The MasonDixon Girls of www.masondixonknitting.com keep me intertained quite often, and every once in awhile there is a gem on their blog that just makes my day. And so, it happened one day, when the sunflower dishrag made its appearance. I am just nuts over sunflowers, and this pattern just had to be a part of my ever growing collection of dishrags. The best part was that it was a part of a dishrag calandar, www.knittingcalendar.blogspot.com, that can be downloaded with each month of the year having two dishrags to knit. The calendar comes complete with instructions for making each dishrag.
Little did I know, that I would play a very small but important part of this very calendar. In the wee hours of the night, I downloaded my copy of the calendar on cardstock and after some sleep , got busy on the dishrag. Determination mixed with excitement motivated me, but three trial runs later I knew something was wrong. There was a little mix-up in the pattern, and once I figured it out, it was an easy knit. I had received an e-mail from Kay about testing out the pattern earlier, and so I shoot off a quick e-mail back with “the fix”, and all is now well with this pattern.
In Kay’s comments about her dishrag, she said that it had not touched a drop of water. I feel the same about mine. It is a bit of folkart that may hang on the wall instead of shrinking in the wash cycle. It will never mop up spilt apple juice, or a glob of strawberry jam that has slipped off the knife while making PB&J sandwiches. It will never grace the hot handle of a pot or lid, or be a coaster for a drippy mug of coffee. It will never be held under a cold bowl of ice cream. It will never clean the fingers of the 2yr. old after an attempt at cracking an egg, or scrub the top of the table where the playdough has been……OH No,…..this baby is ART!
