Dishcloths and Marriage

When DD3's teacher invited us to her wedding I was just beginning to experience dishcloth fever. I decided to knit a dozen to give as a wedding gift. "Lizard Ridge Dishcloth" by Laura Aylor was in my Ravelry queue and I cast on. (I think you have to have a Ravelry account to see those pages.) I worked with five colors, combining them every which way.

From My Legacy

The short rows in lizard ridge are engaging: knit to the where the wide place should be, then back and forth a few times, then a long stretch to the next wide place. One dishcloth is made with only one color. One dishcloth has the ridge of two of the stripes one color and the filling, if you will, another color. The remaining dishcloths are striped, with the ridge and the filling the same color. Project details are available on this public Ravelry page: Colorful Dishcloths!

I gave the first two to Maureen for her birthday, so I really made fourteen.

Tonight at the School Around Us (SAU) 40th Anniversary party, the brides told me how the dishcloths have eliminated one of those little rubs that makes co-habitation so challenging. It seems that one doesn't like to squeeze the sponge and the other doesn't like to encounter the unsqueezed sponge. So they have cast aside the sponge and taken up the dishcloth. May they live happily ever after!