Ooh, look! It's Ann's first ballband cloth!
It was surprisingly easy. It shouldn't have been surprising--people kept telling me it was easy!And here's Grandma's stole/wrap/thing so far.
I took a poll at Stitch & Bitch last night, and the consensus was that I shouldn't double the turquoise stripe. So I'm not. See? I'm starting a new white stripe.I just realized that the ballband cloth and the stole/wrap/thing match. Looks like I'm on a white/turquoise/lilac kick... How odd.
And now, I'm going home.
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Ooh, pretty knitting. The cloth isn't hard? Knitted or crocheted? Where did you find the pattern? I'm still trying to work up the nerve to try the KAL cable dishcloth. I go in color spurts too, I think.
I'm going home now too.
Love, Mom
I meant to tell you, I followed the link to the old patterns site and downloaded the free pattern book. What a hoot to see the models in their hats and gloves and realize that was the year I was born. That's what women looked like then! Amazing!
Mom,
The cloth is knitted. The pattern came from the band around the ball of Peaches & Creme; hence the name "ballband cloth"! There's this whole crazy culture of ballband cloth knitting out there--people get addicted to making these. It's pretty easy--just knits, purls, and slipping stitches purlwise. You even carry the colors up along the side, so you don't have extra ends to weave in.
I find it odd that I'm using these particular colors; they're not ones I normally gravitate towards. It probably helps that I bought the cotton to make stuff for Abby, and I bought the other yarn particularly for Grandma.
I'm making the "Country Club" pattern from that book; I added the stripey-ness because I couldn't find enough of one color!
This is a very long comment.
Love you!
Ann
Congratulations on your first ballband, it looks great!! I am officially burnt out on that pattern after making 16 dishcloths in under two weeks. I have decided to donate all of the colors of kitchen cotton that I don't like to get them out of my life instead of trying to knit them into dishcloths.
Thanks, Robyn! I can definitely see how you could have gotten burned out on them. Does that mean you're not going to make a ballband rug, like you'd planned?
Actually, I just ordered the yarn for the ballband rug. I think it will be happier project since I am using colors I love instead of desperately trying to use up colors I don't really like.
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