Knitted or Crocheted Dishcloths

I had an Usborne  Books booth at a Ladies Day Out event at the new Cancer Center in Abingdon,Va. last fall.  The Tupperware lady was selling some homemade dishcloths at her booth that I thought were very nice.  She was charging $3 a piece for them and sold all of them before I had a chance to buy any.

I enjoy knitting and crocheting, but I am not very good at it and I tend to lose interest in a project before it is done.  So, after missing out on buying the dishcloths at that event, I thought making my own would be the perfect (fast and seemingly easy) project for me.  I found many sites online that offered patterns that I could follow, but they were mostly crochet patterns.  After some experimentation, I found that the easiest thing to do was crochet a square (about 4 inches) in single crochet, then crochet a boarder around it.  They are nice and tight and are great for light scrubbing.

I have made scrubbies simply knitting cotton yarn with strips of tulle.  They are durable and won’t scratch non-stick surfaces. Crocheting them did not work as well for me, for some reason.

Here is the problem.  I like to make matched sets of scrubbies and dishcloths, and since I have signed up to contribute a supply of homemade crafts for a fundraiser and the only craft I know is this one, I need an easy knitted dishcloth pattern to match my scrubbies.  Well, after looking for a long time, I think I have found the one I need at the Groovy Mom Blog.

I will let you know how it works for me and publish pictures of a completed dishcloth as soon as I get it done.

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