The pattern for this cloth can be found at Knitting Memories blogspot. I’ve been meaning to try this one for a while. What self-respecting coffee swilling household shouldn’t have one of these??? It comes out to about a 9 by 9 inch square for me when I knit it on size 6 needles (4.0 mm). I believe this is likely the next to the last dischcloth for me for a while. I’m down to the last of the cotton worsted yarn, and using it to knit this KAL with this week. So, that should wrap things up for the dishcloth flu.

Meanwhile…speaking of catching fiber bugs, I think I’m one of maybe 10 online knitters in the world who have not made Kate Gilbert’s Clapotis. I have always thought it was an intriguing pattern, but just never got caught up in the whole “oh I HAVE to knit that!” thing where it was concerned. That is until I saw this one. And she really hated using lace weight yarn to make it. So I’m not sure if maybe I’m just nuts (possible) or just like to blunder in to doing projects that defeat me (likely!) – but now I think I’ve gone from catching the dishcloth flu to catching the Clapotis…because I cast on my merino lace yarn and started this baby soon after I stumbled across her project on Ravelry.

This entrelac bib took one regular size skein of Sugar and Cream worsted weight yarn.  I used the entrelac pattern from Scarf Style for the Lady Eleanor stole, and just made less base triangles.  I knit until it looked “bib size” for a toddler, then knit the finishing row of triangles for the last row until I had about 1/4 of the stitches still on the needle, then just started a stockinette row, decreasing away from the neckline in kind of a “V” shape, and then tapering the strap down to just a few stitches, did a 2 stich bind off/cast on buttonhole, then finished off the strap.  Then I added one more triangle on the right side for a place to stitch a button (be sure it’s one that a toddler isnt going to be able to pull off and choke on – or else just go with a snap if you decided to “wing” one of these yourself).  No buttonhole needed if you’re setting snaps instead.  I think it came out fairly “unisex” but it’s going to a boy.  I think it’s got to be a great idea because not only is it a nice generous bib, but it can be used for clean up too since it’s made of dishcloth yarn.  Just run it under some tap water, clean up kid and surroundings, then rinse the whole thing off again and hang it up to dry!