knitting dish towels

knitting dish towels
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Oh it has been too long since I last up dated this blog. Always promising my self that I would photograph my work and post it at the end of each day.  Oh but the end of those days never come.  So I  made my self take a few quick shots of the dish cloths that I am currently working on as gifts.  My mother is out of dish cloths and my friend recently has an aniversery so I thought that these little things would be great.  I like working the details in them to show off texture. It is so nice to receive something that someone made.  The effort and thought that goes into them is the true gift.  Now for those of you that are wondering where I got the pattern it was found in July 2008 issue of Creative Knitting on page 63.   I have found that the solid color works well with showing off the diamond pattern but you can use the varied colors as well.  This is a skill level easy but be aware that the pattern changes from row to row and you must keep an accurate accounting (as always when working a pattern) of where you are.  I usually don't have an issue and can tell by looking where I am but this one on the fist one that I did left me perplexed.  Could be that I have a 14 year old always wanting to talk or that my 8 year old needs me to hear about the latest game that they won or that dinner needed to be fixed sooner rather than later.  What ever the reason was I really had to keep up with the count this time.  But it turned out just great.  On one of these little jobbers I made it just a size bigger meaning that I repeated it just one more time adding the extra bit.  I like a bit more towel when I am wiping up the counters or cleaning something.  I used the recommended "Sugar'n Cream 100% cotton from Lily.  

So this little gift gets a thumbs up wonderfully quick and the diamond patterns adds that extra zing.