New things

While the jack of all trades

was up to his neck in

all things refrigerated

I decided it was a good time for me to learn something new!

Nothing more calming, when listening to complaints

about badly designed appliances and wrong part numbers,

than to teach yourself

something that involves concentration and lots of counting stitches.

Right?

Oh, you think not?

Well, I have never made a cable stitch,

so I thought I would learn.

And behold what three cable stitches

become.

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AN OWL!!!

The colour will not show properly,

because the light is all wrong

but you can see the little

hooter,

can't

you?

I looked up "owl cloth" on the "internets"

and this showed up.

I am sorry I don't have the site anymore,

because I closed the page before saving it!!

A consequence of being called upon to help,

once again.

Then I went surfing the blogs and encountered all manner of

kitchen cloths.

I would love to know just how many of these little cotton wonders are now present on this planet.

For those of you who do not partake in all things

yarn and hooks and needles,

the current rage is to make

old fashioned cotton cloths

to use in the kitchen

or bathroom.

There are vintage patterns available

and you too

can have those

knickers that grandma had

or that little teapot shaped one

or this

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a big honking flower cloth

with which to lift your lids.

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or these in many colours and patterns.

They work up very fast and are actually

quite sweet and they do the job they were created for,

so I'm not crocheted cloth bashing here,

just observing the phenom......

and they are quite addictive.

The majority of these are just casting on stitches

and knitting or crocheting until it's big enough.

the big Honking Flower is my version of

'Marigold" #209 in 200 crochet blocks by

Jan Eaton, and the yellow one is also from that book and is called lemon peel and is #52.

It is just 1sc and 1dc on 30 stitches.

So, that is what I have done.

In the stitchery department anyway.