Two events started this knitting project: (1) I mailed to Charleston the EPP hand-sewing project I had put together to work on until I can move into my Charleston house as it would take up too much room in my car AND (2) when sorting “stuff” for the move I found a bag of cotton yarns I had purchased so grandchildren could learn to knit. But, the three covid years didn’t deliver grandchildren to my house in Maine who wanted to learn to knit.
I really love to have hand work to do at night–so I started knitting these cloths for the kitchen. It is a good project as my stack of these cloths, which I use to dry my wet hands, was growing low and some cloths were getting worn and shabby looking.
I’ve finished the top three cloths now and am working on the fourth one.
The 4th cloth is being knitted in a moss stitch, which I’ve never made before now. I like the seed stitch (see the aqua/purple cloth), and the moss is the same except one starts with even stitches (seed with an odd number of stitches) and in moss one knits TWO rows that are identical and then two rows that start by knitting a purl into a knit and a knit into a purl, as with the seed stitch.
You can see the moss stitch creates wonderful texture.
The other two completed cloths are just a garter stitch (all knitting all the time)–and all of these choices (garter, seed, moss) give a heavier texture to these cloths, which I think is needed.
I have four more cotton balls, and they are all solids, so I will have fun with both the seed and moss stitches that create so much texture.
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I love cotton yarn for knitting and used to make a lot of them as dishcloths but never considered them for drying my hands! That’s a great idea 😊
These cloths are beautiful. I have always wanted to learn to knit but have never done that so far. I started cross stitching again during Covid but my eyesight sometimes makes that difficult as I’m not getting any younger. Thank for sharing.