A Bluestocking Knits

Becky of Knitting Interrupted wants to know what is your most-used knitting project?

Well, I’d love to say that it’s something stylish like my Clapotis,

which is certainly one of my favorite projects, both in the making and the wearing, but here in Hong Kong it’s just too warm now, except if I crank up the air conditioner, and back home in Southern California there will be only perhaps four months of the year when I’ll be able to wear it, not counting the odd autumn evening outdoors when I want to toss it around my shoulders.

Another candidate is a shawl I started just before my oldest daughter was born, out of some Jaeger silk/wool blend that my mom gave me.  I basically made up the pattern as I went along, knitting a stockinette stitch square from the center out until I ran out of the main color, a sort of golden-brown putty, then worked the border in Old Shale in red and white with the last ball of the brown.  This color is not really one that I would have chosen myself, but the finished shawl is big, soft, and very cozy, just the thing when curling up with a book on a rainy afternoon.

But, to be perfectly honest, the knitted things I use the most are these —

Plain old garter stitch squares, in Sugar ‘N Cream kitchen cotton worked from corner to corner.  I’m afraid that’s a curry stain on one of them.  We use them every day, these humble little workhorses.  I’ve made dozens.  About four bucks for two balls at Michaels gets you five dishcloths — can’t beat that.