MOD SHORTIE IN-THE-PINK VALENTINE Kitchen Towel

I designed this kitchen towel to match a heart dishcloth I had designed a while ago – there is no pattern for the dishcloth, but it is pretty simple to make: I used a Valentine’s candy box insert as a guide and increased/decreased accordingly until my dishcloth was finished to my satisfaction. Easy-peasy. 

This towel is a mishmash combination.

This towel set has 3 different colors of pink in the design: The dishcloth was made with Hot Pink … and a lighter pink that is no longer made. The towel was made with Hot Pink cotton yarn – with a contrast worsted yarn topper; because I had enough scrap yarn of that type to actually finish up.

This towel is a shortie because I ran out of main color cotton yarn ☹

But, it is long enough to suffice: I am a shortie too, which means, I have small hands 😉

And I added a white star button because everyone is a star on Valentines Day … and the star buttons only came in three colors: white matches the design better than a bright red, or blue, would have 😊

Despite the patched together design process, I think the towel turned out okay.

Finished towel … just in time for Valentine’s Day 😊

I’m not really a pattern writer … I aimlessly jot down chicken-scratch-notes as I work along for personal reference (which doesn’t mean anything to anyone else), so I hope this pattern in understandable to the rest of you.

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Cotton yarn in Hot Pink

# 10-1/2 knitting needles

#J/10 crochet hook

 

CO 73 sts & work 4 rows Moss Stitch.

Work 4 rows stockinette st, keeping each end of towel in 6 sts moss stitch pattern.

Towel hem and border; I marked each end sts to keep the border pattern straight.

Row 9: Work 6 sts in Moss St pattern for side trim; then work as follows: K 6, *P 1, K 11*; repeat * to * across row – end K 6 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 10: 6 sts Moss St, P 5, *K 3, P 9*; rpt * to * across row – end P 5 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 11: 6 sts Moss St, K 4, *P 5, K 7*; rpt * to * across row – end K 4 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 12: 6 sts Moss St, P 3, *K 7, P 5*; rpt * to * across row – end P 3 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 13: 6 sts Moss St, K 2, *P 9, K 3*; rpt * to * across row – end K 2 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 14: 6 sts Moss St, P 3, *K 3, P 1, K 3, P 5*; rpt * to * across row – end P 3 and 6 sts moss st.

Row 15: 6 sts Moss St, K 4, *P 1, K 3, P 1, K 7*; rpt * to * across row – end K 4 and 6 sts moss st.

Heart Pattern hemline.

Row 16: Work 1 row purl, keeping 6 sts EA END in Moss Stitch Pattern.

Continue now in stockinette st, keeping each end in moss st, for a total of 53 rows from beginning: end wrong side of work. If you want a longer towel, and have enough yarn … work 61 rows.

Decrease for towel topper as follows: P 2 – P 3 tog across row to last 2 sts: end P 2 sts.

Change from knitting needles to crochet hook and work in sc as follows: dec 1 st EA end until 8 sts remain.

Sc for 13 rows.

Sl st x5; ch 6 and sl st in same sp; sl at to end. Turn.

Dc x12 in chain loop; EO.

Add decorative trim, of your choice, around button loop.

Sew button in place and weave in loose ends.

PEOPLE HAVE GONE SILENT

Everyone is silent. Friends and acquaintances – who, only a week ago – was full of laughter and chit-chat have gone silent: there is nothing to say that has not been said; there is nothing new happening in any of our lives … there is nothing to say, nothing to respond to. I sense (in some of them) that their hope has been squashed and they are not responding well to the news that vaccines are not a readily available as the minions in DC would have them believe … and now the mandate is to wear two/three masks, instead of the demanded one, has them in a tail-spin as hope shatters.

Lives have been tampered with. 

Livelihoods have been interfered with. 

Income has been severely cut into. 

Business have been closed permanently.

Schools have become hollow echo chambers (I actually think this is a good thing): parents and children are aimlessly wondering around wondering what they will do with their lives, now. Some will tear their hair out until schools reopen: some will make a better choice, and decide to redirect their lives for the better. I have friends in both camps.

Lives have been lost to other ends, besides covid.

The present has been halted … and the future looks empty.

Homes have become prisons.

Outside entertainments have been declared “unsafe killing grounds”.

Talk and activity is being boldly examined and censored by the tyrannical DC minions and their social media lapdogs. Talk … that has not been checked “acceptable” by the obamanites across the board, in every aspect of life in America … has become an uncomfortable activity in today’s inflammatory political atmosphere.

The demonrat communist socialists in DC, and in leadership positions in State offices, have ramped up their dictator activities … and a checkmate scenario is now in full play.

Generally, there is a feeling of unease and barely contained rebellion – the atmosphere in America is very explosive right now. People have pulled back; some in a cocoon of basement-dwelling-fear, some in a state of springed readiness to move forward.

Everyone is holding their breath, assessing their next move.

People have gone silent.

Except for me.

I refuse to be dictated to, boxed up, put aside, and silenced.

My life still goes on.

I live for Elohim.

I live for me.