Hand Knit Washcloths

Since I had a few skeins of cotton yarn hanging around, plus several partial skeins of cotton yarn too, I decided to knit some washcloths. I used the same knit pattern for them all, which is called Spa Day Facecloth and is a free pattern by Anne Mancine on Ravelry. I really like this size and it's got a nice thick feel to the washcloth as well. I have one in the shower and it's really nice! The front side looks as nice as the back side of the washcloth. Here are 10 washcloths I knit and I have finished a few more, since I took these photos. I am working on knitting the last one right now, so I will post the others another time.

I used up scraps of 3 different yarns colors to knit this washcloth. I only had a small amount of the yellow at the bottom and the other two yarns were variegated colors.

This was a variegated yarn and this is the front side of the washcloth.

Here is the front side with the back side flipped over on the corner so you can see what it looks like on the back side. 

This is the washcloth I kept and am using. I like the color combination in this variegated yarn.

The back is shown with the upper corner flipped over.

This one in sage green really shows the the knit pattern on the front.

The back side shows looks the same, except you see the purl side of the knit stitches, whereas on the front you see the long lines of the knit stitch, which forms a grid-like pattern. The rest is garter stitch on both front and back.

I like how the red and white blend to form bits of pink here and there in this variegated yarn.

Corner flipped over to show how the back looks.

I love yellow and blue together and the white gives this a fresh look. It's fun to knit and see how the variegated yarns knit out and the interesting patterns they form in the colors.

This yarn is all pastel colors and just tiny bits of colors on with the white. So it doesn't form the patterns of colors like the variegated yarns that are dyed in longer sections of colors.

This mostly white has tiny bits of blue, pink and yellow, but it was mostly white. So you get a different look here too.

I used up 4 different yarns to create this washcloth. Only one is a variegated yarn.

Here is another washcloth that I used 4 different leftover yarns to create it. Only one is a solid color yarn here.

 

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Knit Dishcloths

I knit this cotton dishcloth in the Snakes and Ladders pattern by Michelle Krause.

I knit this cotton dishcloth in the Boxy Dishcloth pattern, also by Michelle Krause. I was just a few stitches short of the binding off when I ran out of this orange yarn. If you look at the top right hand corner you can see that I had to use another yarn that I had on hand, which was a black cotton yarn. So that is the reason for the tiny bit of black there. Oh well, it's just a dishcloth.

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