Newly knitted, soft and squishy or rough and scratchy for those stubborn bits of leftover lunch
Freshly laundered, new and shiny or old and holey.
Plain, simple and forever practical or full of elaborate patterns and fancy scalloped edges.
Dishes might be boring but that doesn't mean your dish cloths have to be!
I do love a good dishie (wash cloth, dish cloth or if you are my Nan reincarnated a "flannel").
Created during those between project and my-brain-is-too-tired-to-follow-a-pattern moments, knitted cloths are a staple in my "present box". They are practical, hard-wearing and totally eco-friendly. The ones I've kept for our own use last for years and when they get totally threadbare go into the household compost.
They have, over the last decade or so, become a much requested Christmas/Birthday/Housewarming gift and will occasionally make it into an online listing.
If you are a knitter, there are lots of lovely dish/washcloth patterns out there. A quick google search will give you more patterns than you could ever hope to knit (or crochet or sew, if that's more your jam) in a lifetime, but I like truly vintage ones, like this one I found in a WW2 era woman's magazine. I don't bother with the crochet edge unless it's a gift.
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