Two new pages have been added for your use and enjoyment:
The Illusion Knitting Cloths page includes a link to other web sites containing information on this technique.
In the past week links have been added to several other pages. Dead links on some of the pages have been removed. Unfortunately more need to be removed. This will be done as time allows.
Posted in Uncategorized
A new page has been added with a few patterns listed. Hopefully there will be more soon:
Posted in Looming, Patterns for sale, Towel Toppers, Uncategorized
As you look through the pages here in the upcoming weeks you will start finding signs of updating. Dead links will be removed and hopefully be replaced by new ones. New pages will be added. Grammatical errors on my part will be corrected. Articles on a variety of topics will be posted.
Even though completing all of these changes will take a while, they are being worked on almost daily. Please be patient with me. This is only one aspect of my busy life.
Posted in Broken Links, Site Update
One year ago, August 6, 2006, this blog was started at another blogging site. My motivation was my increasing fascination with dish and wash cloths. At that time I was not working outside the home and was beginning to search for free patterns available on the internet for these items. My original batch of dishcloths was wearing out after several years hard labor. It was time to replace them. There was plenty of cotton yarn in my stash. I wanted new patterns to keep me interested in replacing them. Thus began a blog that has truly changed my life.
Within a couple of months and after experiencing much frustration with the limitations of the previous site, I moved this blog here to WordPress. It was a good move. The people here have been and are very helpful with their support and encouragement. This includes the paid support staff who have answered my questions about Terms of Service and technical questions. It also includes the volunteers and readers of the Forums who have graciously given support and input when I have asked for it. Please accept my thanks.
This site has grown from having a few links in the sidebar to having 38 pages of patterns. There are also two pages waiting to be posted until a little bit more work has been done on them. The patterns listed here are mainly knitted or crocheted. One of my goals is to add a page with loomed dish or wash cloth patterns in the upcoming weeks.
This has proven to be an unusually busy summer which has permitted little time on the computer. That will be changing in the next couple of weeks.
I have no exact idea of the number of patterns listed here. There are more in my files to be listed as time allows.
The most amazing aspect of this blog is the number of hits it has received in the past year. It also amazes me to see how many times it is used on a daily basis. These numbers please and humble me at the same time. I never imagined in my wildest dreams that this blog would be referred to as frequently as it is. Thank you to each of you who finds this site useful.
The other aspect of this blog that surprises and delights me is to see it listed on the sidebar of other people’s Blogs. It is one thing for me to place a link on my blog, yet it is another matter to find my own blog on that of others. Thank you for finding it pleasing and useful enough to do so.
I also extend a sincere Thank You to the many designers who have granted permission to allow links to their work to be added to this blog. We as a members of the Fiber Arts community benefit from your generosity.
It is my most sincere hope and goal to maintain this blog in such a manner that it will continue to be a resource for makers and lovers of dish and wash cloths and related items for a long time.
Norma
Posted in Blogging, Blogs With Cloths, crochet, Crochet Cloths, crocheting, Designers, free patterns, knit, Knit Cloths, Knitting, Looming
Looming has been added as a technique for making dish and wash cloths. As items made in this way are found, they will be added to the pages of this blog. This blog remains a work in progress so time will tell if these items get their own page.
Posted in Looming
There have been two more pages added to this blog today:
I have been wanting to do this for a while, but was concerned about violating the Terms of Service with WordPress. The reply to my note to Support today provided permission to add these pages without violating these rules. 🙂
Please be aware that these pages are works in progress and are by no means complete. If you know of a site or sites you wish to see here, feel free let me know in the comments section of this blog. Please understand that my response time is sometimes not immediate due to commitments to my family and my employer.
Posted in Patterns for sale, Site Update, Yarn for sale
There have been additions to the following pages today:
A new page titled Bath Sets has been added. At this time it only contains knitted items. I have not decided exactly what items to list here. Crocheted items will be added as time allows. That probably will not happen this weekend.
Enjoy!
Posted in crochet, Knitting, Site Update
Dish and Wash Cloth Mania 