And also, who knew I had so much appropriate yarn in my stash? Not me, on both accounts!
The cream washcloth is made from the same yarn I made my daughter's baby afghan out of, when I was expecting her. I had one skein left. I expected to get two washcloths out of it, but it knit into just one with only a little scrap of yarn left. It's so nice and soft - the yarn is 50% cotton and 50% microfiber.
The pink washcloths are made from yarn which (according to this post) I originally purchased to make socks out of but ended up making a flower washcloth out of instead. I still have enough yarn to make one more washcloth.
Cost: $0
Running Cost: $10.81
Whether we knit or sew, spin or weave, or refinish chairs, making things that people can use to clothe their bodies or furnish their homes can offer a welcome change from the recurring tasks of daily life. One woman says, "Whenever I begin to feel entangled and trapped in necessary tasks, I hear my grandmother's voice telling me that her mother used to admonish her: 'You have to make something, Sarah Elizabeth. You shouldn't spend all your time cooking and cleaning--those things are never done. You have to make something!'"
Cooking, cleaning, laundry--these things are necessary and important and perhaps more lasting, at least in their effects, than we tend to give them credit for. But it is important to make things too--things to wear and things to use, things to keep and things to give, things that can remind us of our own essential physicality and of our links to past and future generations.
--Keeping House, the Litany of Everyday Life, by Margaret Kim Peterson, page 81
2 comments:
They look nice! Did you use a provisional cast on this time, or just do them the same as before?
Thank you!
I used a provisional cast on for all three of these. By the third one I finally figured out the best methods for both casting on and closing - for the provisional cast on I used the crochet method (which was new to me, I had to look it up in my knitting book), and a garter stitch kitchener stitch (k off, p on; k off, p on).
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