Cotton Overload!

Let's look at some other cotton projects I've done lately!

Here's a 4-Corners Dishcloth, made in a yellow colorway that gave me lots of joy!

This calls for an invisible cast-on, then when you are done, you remove the cast-on and graft the live stitches together. Unfortunately, I wasn't at home when I started this, so instead of waiting until I had access to the cast-on instructions, I just used my regular default long-tail. When I was done knitting, I just sewed the seam. Which, of course, looks really rotten. I'm planning another one soon, and have printed off the invisible cast-on and grafting instructions already, so I can do the next one right!

Next is the Swiffer Re-Usable Cloth I made for a Ravelympics project.

This knit up surprisingly fast, considering it is mostly done in seed stitch, which I usually detest. As you can see in the second picture, it is a bit shorter than my Swiffer. When I mopped with it, the rubber sticking out the ends kind of dragged on the floor. I've started another one of these, and made the body a few stitches longer, in hopes it will fit better. I also substituted the stitch pattern from the Chinese Waves dishcloth. Like seed stitch, it has lots of little nubbies to scrub with, but should work up faster than seed stitch.

I am very pleased with the general design of these. They have bobbles to push into the zig-zaggy holes where you would normally tuck in the corners of the cloth. Clever!

Here's the second Ravelympics project, the Mother Illusion Cloth, by Dawn Huddlestone. First, let's look at it straight on. OK, striped cloth. Whatever.

Now look at it from an angle.

Can you see it, can you, can you???

Ah, the magic of illusion knitting! This is my first illusion attempt, and I have to admit it's pretty cool. Even my husband was impressed. The colors are actually quite a bit deeper than shown in the photo. The green is definitely a dark hunter shade, and the blue is closer to royal. I substituted garter stitch for the ribbing the pattern calls for.