FO Friday -- Joe Cool Edition

Just flew back from KC, where I had a pretty decent day and a half.  I'd have called it good until I inadvertently poured my diet coke into my work bag (with my knitting) on the plane on the way home.  Sigh.  Some of my notes are looking a little less than pristine at the moment, but I was able to rescue both yarn and sock chunk without any damage.  Phew! 

And, as it happens, I've arrived just in time to participate in FO Friday (that's 3 in a row for me - a personal best!).  It turns out that there are lots of pluses to knitting dish cloths.  In no particular order...

They're super functional.
They're a quick and satisfying knit.
I get to play along with FO Friday more often when I knit small stuff.
Oh, and they're pretty stinkin' cute...

Pretty awesome.  In my fantasy world, I'll knit enough of these to keep in the kitchen so we'll cut our paper towel usage by something like 80 or 90%.  I'd say completely, but let's face it -- I'm not going to pick up dog barf with a hand-knit washcloth, nor am I going to use it to drain bacon.  I'm sure there are more things that are classified as paper-towel-only jobs in my brain, but those are the two that pop to mind right off.  We'll see how that goal plays out over the next few months.

I'm also a little bit in awe of the amazing designs that are out there.  My personal favorite dish cloth designer is Faerwear (who's also on Ravelry).  I could totally knit a blanket out of those squares.  But really, somewhere out there, there's a dish cloth design for just about anything.  Must explore more.

Thus ends the dish cloth treatise.  Are you a believer?

Happy Weekend, y'all!

ps. The Snoopy Dish cloth pattern is free here, and I knitted it up with Sugar and Cream cotton yarn, in case that's the sort of stuff that keeps you awake at night.