[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dishcloths

[Deborah Armstrong]

In answer to the questions, these dishcloths are designed to be 
decorative. You don't scrub your kitchen with the good ones, just the 
ones where you made mistakes. The idea is that you have something useful 
as a finished product while you practice.


Once you create a pretty one, you can hang it in the guest bathroom when 
guests are expected, or give it to an overnight guest who needs a 
morning shower. "Washcloth" is the more appropriate term.


Pretty cloths can also be used to wrap gifts -- say a jar of homemade 
spice mix wrapped in a pretty dishcloth.


Keep knitting the pattern and it becomes a bathroom or kitchen towel. If 
it's lovely, then gift it; if not, you can use it to clean up messes and 
at least it's more attractive than a stained old rag which to sighted 
folks can appear dirty and unsanitary even if it's clean!


Several of my mistakes have replaced old rags in my cleaning bag; I can 
keep them on the edge of the sink and know I don't have a rag sitting 
out that looks filthy to sighted guests.


You use 100% cotton; there are varieties that are cheaply made and some 
super quality ones at the fancy yarn shops. I'd start with cotton that's 
$6 or less a skein, and move up to pricey stuff once I got the stitch 
pattern down.


The material is more durable as the price increases. Cotton is absorbent 
and washes well. Do not use acrylic or wool for washcloths!


--Debee



On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Dorothea Martin via Nfb-krafters-korner wrote:
> Hello, Bernice,
> I have often wondered the same thing about working hard on a dish 
> cloth and then using it to clean the cereal off the sides of the bowl. 
> What I did once was to get one of those stitch dictionaries, in my 
> case, "Adventures in Knitting now on the BARD, and knit samples the 
> same size, sew them together and give it away as a blanket or 
> bedspread. For my first crochet project I made coasters and then a 
> sock for those small bottles of water that I carried around all 
> summer. The sock kept me from wet pocket syndrome that I used to get 
> because I would leave the house with a nice, frozen bottle.
> Dotty Martin
>
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