Something Simple

For this week's cloth I originally started out with a different pattern. It didn't work out. After frogging once, then after accidently being ripped out so badly I needed to frog it again, I decided that pattern could wait. I needed something quick and easy to make myself feel better.

After a little searching I knew this cloth would do very nicely. I was not disappointed.

This of course had a very easy to memorize pattern. It employs psso which I really like as a decrease. I had this cloth completely knit up after just a couple of old episodes of Mythbusters.  

One thing to note about this pattern is that it does not include a border. That is something that needs to be calculated in when you start knitting. I wanted this to be a bit bigger than some of my other cloths and so I used size 8 needles (5.0 mm). I cast on 31 stitches for the pattern and added 4 stitches on each side for a border for a total of 39 stitches. After washing (this cotton shrinks a lot) this wound up being a little over 8 inches square.

Like I said earlier, this cloth fit the ticket for being quick and easy. It was a good, almost mindless knit. It was a nicer little refresher after doing several rather complicated projects ( most of which were not cloths).

I do like the simple eyelets that this cloth has. However, I do think it is a tiny bit plain. But because of that, I think this would be a really great project for a beginner knitter.

 
Overall I like this cloth. It is definitely the thing to knit if you are looking for something simple and easy.