I've decided to not push myself to be something that I am not. I am what I am and trying to change my basic nature is difficult and fruitless. I'm trying to pay more attention to who I am and less to who I want to be. I may want to be a finisher but really I'm a starter. A starter who starts something and then gets distracted by some nice yarn or a need for something and then jumps into something else.
Like a wash rag.
I finally went to JoAnn Fabrics to get the reinforcer stuff for my bag and since I was there I decided I should take a look around. They had spangles and glitters and buttons and fancy papers, it was pretty spectacular. Plus weird things that made me think of ladies with 30 cats. I found myself wandering around the yarn section generally making faces at all of the acrylics, when I saw the Sugar 'n Cream. Mmmm...Sugar 'n Cream. This stuff is cotton yarn that makes the best wash rags for doing dishes. Truly it's amazing. You've got to try it, the dishes get so clean with much less elbow grease than you would use with a normal 52 cent dishrag from Target. Plus it comes in a fantastic array of colors, some pretty and some not very. AND it only cost 2.75 per ball. DEALS!!! I couldn't resist. I managed to stop myself at three balls of it which was kind of amazing because I had 7 of them in my hand at one point. Great restraint Katie. Then I went home and instead of working on my bag I made this:
Mitered Wash-a-rag:
Yarn: Sugar 'N Cream 100% cotton
Needles: Size 10 1/2
Cast On 51 Stitches
Row 1 and all other odd rows: Knit
Row 2: Knit (K) 24 Slip 1 (sl 1) Knit 2 together (K2tog) Pass slipped stitch over (psso) Knit to end
Row 4: K 23, sl 1, K2tog, psso, K to end
Row 6: K22, sl 1, K2tog, psso, K to end
Continue decreasing like this every even row until you have 5 stitches left.
Second to last row: K2tog, K1, K2tog (should be the end of the row)
Last row: sl 1, K2tog, psso
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