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I have a few funny knitting related things to share this week, so I thought I would put them all together in one post for when you need a laugh or a smile.

First, this past week was Wool Week in Britain, which is a week devoted to celebrating the wonderful qualities of wool and innovative uses for the fiber. To celebrate, the Campaign for Wool produced three new videos, one of which shows adorable baby sheep talking about the fire-resistant properties of wool and thinking about becoming movie stars. It’s pretty cute, actually.

Second, I think I’ve seen this one before but it bears repeating since KniCroManiac shared it on her Tumblr. The work of Jorge Pérez Higuerahas called The Other Side explores what Stormtroopers do on their day off. For some it includes fiber arts: stormtrooper knitting and other knitting humorAnd finally, while Trevor Noah was getting ready to take over “The Daily Show,” he did a few promo videos, including one in which he explains his passion for knitting. (Spoiler alert: it involves a toaster oven.)

Have you seen anything funny related to knitting lately? Please share!

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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.