I’ve been doing some clearing out, and there are things I don’t want any more that really, are too good to be thrown out.

These are a case in point:

• 12 copies of Everyday Food (6-15 plus 18-19)
• To Do List Magazine Premiere Issue

Anyone want to do a swap? I’ll throw in some crafty bits and bobs from my stash.
Email me: oscarcat @ gmail . com – gone

(Only proviso – you don’t spend any money, except postage. Let’s swap what we have. 🙂

In other news, everything is growing, i’m going yarn shopping tomorrow, and we’re having a Paris-Roubaix party on sunday. I’m digging out the pompoms, and making rocky road!

I have never been a big fan of cotton yarn – or rather when making clothes I’m not a fan of wearing cotton. I tend to use cotton yarn to make bags, or cushion covers.

But Mason-Dixon Knitting has me hunting out my cotton, and planning to buy more.

(I know… I’m bad. I’m supposed to be Using What I Have. I may be about to be bad. Maybe. We shall see.)

I am making Dishrags, and I’m addicted.

This is the first one I made. It uses the pattern as written, and is using some of the really really lovely cotton yarn that came as part of my Gifty Package (Thank you Heels!)

It knitted up in no time, and was a nice interesting knit, thanks to the decreases.

But I wanted more…

This is Rowan Cotton Glace. It’s 4ply, and also lovely.  I adapted the pattern (cast on 240, with 39 stitches between each bobble), and knit like the wind. 

I’m such a sucker for 4ply.  I had just under a ball when I started, and about half/one-third of a ball left when I finished. I think you could easily get 3 dishrags out of 2 balls. (I’ll start a second one after I finish the purple one I’m working on at the moment, and have a better idea then.)

My housemate thinks they are too lovely to use. Little does he know – they are lovely enough to use, and this way we shouldn’t have a kitchen full of dead green sponges that won’t bio-degrade.

Plus the centers are ripe for experimentation and lace-practice.

What’s not to love?

So this:

became this:

became these:

🙂

And while I was at it, I Used What I Had and made myself a bag for random shopping, and taking library books back.

There wasn’t enough for a full lining, but since it’s that shiny oil-cloth used for kitchen table clothes, I figured it just needed extra support around the handles.

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Once they have dried I’ll show you my new obsession. Not that I spent every spare moment this weekend knitting or anything…