Last year, when the covid nonsense first started, and my few ‘still visiting' friends were leery of touching anything anyone else had touched; I got out my knitting needles and whipped up a couple cotton fingertip towels for their use in the bathrooms … when they started visiting again: they were just a basic hand wipe job, with a textured body and a simple crocheted edging. But they worked well, and people liked them 😉
Over the months I did lose some of those friends when the blm anarchist PNW riots/wildfires started – the differences of opinions concerning the rioting did what covid could not. But I gained new friends to fill the void of those who were lured out of my life, and I am planning on small scale entertaining in 2021 😊
It will be a new experience: Bob and I did not entertain much … we were on the road most of the time; and I won’t be entertaining much either, as I still burn up the highways and byways 8 months out of the year, day-tripping/sight-seeing, and visiting friends in other counties – but I will be having friends in house occasionally. So, I am preparing for that eventuality.
This past week, I worked on new fingertip towels to replace the others. The eco-friendly dyes in the cotton yarn does not hold up well after many washings/dryings; and the cotton yarn starts to feel stiff, too – so new towels were in order 😉
My fingertip towel pattern is very simple.
I made 12 towels: 2 EA of various 6 edging designs.
This year, I added a decorative border along each towel end: I like the way they turned out 😉
==MOD FINGERTIP TOWELS
6 skeins Cotton Yarn (1 EA colors of MC choice); scraps of (CC1 & CC2) contrast yarns (1/4 to 1/3 skein) to match MC of choice; #10 knitting needles; Tapestry Needle
Terms used:
K=
Knit
P=
Purl
sts
= stitches
st
st = stockinette stitch: k 1 row; p 1 row
g st
= garter stitch
RS =
right side of work
WS =
wrong side of work
MC =
Main Color
CC =
Contrast Color
EO =
End off
Rpt = Repeat
BASIC TOWEL PATTERN (used for all towels): With CC1, CO on 40 sts; EO CC1.
With CC2, work 1 row 1x1 ribbing.
Continue with CC2, and work 3 rows g st; EO CC2.
With CC1, work 9 to 10 rows of a decorative border – a multiple of 2, 4, 6, or 8 sts will space across the towel nicely (always begin with a K row on RS, and a P row on WS).
Continue with CC1, and work 3 rows g st; EO CC1.
With MC, work 42 rows st st; EO MC.
With CC2, work 4 rows g st; EO CC2.
With CC1, work 1 row 1x1 ribbing; then P 1 row. EO CC1.
With tapestry needle, weave in loose ends.
That’s
it! Easy-peasy 😉
