It could be the heat – and cotton yarn seems to be a good choice during the summer, but I’m calling it the dishcloth flu. I thought I was over it…apparently I have relapsed. I was all set to start a “real” project, get a design going that I have been cooking up for quite some time, or pick up something from the WIP pile, when, the next thing I knew, I was just “finishing up this ball of yarn”, and then “oh yeah! I think I’ll make one of those!

So, I’ve been feather and fanning, and I’m now doing an entrelac cloth – that might end up either a hot pad (rectangle, then fold it in half and stitch up three sides and add a loop – or maybe just a really “generous” cloth. I haven’t decided yet.  That’s the “oh yeah!” cloth… The Feather & Fan Dishcloth pattern is at the Dishcloth Boutique. For the entrelac cloth, I’m using the instructions from Scarf Style for Lady Eleanor – just a few less base triangles of course. Entrelac is fun because it gives me the opportunity to practice knitting and purling backwards. (If you don’t – you end up turning your work every 8 stitches, so depending on how ambitious I’m feeling, I either turn my work, or just do the backwards version of whatever stitch I’m on – keeps it interesting.)  I may make another hummingbird dishcloth if I can get my hands on a different color yarn.  I’m close to the end of my stash now, and the only solid I have left is more pink – why I ended up with so much pink is rather a puzzlement to me, but there you have it.   So, on we go with the dishcloth flu until it’s either a) run it’s course and I’m really and truly “over it” or b) I run out of yarn – and unless the yarn fairies swing by, my money’s on “b”….