The Wrapper Cloth

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!