Sometimes it's nice to return to basics, and knit something mindless. I often knit dishcloths from cotton yarn when I need something in my hands but don't feel particularly like I want to focus on a pattern. I've heard dishcloths called "potato chip knitting" and that really does describe them!
I normally opt for the basic corner to corner bias garter stitch cloth that many of us learned to knit from. Today I thought I'd mix things up and knit a mitered square. I casted on 49 sts and I'm using the slip 2 as if to knit 2 together, knit 1, pass the 2 slipped sts over, aka S2KP, decrease at the center if each right side row; the wrong side rows are knit. Pretty simple and I'll have another cloth for the kitchen drawer fairly soon. I will add that I like to knit my dishcloths a bit tighter than recommended; I'm using size 4.0mm needles with worsted weight cotton. It may sound a bit silly, but I'm convinced tighter knit dishcloths have better scrubbing ability than looser knit ones.
What's your favourite mindless, or nearly mindless, project?
Yours in yarn and trebles,
Síle
