I’m almost finished with the dishcloth yarn.   After one more cloth, that “oh no, there’s nothing on my needles feeling” is going to have to be remedied by a real project – because there’s no dishcloth yarn left in the stash!  It was a meager stash, I will admit.  Not by choice.  I’m really quite the fiber hoarder at heart.  Nothing at all virtuous here – just a lack of opportunity plain and simple.

So, as I burn the Stash – metaphorically speaking of course – I’ve replenished the cloth stash reserves.  That makes me happy.

I even found a really neat “gift wrap” idea at Knittingknonsense.com called the “Wrapper Cloth.”  It’s a “Grandma’s Favorite” cloth knit on the bias, with a buttonhole worked in one end, and a “bobble” at the other.

However – I decided to just make my “bobble” detachable.  That way, who ever gets the cloth can just take that off, and have a hanging “loop” (the buttonhole!) and no bobble to mess with.  I just did a slip knot (basically cast on one stitch), worked a Kfb 5 times in that stitch, turned, knit thru those five stitches, then passed the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5 sts over and called it done!  Then, I snipped the ends long enough to tie a bow and threaded them thru the y/o edge at the opposite corner from the button hole.

Another slight change I made is, they show the cloth wraped “envelope style” around a bar of soap.  That’s also a great idea but I was looking for a fun way to gift the actual dishcloths – and as can be seen here – it works pretty well for that too!