I’ve been knitting on the cottage socks for my son and daughter-in-law this past week, but I have had one problem. The stitch patterns for their socks are a little complicated – gorgeous, but complicated - so I can’t just “sit and knit” these socks. I have to be focused and pay attention to row and stitch count.
Cottage socks in progress
That’s all well and good but I need something in the “car knitting” or” mindless knitting” category. And this morning, as I lay in bed, waiting for my alarm to go off (I hate it when I wake up 10 minutes before the alarm does!), inspiration hit.
I was remembering my sister’s house. She had a bunch of cotton dishcloths made with the Grandma’s Favorite Dishcloth pattern.
Grandma’s Favorite Dishcloth
She didn’t knit them herself (her craft is stunningly beautiful counted cross stitch) but had bought them at a flea market or someplace like that. I remembered how nice they are. Also how nice not to have to keep buying paper towels or sponges. I have knit a few in the past, and they are basically mindless knitting. When I got home from my trip, there was a sale on Sugar ‘N Cream at my local craft store so I stocked up.
And promptly forgot I had it.
Here’s the inspiration part: This morning, as I lay in bed, as was mentioned before, I was thinking about a post from Pam Young’s website about her new environmentally safe cleaning products and how she used her general cleaner to clean off a sign that had years of grime and mold. I was thinking about my kitchen floor and how it could use something that could cut years of grime easily because (confession time!!!) I rarely mop. Mostly because I keep running out of the Swiffer disposable wipes.Besides, Swiffer wipes just get of the first layer of grime so I have to use multiple wipes to clean my floor.
***** INSPIRATION TIME *****
I put two and two together and decided to design a “Grandma’s Favorite” mop head!! Then I can kill three birds with one stone: (1) I can mop my floor more often with Pam’s wonderful cleaners and a good mop head that scrubs really well to get off crud; (2) I can stop spending a lot of money (and time) going out to buy more wipes that tend to dry up before I use them; (3) MINDLESS KNITTING!!!
I’m so happy.
Is that my sock!!!!! Oh, it is SO cute!!!!!!!!!
Yes, the cream one with the red toe is yours. The other is Ben’s. I was going to surprise you but then it’s turning out so well that I thought I would post a picture of it in progress. I’m glad you like it.