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Two-Tone Bias Knit Washcloth

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two tone bias knit washclothThe bias knit washcloth is a classic knitting pattern, so classic in fact it has a default name: Grandmother’s Favorite.

I like it because it’s super easy, but still fun and quick to knit, and it’s perfect for using just about every scrap of leftover yarn you have.

I had the teensiest little bit of blue yarn left from other projects that I wanted to use, so I stitched the first half of my washcloth with that, and the second half with a coordinating green.

It made a tiny cloth perfect for face washing, but of course you can use this method to make a washcloth or dishcloth of any size you like.

Materials

  • I used about 35 yards of two colors of Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton (colors Aqua and Mint), but you can use as much as you like to make a larger cloth
  • one pair size 6 US/4mm knitting needles
  • yarn needle

Gauge

Gauge is not critical but I got about 5 stitches and 10 rows per inch/2.5 cm in bias Garter Stitch

Size

My finished washcloth is about 6 inches/15 cm square. It’s a perfect little face cloth but just keep increasing a while longer to make yours bigger if you like.

How to Knit a Two-Tone Bias Knit Washcloth

bias knit washclothWith color A, cast on 4 stitches.

Knit 1 row.

Knit 1, yarn over, knit across.

Repeat this row until you are almost out of yarn or the sides of your triangle are the length you’d like a side of your washcloth to be. I had 30 stitches when I began decreasing.

Change to color B.

Knit 1, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit to last 3 stitches, knit 2 together, knit 1. One stitch decreased.

Repeat this row until 4 stitches remain (the last row will end with the decrease, not a knit 1).

Knit 1 row.

Bind off. Weave in ends.

More Knitted Kitchen

Check out my other patterns from the series: Circular Washcloth | Loop Stitch Washcloth | Ridged Ribbon Eyelet | Cartridge Rib Dishcloth | Two-Color Moss Stitch Dishcloth | Vine Lace Dishcloth

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Comments

  1. How do you change colors so as to hide the tail of Color A? Thanks, Sarah! I make lot of these superquick (Portuguese purl), look forward to doing the two-color version!

  2. Just start knitting with the second color at the beginning of a row, leaving a few inches of both hanging at the side. When you weave in the ends, make sure you weave the color A to the color A side and the color B to the color B side.

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Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough. 

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern. 

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed. 

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do. 

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces. 

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls. 

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