A Bluestocking Knits

Quite a lot of our dishcloths are looking a bit ratty, so I got out a bunch of the little odds and ends of kitchen cotton left over from other cloths, and whipped up some new ones.  The two on the right are just Grandmother's Favorite, while the one on the left is a Quaker Ridging cloth.

I also got out the Muriwai Bath Mat to have a go at that, for my next WIPapalooza project — the receipt is dated "4/30/08" so that tells you how long it's been.  I couldn't tell at all how big it actually is, since it's been scrunched up on a single circular needle for five+ years, so I ran a piece of plastic trimmer string — straight off the spool — through the live stitches, so that I could actually spread it out and see how much more I need to do.  (It was much easier getting it back on the needle from the trimmer string than it would have been from a strand of yarn!)  I figure the mat will shrink more than a bit with washing, so say ten more rounds, and it will be done.  Of course, ten rounds is a lot by now ….