Sunday, April 27, 2014

Self Striping Cotton Yarn Dishcloth

I've been looking at this Self Striping Cotton Yarn for Dishcloths for a while now and with the summer holidays coming up decided to grab a skein of red, white and blue to try it out. While the OCD me would love to crack the code to end up with perfectly even stripes... I don't think that will ever happen. But I do think this "wavy striped" one will be just fine for dishes:@)
The yarn does have little coloring flaws, like that blob of blue in the middle... But this was a nice easy way to make a colorful dishcloth that has big blocks of color without having to use three different skeins of yarn and weave in a bunch of ends.
I used my standard One-sie Two-sie Pattern:
Using an I hook and 100% cotton yarn-
~Ch 27
~SC first row, ch 1, turn
~*SC first hole, DC next hole, repeat from *, Ch 1, turn
~When about 8" square, SC last row.
If all goes well, every row except the first and last will begin with a single crochet and end with a double crochet...

 Do you have a pattern you like to use with this striped yarn?

Have a happy day:@)

PS-You may have noticed a post I put up briefly mentioning that these colors bled... a lot.
In nosing around the net I found this, hope it helps others:

Well, what do you know? On the back of the Sugar n Cream label, way under the free pattern, it says:
Wash colors separately. SOME COLORS MAY RUN. (I'm not shouting; it's in caps on the label!)
So I went to the website www.sugarncream.com and in Questions and Answers it says:
"16. How do you set the dye in a yarn / garment to prevent the dye from coming off on hands and needles while working with it? 
Knit your project, and soak it in a solution of the following: 1-2 c PICKLING SALT and COLD WATER. Set for half an hour. Rinse THOROUGHLY in water. Soak again in VINEGAR and WATER. Set for half an hour. Rinse THOROUGHLY."