All of the dishcloths used a size 6 needle which can be quite rough on the hands when combined with cotton. Remember to take breaks even if the dishcloth is calling your name and you just have to get another pattern repeat in there. Don't do it!
Oh, and I also took all these pictures without the flash. I think they are pretty close to the actual colors (after doing a little editing on the photos), but they might seem a little less "bright"....someday I'll do this during the daylight, I mean it. Oh, and if you haven't figured it out already, you can click on the photo and it should take you to my flickr page where you can see the whole picture. Since my template is kind of narrow, it tends to cut off part of the pictures.
ORRRRRRRRRRRR, The Powers That Be at Ravelry just unrolled a brand new feature, the SHARE BUTTON! Yay! So if you want to see more details on the entire project (including pictures), click here!
#1- Garter Dishcloth w/Pointy Corners (Ravelry linky): Have had this pattern memorized pretty much as soon as I learned it. Love it, but get bored with it quite easily. Pros: can tune out knitting and watch TV.
#2- Feather & Fan Dishcloth: Also have had this memorized forever. And love this one too. I've done it a bunch of times, more times than I can count, actually. Not as mindless as the aforementioned dishcloth as I have to tune in to do the lace row, but aside from that, it's pretty mindless.
#3- Eyelet Rib : I've done this one once before in a solid, but it isn't so lacy that the pattern disappeared in a variegated/ombre. I prefer it with a solid, but this one turned out pretty nicely too, I'd say. I didn't do the Slip1-Knit1-Pass Slipped Stitch Over (Sl1, K1, PSSO) and instead used the Slip-Slip-Knit (SSK). Why? Whenever I do a Sl1, K1, PSSO with cotton yarn, my passed slip stitch looks uneven and kind of wonky. I think it's just because cotton yarn has a lot less give and my gauge is a bit tighter. Your mileage may vary, of course, so if you want to do this pattern I recommend trying both and using whichever one you like better/looks better.
For this one, I even took a close up. Ta-da!
#4- The infamous BallBand pattern: As you may be able to guess, this pattern, in addition to being found at the Peaches & Creme website, is found on the ballband (clever!) of every single skein of Peaches & Creme you will ever buy. Since I didn't want to tote around my computer while I was working on this (since, it's a- annoying, b- distracting, and c- I do have to share it!), I just went up to my craft room, rummaged around for about 5 seconds and found a ballband. Voila, a BallBand pattern! Yay!
For this one, since it requires two colors, the other color I used was the remains of the Tea Rose skein that I used on my Lilacs on the Veranda cloth (found here). I didn't even use up about 1/2 of what I had left (so I'm guessing I only used about 1/4 a solid skein, or approximately 25 yards), so there might be another BallBand in the near future using Tea Rose...
I even took a closeup of the ballband too.
I'd just like to warn people that these are actually like crack. They are so addictive. And not hard. And there's also a crochet-friendly variation: The Brick Wall Dishcloth (I have not crocheted this since my problem with crocheting mainly is that I crochet waaaaaay too tightly and cotton has no give, so me+crochet+cotton=major disaster, and yes I've tried crocheting with cotton, so I cannot comment as to whether this is like crack for crocheters). I lurves me the ballband pattern. I already cannot wait to start my next one (which will most likely not be a present, but who knows) and am planning many fun color combinations with this!
My one beef with this project was actually not with the patterns at all, it was actually with the yarn. Weird, I know. The Juanita Rose colorway is, according to the Peaches & Creme website (found here- scroll to the bottom of the page, Juanita Rose is 229) is Sage Green, Lemon and Shrimp. I had no problems with the Lemon (which is more of a soft yellow, not an ugly neon yellow like the poster in the Ravelry thread described it as, haha) and Shrimp as they were pretty neatly and tightly wound, but the Sage Green was often very splitty. That is very unusual for Peaches & Creme (in my experience, anyway). I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that I did not buy this cone from the factory directly, but I bought it at the Evil Empire. I hadn't even set foot in that store in over a year because a- the one near me is waaaaaaay ghetto-fab, b- it's not far away, but it's totally out of my way for the most part, and c- well, I won't go into it....but after going to 2 Joann's and 2 Michael's in ONE DAY trying to find a color of yarn, it was my last option (short of ordering online and having to pay higher prices + shipping)... so while I was there, I got some Juanita Rose since I hadn't tried that color yet. Hmm, lesson learned. I'll just order from the factory from now on (though I am well stocked in Peaches & Creme yarn, so I won't need to order for a while....maybe not till 2020). :)
And now that I've finished that project, I've updated my KnitMeter! I have now knitted 859 meters this year. Well on my way to knit 2000 meters in 2010! If I keep this up, I should be able to for sure hit, if not exceed, my goal. :)
Well, that's it for now (it took me about two hours to write this, wtf!)...now that I've got this out of the way and over a month till Mother's Day (my mom's present usually involves dishcloths), I'll try to accomplish some non-dishcloth knitting. I hear that Shimmer Yarn and CashSilk Fern Scarf calling.......
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