Way back when, almost three years ago, I knit a garterlac dishcloth during a very turbulent time in my life. I had only been knitting for about a year, and the lease was up on my apartment 50 feet from the Interstate in downtown Seattle, and I had two weeks to find a place to live. I fell in love with the pattern, because I could knit just a wee little square or triangle, and feel like I was making progress on it.
This weekend I was in the mood for some dishcloth knitting, so I decided to revisit the pattern. With three more years of knitting experience under my belt, the pattern was a piece of cake. I understood what was going on, and I barely needed to glance at the instructions. The last time I knit this pattern, I had to follow the pattern line by line and count every stitch. I flew through it, patting myself on the back for all the progress I’ve made as a knitter.
You know where this is going, right?
I’m not actually sure what happened. At least once, I must have turned one too many times and started knitting in the wrong direction. I think I may also have put a square where a triangle should have been.
And so it is that I had to rip back a dishcloth. Sheesh!
Fortunately it worked out alright the second time. I was duly humbled.
In that pre-rippage photo, it looks to have an interesting three-dimensional effect. Makes me wonder about knitting an entrelac ball, or some such.
You should call the tag “dishcloth art”. Always a treat.
Yeah, I agree with Pork with Bones – you could do something very ‘Norah Gaughan’ with version one.
Or perhaps a moebus dishcloth pattern?
Isn’t that fun though – to whiz through a pattern that formerly baffled you? (We’ll skip the knitting goddess smiting you).
Very pretty
*Claps* Congratulations!
I still can’t knit this pattern… I’ve tried several times. (Something about not knowing how to pick up stitches properly
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I’m happy to see that you can! And, I’d like to add that it looks awesome!
Yeah, knitting hubris will bite you in the ass every time. Ask me how I know.
Ooh, I’m jealous. I’m in the three-years-ago-you era of knitting patterns like that one. It’s way cool, though. May dip a toe in when things settle down a bit here…..HAH!
Beautiful finished dishcloth! Ripping and re-knitting is part of the process. Wouldn’t it be grand if we could so easily undo mistakes in other areas of life?
Thanks for the link to the pattern. I’ll definitely check it out!
‘You have learned a wise lesson my child’ says the man with the pointy beard to his apprentice.
I swear this reminded me of the 90′s karate movies where the little fella learns lessons that being cool ain’t so cool. I mean this in the nicest way really!
You’re a bigger person than me, I’d have never blogged about it ahhahaaa. See, you have achieved Zen.
Oh btw, cows, cakes? LOL, I did a double take when I read it. Thanks for explaining it to me.
To think, ppl get paid to think up wacky things like that. Erm, wonder if they’re hiring…hmmmmm
Entrlac frightens me… a newbie knitter. But I do love it. And… also…most important…. More puppies please!!! Pretty please!
very pretty, love the colors, they make me happy. So did the puppy and hen shots. I get two baby rats next month, I mean my daughter gets them .
I’m convinced that you can use the garterlac process to knit cubes to use as juggling balls. I suspect this because my second effort to knit this cloth came out nearly 3-d by accident…
I have made cubes and all kinds of 3-D shapes with entrelac. Check out my blog (link above).