I bought my house; thus I bought Mason-Dixon Knitting; thus I bought Cotton-Ease yarn in two colours & cast on for a baby kimono. I hear these things happen. I farmed out the second one to Mason and got the extra joy of double finishing! Hurray!

These will go to Poppy's twins, sort of as a consolation prize for not getting to work with us anymore. Sigh. Where's our consolation?

Labels: baby, bat masterson, fo, mdk

Thanks to the gals at MDK, I was so deeply smitten with the ballband washcloths that I tried the 9-patch as well. It's definitely my weirdest washcloth, but very beautiful. I very slowly worked away at the ends for awhile, forgot about it for a few months when I moved, then finished it in a burst. What can I say: with no deadline, I'm lazy.

It's made up of leftovers from all over: turquoise cotton bought for Stacy's cellphone cozy, white cotton bought (but not used) for the Henry Rollins doll, variegated cotton from the Boy's "I will only buy yarn for 3 dollars or less" knitting phase and what remains of the green cotton for Pixie's pixie hat. It's rather lovely.

Labels: fo, house, mdk

completed june 3.

The house insanity continues with the newest addition to the washcloth family! I love the nubby feel of these washcloths, so I made another one to match the Blake's bathroom. Leftover cottons were "carefully" selected for only the finest decor-matching schmatta. But seriously, folks...I shouldn't find it odd that all these colours were hanging around my stash; of course I'm going to buy colours that I like. The Boy gets credit for the pastel variegated and for pressing the completed cloth into service immediately, Mason-Dixon Knitting gets credit for the pattern, and I get credit for making it in the first place.

action shot!

Labels: fo, house, mdk, repeats

From the girls at MDK: a ballband dishcloth in stash cotton. I'm stashbusting and decorating my new house all at the same time! This must be heaven.

the countdown to the end of basement shots starts now!

The base colour is what remained after Pixie's pixie hat. (Next time I make a shaped hat I'll be sure to use a lighter fiber than cotton!) The varied cotton was purchased by the Boy last year; he went through a knitting phase in which he decided he would only spend a few bucks for a ball of yarn. Hence, worsted dishcloth-type cotton. He soon decided that he hated knitting cotton, and was happy to let me use this as my first dishcloth experiment.

My bathroom is green...this may end up in the shower. Yee!

Labels: fo, mdk, stash