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Monday, January 6, 2020

Legacy project: Face Cloths

My sister left some unfinished projects, and I brought them home to see what I could finish. This was the first, and easiest. The yarn was all together, I knew who they were for, and the first one was complete. No pattern needed beyond reading the knitting. They were mindless tv knitting after my  brain was worn smooth by more difficult projects. So here are a dozen face cloths, made of Mary Maxim Scrub It in Sky, Mocha, Cotton, and Harbor, and worked in seed stitch over 36 stitches and 62 rows on size US 8.



I have to say that the care instructions on the yarn were the funniest things I have ever come across: "Wash using gentle/delicate cycle for 2 minutes. Tumble dry using low heat for a maximum of 5 minutes. Remove and lay flat to dry." Can you imagine? I made a tiny swatch (24 stitches, 24 rows) and washed it with my towels - hot water, extra rinse, high dryer setting, and it came out no different than the ones I hadn't washed yet. I would wash them in cold water and low heat to preserve the colors, but that's all the fuss I would make.

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