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Check Out This Amazing Yarn Bomb

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arkansas yarn bombThis is about three hours from my house, and I ,ay just have to make a trip so I can see it in person. A bunch of knitters and crocheters have yarn bombed the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, covering more than 1,200 square feet of the building, surrounding walls and tress with knitting.

Louise Palermo, education director at the center, saw one yarn-bombed tree last year and was inspired to develop the project with the help of Chelsye Garrett, an art student at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

They say the size of the project makes it the second-largest yarn bombing ever, second only to the recent covering of the Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh.

It’s pretty amazing regardless. Not sure how long it’s going to be up, so if you’re in the area you should go check it out soon!

[Photo by Gavin Lesnick via Arkansas Online.]

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  1. Hi! I’m Chelsye, the artist that designed the Arts Center bomb. I’m so glad you like it! I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning us and the yarn bomb will be up until Oct 21.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.