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Spring Time Scrubby Dish Cloth

ScrubbyDishCloths

Browsing through the yarn aisle at Jo-Ann Fabrics, I came across Red Heart’s Scrubby yarn. What an awesome idea! The skein was on the smaller side, but the yardage looked good. I thought I could make some great little kitchen scrubby gifts and bought a couple colors to experiment with. I crocheted a cute little red square scrubby and was a little skeptical how well it would work. So that night after dinner, I gave it a try. My little scrubby just wasn’t doing the job. It felt flimsy in my hands and I had to fold it up to get it to take the grime off the pots. The scrubby got pushed to the side and the kitchen sponge came back out. I knew there had to be a better option.

Scrubby Dish Cloth Materials

The Coconut Scrubby Yarn and the Sugar ‘n Cream yarns complement each other well!

After some brainstorming, I bought a couple skeins of Lily Sugar ’n Cream yarn. Knowing that the crochet method didn’t give the right weave for the scrubby to be functional, I started to knit the Sugar ’n Cream and the Red Heart Scrubby held together to create a mitered square. Success! My fuzzy scrubby dish cloths are perfect for the kitchen!

The scrubby yarn is perfect for getting the grime off kitchen pots and dishes. The cotton yarn adds stability, giving the scrubby yarn a better feel in your hand. These two yarns complement each other nicely and are fun to work together.

The mitered square pattern creates an interesting pattern both visually and to knit.

The mitered square pattern creates an interesting pattern both visually and to knit.

I love the mitered square because it’s an easy pattern to memorize and the rows take less time as the project continues because you are decreasing two stitches every other row! There is a high satisfaction level when knitting these cute dish cloths, they make great gifts and are an easy project to travel with.

Materials

US 8 or 5mm straight knitting needles (These are my favorite!)

Stitch marker

1 skein of Lily Sugar ’n Cream Cotton yarn (Over the Rainbow Ombre and Summer Prints shown)

1 skein of Red Heart Scrubby yarn  (Coconut shown)

Yarn needle to weave in ends

Pattern

This is what your knitting needle will look line before starting Row 1.

This is what your knitting needle will look like once the Setup step is complete and before starting Row 1.

Setup: Holding both yarns held together, CO 30 stitches (I used a long tail cast on, but use your favorite method!)

Place a stitch marker 15 stitches in

Row 1: Knit 13 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 13 (28 Stitches)

Row 2: Knit across

Row 3: Knit 12 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 12 (26 Stitches)

Row 4: Knit across

Row 5: Knit 11 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 11 (24 Stitches)

Row 6: Knit across

Row 7: Row 4: Knit 10 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 10 (22 Stitches)

Row 8: Knit across

Row 9: Knit 9 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 9 (20 Stitches)

Row 10: Knit across

Row 11: Row 6: Knit 8 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 8 (18 Stitches)

Row 12: Knit across

Row 13: Row 7: Knit 7 stitches,k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 7 (16 Stitches)

Row 14: Knit across

Row 15: Row 8: Knit 6 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 6 (14 Stitches)

Row 16: Knit across

Row 17: Knit 5 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 5 (12 Stitches)

Row 18: Knit across

Row 19: Knit 4 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 4 (10 Stitches)

Row 20: Knit across

Row 21: Knit 3 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 3 (8 Stitches)

Row 22: Knit across

Row 23: Knit 2 stitches, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 2 (6 Stitches)

Row 24: Knit across

Row 25: Knit 1 stitch, k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog, k 1 (4 Stitches)

Row 26: Knit across

Row 27: k2togtbl, slip marker, k2tog (2 Stitches)

Cut a long tail and using your tapestry needle, pul through both loops on the needle and tie off. Weave in ends and block.

Note

There is no need to count rows! If the cast-on tail is on the right side of the work, knit across all stitches. If the cast-on tail is on the left side, then work the decreases using the stitch marker as a guide until there are 2 stitches  left.

Abbreviations

CO – Cast On

k2togtbl – Knit Two Together through the back loop

k2tog – Knit Two Together

Treasure Chest Cowl

 Treasure Cowl in Progress

Treasure CowlThere is a treasure chest hidden within the walls of my local yarn store. Ok, it’s actually a wire basket filled with mark downs and discontinued yarns, but it serves me well and I always feel like I strike gold when I find a treasured hank of something special  inside. The quantities are minimal, but somehow at 40% off I manage to convince myself that it’s great stash material and I make a purchase.

About six months ago I was digging through the treasure chest and found a beautiful hank of Cascade Magnum Paints. It was a captivating blend of multiple earth tone colors and thick single ply wool that seemed to have a halo of light radiating from it. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but I couldn’t put it down!

Not yet knowing what I was going to do with this giant hank, a purchase was made! That hank sat in my stash four months. There wasn’t enough yardage to do anything special with, and this was surely a special yarn. So it continued to take up real estate on one of my many yarn shelves. The yarn stash continued to grow and projects flew off the needles, and Magnum Paints sat idle.

Several months and multiple trips later, I was digging through the treasure chest again and I couldn’t believe my eyes! There was a luxurious hank of Cascade Magnum Paints in what appeared to be the same color way I had at home! I snatched that hank right up and immediately started to design the perfect cowl in my head. Wanting to develop a pattern that leveraged the beautiful color, but was fun to knit with interesting stitch patterns, yet simple, the wheels were spinning. Yes, let’s make it bulky, wrap it around the neck twice…Treasure Cowl Wrapped

I got home and cast on. 127 stitches to be exact. Working in the round, I started with a couple of rows of garter stitch to prevent rolling and went from there. The result? A gorgeous, warm cowl with simple and interesting stitch patterning that leverages the yarn coloring for interest.

Want to make your own?

Materials

2 hanks of Cascade Yarns Magnum Paints (Super Bulky Weight)

US size 15, 32” circular knitting needles

Stitch Marker

Gauge: 8 stitches x 12 rows in stockinet = 4×4

Finished size is 35″ x 7″

Pattern

Cast On 127 stitches using the long tail cast on method.

Join yarn for working in the round and place stick marker. Move stitch marker up at the beginning of each round.

Row 1: Knit

Row 2: Purl

Row 3: Knit

Row 4: Knit

Row 5: Knit

Row 6: Knit 1, Purl 1 to the end.

Row 7: Purl 1, Knit 1 to the end.

Row 8: Knit 1, Purl 1 to the end.

Row 9: Knit

Row 10: Knit

Row 11: Knit

Row 12: Knit

Row 13: Purl

Row 14: Knit

Row 15: Knit

Row 16: Knit

Row 17: Knit

Row 18: Purl 1, Knit 1 to the end.

Row 19: Knit 1, Purl 1 to the end.

Row 20: Purl 1, Knit 1 to the end.

Bind Off

Weave in ends and block!