Little Gift Dishcloth

I had fun crocheting a simple cotton dishcloth in green, pink and yellow for a friend.

Her favorite colors are green, pink and yellow.  

I made up the pattern - just double crochet, single crochet across.

Additional information available on Ravelry (here).

Aren't these pretty SPRING colors!

Be My Valentine Dishcloth

Be My Valentine!

Isn't that a cute name for this dishcloth?

This is one very cute dishcloth. 

 I loved the stitches and the colors used in the pattern and had to try making one.

I found some similar colors in my Lily Sugar n' Cream cotton yarn stash. 

 It worked up nicely until about the 5th round and then mine started to curl up slightly...even though my stitch counts seemed to be correct.

Even so I will try this free pattern again (here) - the next time I will try adding some stitches on the outer rounds to lessen it's tendency to curl.

I love the bobble stitches in red in the fourth round.

And wait until you see how the circle of hearts on the outer round are crocheted.

Have fun trying out this dishcloth.  

Keep crocheting!

Little Star Dish Cloth

Want a cute and easy dish cloth to crochet?

Well, I'm cleaning and straightening out our Danish wall units in our family room. 

 That's where I store my crochet books and free patterns I print out. 

While cleaning I found this adorable pattern (go here to download a pdf) from Bella Crochet called "Little Star Dish Cloth".

 Update:  If you don't want to sign up to get the free pdf at the link above, you can go directly to Bella Crochet's blog to print out the pattern (here).

It's so cute. 

I like using my crocheted dish cloths in the kitchen.  

Smaller ones in a size like this one - fits my hand just right - and when it's dirty just throw in it the clothes washer.  

 I'm going to make two more in coordinating colors. 

 I'm using cotton yarn and it's so thick to hook with compared to acrylic.

Hubby and I watched this program on cable TV today called "Extreme RVs".  There's a company in Denver that takes used Air Stream trailers and customizes them for clients.   I've always wanted to take a vintage trailer and fix it up. We love our "Little Guy" (Pleasure Way travel van) but we are always thinking what will be our next RV down the road. Hubby is favoring a small motorhome C, like a "Born Free," and towing a Jeep Wrangler.   Nothing like daydreaming....

Hubby went out to run some errands and I said to him, "What shall I do this afternoon?"

 "Do I crochet, blog, watch TV or read?" 

 So many choices for a retired gal to consider.

Life is good. 

 And we have another trip to Walt Disney World coming soon. 

 Yippee!

 I'm going to see if I can order this vintage crochet pattern (here) - and yes, make a black and white blanket.

I really like it.

Mickey likes it too.

And how is your day going?

Mod Gingham Dishcloth

I love GINGHAM!

I was in Pinterest today and did a search for "gingham" and was delighted with the results. 

 Lots of pretty gingham to drool over.

And I found a free Lily Sugar n' Cream gingham dishcloth pattern!

It's similar to the pattern I'm using to make my Gingham Blanket (here). 

 I tried a few rows in acrylic yarn just to see the pattern layout. 

For a dishcloth I would use the cotton yarn instead of acrylic.

Of course by extending the foundation row you could make a small baby throw.

Link for the free Mod Gingham Dishcloth pattern (here).

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I made a goof today.

Can you guess what this is?

I know it's not pretty.

This is the dust container for our central vacuum system.

The dark thingy in the middle is a knee high stocking.

I was using it on the end of my vacuum hose to clean fake flowers today.

And it was working quite well - sucking all that dust right off the flowers.

Of course I was too lazy to put a rubber band around it to securely hold it in place.

I didn't need any dumb rubber band.  

I could hold it in place.

Ha!!!

Right!

I accidentally stupidly let go of the stocking...

 ...and it was amazing how quickly it disappeared down that vacuum hose.  

I quickly turned off the vacuum hoping that it was still trapped within the hose section and hadn't reached the vacuum pipe system.

When Hubby got home and I explained what happened he said it would be highly unlikely that the stocking was still within the hose section.  

He said once it is in the hose it travels.very.quickly.

So he checked it out.

He was right... it wasn't in the hose section.

He found the stocking in the vacuum system dust container. 

Well, thank goodness it didn't jam up the pipe system.  

That's what I was afraid would happen.

So it ended OK. 

I learned my lesson.  

I got off easy this time.

LOL !