Last week's knitting

I seem to be incapable of sticking with one thing at the moment - I've moved about between projects for the last week. Some things got finished, and some things are still waiting to be finsihed (but then they're not the only things!)

First up came another dishcloth (my mom is suggesting this summer will be known as 'the one with the dishcloths). I finished a third, this had a garter stitch border, then an inner border of K2tog YO 3 times, and then a stocking stitch middle. I knit another one after that on the bias, but I've decided to knit another one of those and then join them to make an pot holder to replace the disgusting one we have in our kitchen.

I acquired a small amount of yarn mid-week and used it to knit two hats for premature babies. The hats came from a pattern published by Bliss, and each one takes less than an evening to knit. The pattern leaflet also has booties and cardigans, so I think I'll try and do some of each. I just need to get more suitable yarn now.

I also finished knitting Branching Out. All it needs now is blocking, and I'm going to use the fact my brother's away to use his room to do it. I stopped after 25 pattern repeats, I'll explain all when I post it as a FO.

Finally I cast on and knit half of the first side of the Saturday Market Bag last night. I was going to finally finish my shrug, but we decided to watch a film and I wanted to be able to pay more attention than I tend to do when I'm seaming. So far the Bag is going fine, but I'm not keen on 10mm needles - feels like knitting with board markers!

This week I am adding photographing my FOs and WIPs to my to-do list. Its been far too long and I'm just being lazy in not doing it!

More Washing Up

I finished another dishcloth last night. From the same website, but I did the feather and fan pattern instead. I really liked knitting this and now I'm thinking about doing a baby blanket using the same pattern. I can see it working with a variegated yarn in all the pretty baby colours.

Washing Up Ahoy

I spent last night knitting my first dishcloth. Its something I've been pondering for a little while; my mom has always said they're the strongest and best versions, and I thought it would be a good way to try out some stitch patterns. I found this site and decided to try some of the patterns. I started with the Stepped Ridge pattern and it turned out really nicely.

It used about half of the 100 gram ball of cotton I bought using 4mm needles, so I'm now going to look into buying a pack of cotton instead - looks like everyone's going to be getting dishcloths pretty soon!