Knit a Year of Dishcloths with Knit Picks

I don’t know why I’m just getting around to writing about this a month in, but Knit Picks is having a year of dishcloths in which they are releasing a new free dishcloth knitting pattern every week this year. (Which is brilliant if you have a cotton stash like I do!)

The first offering was the pretty Orbital Dishcloth, which, alas, is crochet, but you could engineer a similar knitting pattern without much problem.

Other washcloth patterns I’m seeing on the site include the mitered square Ridged Dishcloth, the fun Bee’s Knees cloth (yes, it has a bee on it!), another crocheted one and the Arc en Ciel Dishcloth, worked in bold, rainbow colors with a fun stitch pattern (that’s a great stash buster, right there).

I’m not seeing a page where all these patterns are collected, but you can access them through the free patterns page, should you want to go and look for more later in the year.

Are you a dishcloth knitter? I’ve knit a fair number of washcloths and pretty much only use them to bathe my daughter. I need to get them into the kitchen!

[Photo via Knit Picks.]

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Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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