Never has a lobster (sorry, lobstah) received such loving treatment as Louie does in this remarkable washcloth.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 77% [?]
Sometimes you’re in the mood for fiendish complexity, and sometimes you’re in the mood for elegant simplicity.
This dishcloth is for your elegant mood.
Difficulty level: Beginner
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 85% [?]
A slightly more complex cloth with a highly visual texture.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 52% [?]
If you’re going to knit washcloths for Christmas gifts, you might as well make them festive.
Difficulty level: Beginner
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 87% [?]
A pretty holiday washcloth with a thoughtfully-designed ornament pattern.
If I start now, I’ll have enough knitted to decorate my tree with them next year.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 69% [?]
A candy-stripey washcloth, to get your holiday mornings off just right.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 64% [?]
Take a snow day today!
Because no matter where you live, it’s always snowing someplace.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 82% [?]
The most gorgeous washcloth you’re ever likely to scrub your face with it.
Make sure you buy some nice soap just for the occasion.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 40% [?]
A beautiful washcloth with Breast Cancer awareness in mind.
Use them for a charity project with your knitting friends, or give them as a gift to a survivor.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 46% [?]
Is this a seasonal pattern? Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who gets all gooey over Valentine’s Day. Me, I say forget Valentine’s Day, and let’s be sweet to each other all year ’round.
So from my perspective, October is a perfect time for red hearts.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 42% [?]
Up and up the stairs we go. And if we forgot to turn on the hallway light, we’d better not miss that top step and fall down.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 37% [?]
One of the best things about fall, is that it’s only time you can surround yourself in mad orange shades without having to justify yourself.
Although you don’t have to knit this bat in mad orange shades if you don’t want to.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 31% [?]
A big and intricate washcloth, far better suited to a bubble bath with champagne and candles than for scrubbing mud off your shoes.
Or what I plan to do when I knit it, which is frame it and admire it forever.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton DK weight straight needlesPopularity: 28% [?]
To my ear, the name of this pattern sounds like a piece of men’s athletic equipment. But there’s no denying that the ballband is one of the grand-daddies of washcloth knitting.
Heck, this fabric is absorbent enough to soak up grand-daddies, if you happen to have a flood of them.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton worsted weightPopularity: 35% [?]
A pretty little washcloth. And perfect for knitters like me, it’s actually designed not to be square. Hurray!
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 28% [?]
An embossed washcloth, perfect for scrubbing mud off little faces or dabbing away little tears.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 19% [?]
Part washcloth, part zoology lesson.
I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m rooting for the dragonfly.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 34% [?]
The essence of entrelac, in tidy washcloth form.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 20% [?]
A slinky red number, the sexiest washcloth I’ve ever seen designed with conscience and a cause in mind.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 24% [?]
I can’t say that I have ever beheld a knit washcloth and thought, “You know what this needs? Fruit!” But that’s why I’m not a designer.
Designers see the potential in all things. I just hover around the edge and admire.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 22% [?]
