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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:07 pm Post subject: Knitted dishcloths
Just had one of those minor revelation moments. I do still buy sponge washing up scourers, but its just dawned on me that I'm also still using a set of knitted string dishcloths my great aunt made for me ten years ago when we bought the house. Thats good going for a highly abused bit of knitted string. Think I'll have to make some more this year and try to ditch the sponge scourers.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:10 pm Post subject:
I've always thought that they would be a good way of trying out a new stitch or pattern. Is it just plain cotton yarn or do you need something a little more coarse?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:12 pm Post subject:
I think you can buy discloth cotton, I'm fairly sure I even have some somewhere in the stash, but would be tempted to use soft cotton string if it felt suitable

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:14 pm Post subject:
random google gives this https://www.bgpayne.com/haberdashery/dishcloth.html so its out there, 70p per 100g, should make several cloths I reckon

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:18 pm Post subject:
https://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/dishcloths.php loads and loads and loads of dishcloth patterns. Anyone want to design us a Downsizer Dishcloth?

frewen

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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 9:37 pm Post subject:
I've been surfing dishcloth patterns since I last posted - but then I got sidetracked knitted eyeballs and pirate hat https://maryjanemidgemink.blogspot.com/2007/10/knitted-eyeballs-for-halloween.html https://www.helloyarn.com/wecallthempirates.htm I think maybe one of Gervase's relatives is a model?

alison
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 07 10:53 pm Post subject:
I go on a knit a long with dishcloths, where there is a few rows given every day for the time of the cloth, and there are two cloths a month. One is a pattern, and the other a picture.

Samantha

Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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Location: In a field, North Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 8:10 am Post subject:
I'm a knitted dishcloth girl as well - they work a treat and do seem to last forever. Wonder if there's a group on ravelry?

Samantha

Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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Location: In a field, North Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 8:20 am Post subject:
In answer to myself - yes there is - Dishcloths R Us

Sarah D

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 8:30 am Post subject:

I've been knitting them for 20 years now, wouldn't sue anything else - apart from a wooden headed brush with changeable ehads on. Makes the job of washing up that much nicer. I do at least two a month, with a Knit-along by e-mail, and several others as I come across patterns that take my fancy. As usual, the Americans are at the forefront with the best designs, one of my favourite sites being Dishcloth Boutique, which I've used for years.

I find the old fashioned dishcloth cotton too thick, so use ordinary DK cotton, but it has to be pure cotton (but any colour, as long as it is fast). I've experimented with cotton mixes, but they don't perform at all well as dishcloths. Look in charity shops,e tc for odd balls - one 50g ball will make about 1 1/2 dishcloths - use the odds up to make a stripey one. Wash on a hot wash, and when it does eventually wear out, it goes on the compost heap. I use them as cloths in the bathroom too, but keep them blue for there, so they don;t get mixed up with the kitchen ones. Knitted facecloths/flannels in cotton are nice too, and make a nice present with some homemade soap.

Some of mine, made for a display, still using some of them:

One of my favourite sitesis the Dishcloth Boutique, but it has moved sites recently, and I'm trying to track it down again.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 10:25 am Post subject:
Even with my limited knitting skills I've been making and using knitted dishcloths for years. I buy the dishcloth cotton and can get 3 out of one ball. Just do stocking stitch cos its the only bit of knitting I can do without too much swearing and concentration. And like Sarah D says they end up on the compost heap when holey and sad looking.

alison
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 10:25 am Post subject:
Is it this one? https://www.jimsyldesign.com/dishbout/kpatterns/potholders.html

cinders

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 10:30 am Post subject:
nice sarah D.Theirs me i use a boring old cut up holey sock

Sarah D

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 3:41 pm Post subject:
at Eco.......... Yes, that's it Alison, but I can't get it to load at the moment. Not that I have any business looking at even more knitting pattterns for dishcloths. I have to get one knitted up to test for the organiser of the KAL

dottyspots

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
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Location: South Yorks

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 07 5:04 pm Post subject:
There's quite a thread on it on Ravelry too (for those bods who are on ravelry)

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