We camped last weekend and i had a washing up sponge and tea-towels but no dishcloth so ended up using a tea-towel to wipe the sides down when i was washing up and tidying up. This is not ideal so when i got home i started checking out the dishcloth/washcloth patterns on Ravelry. Of course, none of the forty or so already in my queue was right so that meant a very pleasant stroll through the pattern browser. I love playing with it! I wanted crochet, i wanted free and i wanted texture on at least one of them.
I had a rummage in the cotton stash box - i try to keep all the cotton together for this very reason, it's so hard to match up colours etc when it's separated into the colour boxes so all the cotton is in one crate - and came up with a dark brown, a beige, a burgundy and a variegated mix of all three! The solid colours were bought as part of the Munks' wedding present experiment which turned into a Click hexagon blanket cos i realised that crocheting
that much cotton would kill my hands and the variegated was part of a Peaches and Cream stash enhancement that occurred in late 2008! Apparantly i bought it for "Chrimble knitting - washcloths and tribbles"... Like that was ever going to happen! :D
I wasn't sure how many i would make, i just wanted to use as much stash up as possible and it worked out just right! I had to find something else to use for the back of the potholder as i had run out of all the others by then but i found some mercerised cotton in a pale pink that "fits" with the colour theme just about!
I had to then tweak the pattern slightly to allow for the smaller gauge but it just meant doing doubletrebles on the last round instead of trebles and it all worked out great as far as i'm concerned.
I've seen "Corner to Corner" (also known as C2C) blankets popping up in my newsfeed on Facebook via the Creative Crochet group, it seems to be quite the in-thing at the moment and it had piqued my interest but not enough to want to do a blanket so a dishcloth was the perfect size to have a go at it. I can see why it's so popular! It's fast to work up and it is very rhythmic, i can see more in my future ;)
The "Squaring the Spiral" dishcloth was also another itch that needed scratching. I have tried spirals before but i end up getting really confused as to where i start and finish so i thought i would give it another go. It's not perfect but it will do and i have a better idea of how it works now. I would have liked the spiral to be bigger before it got squared off but i was following the pattern closely because i didn't muck it up again lol
Finally the "Flower Potholder" has been in my queue for about 5 ½ years and the handle on the new kettle gets quite warm so rather than have a tea-towel flapping around or burn my hand i thought i'd scratch another itch and get it made! It will also double up as a trivet to protect the worktop from the hot kettle :)
All in all, a pleasant few days of crochet. Now i just need to decide what will be next!
