butterflies cloth, is also very slightly trapezoidal. Of course nobody but myself would probably notice it. I think my next Christmas themed dishcloth will be Melissa's reindeer. This pattern was easy to knit with it's big section of purls and knits, rather than having to alternate purls/knits a gazillion times throughout a row. It's just a matter of counting.

Yarn: Lily Sugar & Cream, Dark Pine color
Needles: 4.5 mm - US 7

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Spring Butterflies Dishcloth

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Yes, it's another dishcloth with the same pink/white variegated yarn. In fact, it's my third one in this yarn. But not to worry, I have picked up some cotton yarn in other colors and will be knitting up something non-pink before the next Ice Age.

This Spring Butterflies pattern doesn't seem to show up very well with a variegated yarn. I think it would look much better in a solid color. I'll have to try it again using a solid and see how it compares. I also want to figure out how to get the edge to stop curling so much. This one is also very slightly trapezoidal, the top edge is just a little wider than the cast-on bottom edge. I guess my tension changed as I knitted, or it had something to do with casting off. I also need to figure out a new way to cast-on, as my cast-on edge never matches my cast-off edge. I'm currently using a cable cast-on. I wonder what other cast-on method I should try?

Yarn: Lily Sugar & Cream in Strawberry Color (I think)
Needles: 4.5mm - US7

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Wave Pool dishcloth

This Wave Pool dishcloth is my second knitted dishcloth. I managed to knit this up while my little girl was napping, while my mom watched her, and a bit during the evening. It's in the same pink yarn that I used for my Grandmother's Favorite dishcloth because I'm still working on that cone of yarn. I think this Wave Pool dishcloth would look nice in blue or a blue variegated yarn. I don't have any on hand so will have to get some to try it out sometime. I really need to get more of this cotton yarn. We can't have everything in pink, can we?

Yarn: Lily Sugar & Cream, Strawberry Color (I think)
Needles: 4.5mm - US7

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Branching Out in Pink

I haven't knitted much at all this year, so much for New Years resolutions! I cannot knit anywhere near by little girl cuz she will come up to me wanting to pull on the yarn or needles. Actually, she pulls on anything I'm holding, reading, using, etc...

I made this Branching Out scarf to match the roll brim hat I made a while back. It's been sitting around and I only just got around to posting a photo. Both the scarf & hat use the same yarn and color. It took me many months to complete this since I didn't have much time to devote to knitting. The picture above shows the scarf unblocked. I was trying to decide whether I should block it, then decided not to do it. Did I really want the scarf to get any wider than it already is? Besides, blocking is so tedious. The scarf is about 6.5 inches (~17 cm) wide and 38.5 inches (~100 cm) long... perfect length for the recipient.

The darker pink thing underneath the scarf is Marisa's Baby Blanket, which was I completed in Jan or Feb 2005. I knitted this scarf on the short side because the person who will wear it prefers it short. She doesn't want long dangling tails that get in the way. I really like this yarn, I wish I bought more of it. And I think DK is my favorite yarn weight right now. I was trying to knit another scarf using Baby Silk (fingerling weight) ... it just didn't feel/drape right and the pattern didn't really show through well ... maybe I just need to start it over using different needles.

Yarn: Cleckheaton Country 8 Ply DK superwash wool, Pale Iris color. 2 balls.
Needles: 5mm - US8

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