Julia and I both seem to be overcoming our dishcloth procrastination at precisely the same time. I bought some super cheap kitchen cotton at Michaels literally years ago and it rotted at the back of a closet…until Friday evening. I started with one lowly little waffle cloth and suddenly I had somewhere to channel my lonely boredom.
Seven dishcloths! Jealous?
And now I can kick myself well and good for being a tard and putting them off so long.
Pattern: Waffle Knit Dishcloth and Double Bump Cloth (which are almost identical patterns but I got a bit bored on that last one)
Yarn: Bernat Handicrafter Cotton and Scheepjes Cotton 8
Flickr seems to have dulled my colours. Does that ever happen to anyone else?
The funny thing is, I should have known how quick dishcloths are to make – I made some for my mom a few mother’s days ago (yeah – just what every mum wants – cleaning supplies). I think those were a little fiddlier and that turned me off. I never took photos of them but I remember one was this. Another amusing note: the purple / blue held togehter is the Cotton 8, which was one of the first yarn I ever bought in November or December 2004. The ridiculous thing? I bought it to make wrist warmers. Out of cotton. I was dumb.
In continuance of the pastel Easter cheesy craftiness I also blew some eggs on Friday night.
I heart glitter.
And arranged them in a supercheese fashion:
Awwwwww
What can I say? I love Easter and I love glitter. Especially this Martha Stewart glitter. Being a teacher in the public school system I’m used to dollar store chopped tinsel but this stuff is like multi-faceted pixie dust. As a true child of the eighties I approve. The instructions are here. But please don’t come crying to me when you find sparkles in your cereal.
Whistlepea 
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April 7, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Brenda
You have my admiration. I have never ‘blown’ an egg.
April 7, 2009 at 6:41 pm
tiennie
I love all the pastelly goodness! Sparkly glitter is good too. :)
April 7, 2009 at 9:54 pm
julia
You put my dishcloth output to shame.
And FYI – the only thing nerdier than making decorative Easter crafts with Martha Stewart glitter? The fact that I KNEW that was Martha Stewart glitter before I read the description. We have issues.
April 7, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Stacey
I really need to make more dishcloths. We only have one here and we use it for a potholder. Or to hold the bottom of your soup bowl so you can eat while sitting on the couch watching tv.
This cracks me up:
“I bought it to make wrist warmers. Out of cotton. I was dumb.”
Mind you, I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you. (Well, assuming you are laughing about it now.) I did a LOT of that when I first started knitting. I still have balls of yarn that I thought I was going to make something specific with, but then started something else. Then, over the years I’ve realized that it never would have worked. Poor choice of yarn. I think we all do it.
April 8, 2009 at 6:16 am
Cara
I also love glitter….(ahem– sparkly toilet seats anyone?) but then it is with you for days afterwards. It is definitely the herpes of craft supplies.
April 8, 2009 at 6:27 am
Lolly
sparkles!! how great is that!
ha – this reminds me of all of the dishcloth cotton I have in my stash and how I promised I would make cloths one of these days… good for you for seizing the moment. Seems like a great quickie project :)
April 8, 2009 at 7:56 am
Ingrid
Why is it that we knitters never have any decent dishcloths? I really need to put a rush on knitting some up for myself.
And isn’t Martha glitter amazing? I can’t get enough of it.
April 9, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Robyn
Adorable eggs! So colorfully sparkly! I love sparkles. Even 80’s style sparkles. (Child of the 80’s!)
Nice dish cloth assortment. I eventually need to make some more too!
April 10, 2009 at 8:29 am
lorna
would love some of those,keep makin them!
April 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Krystyna
Thanks for the craft idea, I made some sparkle eggs with the in-laws. We used sparkles that they already had, but his dad and I have decided we need some Martha Stewart Sparkles for the next attempt! The other fun thing is we used these wooden eggs they bought from Lee Valley years ago so they aren’t as fragile. Sparkles were everywhere… even Andrew’s brother was sparkling and he wasn’t around when we did them.