Very First FO!

I’m finally proud to post my very first finished object!

It’s not much, just one of Grandmother’s Favorite Dishcloths, but I’m very excited about it. It’s Lion Brand Lion Cotton yarn in colorway “Denim Swirl,” since Andrew and I have a blue scheme going on in the kitchen. I learned that yarn overs are nothing to be afraid of, nor are knit 2 togethers. If finishing a dishcloth feels this good, I can’t wait to see what it’s like to finish a sweater!

I love the pretty eyelet border that the YO’s made! I thought it was especially fun seeing my progress on this piece, compared to the Boring Scarf (which is currently hibernating while I move on to learning the purl stitch – I’ll get around to finishing it eventually). Since the dishcloth is done on the diagonal, I  got to see it grow in width and then shrink back down to the original four stitches at the end. It went really fast, too, which I think I needed. The bind-off corner is the pointy one, but I did a kind of half-assed blocking last night and it evened out a lot.

Now, as I mentioned, I’m determined to learn the purl stitch so that I can finally start making things I’m willing to give to other people. The project I’ve chosen for this is another dishcloth, since the first gifts I intend to give are dishcloth/towel sets. So I’m making myself one for practice!  I’ve chosen a pawprint motif, of course. Bet you weren’t expecting that!

I’m only a few rows in, mostly because I had to frog it this evening after I took a break, because I got confused as to which side was supposed to be knit across, and which side was supposed to follow the knit/purl pattern to make the picture. But now that my hands know the motion of the purl stitch a bit, I was able to get back to about the point where I made the mistake fairly quickly.

I’m surprised at how I’ve been able to pick this up using basically only the videos from knittinghelp.com to learn. I’m not really much of a visual-spatial person. I can’t recommend the videos enough! Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of the pawprint cloth and the beginning of my REAL projects!