Signs You are So Over Your Current Knitting Project

This list from Craftsy of 10 ways to know you’re over your current WIP made me laugh, but it’s actually important to think about.

Have you had a project in time out for years?

Are you totally bored with what you’re knitting?

Were you stitching something trendy last winter that you don’t care about or that isn’t in style any more?

Do you hate the yarn or the color?

These and more are all totally legitimate reasons to dump a knitting project.

That’s not to say that every project you’ve neglected for years should be dumped. I recently picked up a sweater I started more than eight years ago and now it’s almost finished. I still have a Hitchhiker somewhere that I definitely want done. But some projects are not worth our time and effort and we need to be OK with abandoning them. And it does give me a certain joy to rip out projects I’m not loving, secure in the knowledge I never have to see them again.

What about you? How do you know you need to break up with a project? Have you ever gone back and finished a years-old WIP? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Craftsy.]

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.

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