My friend, Jen posts the Leisure Arts Blog. Recently she knit the Princess for a Day dress dishcloth. I wanted to share her post with you. So here it is!
"I realized that it’s been a while since I knitted a
dishcloth dress, so I had to remedy that immediately! I love all of the patterns in DishclothDresses but the Princess for a Day pattern really grabbed me. So I made it!
This takes about 55 yards of yarn, and you have to be sure
to set aside a little separate amount to work one side of the bodice.
Other
than that, this is one of the few patterns that doesn’t require switching up
your yarns. Sometimes I’m in the mood for
that sort of thing. Sometimes I’m
not. I had a blast knitting a patriotic
version of
Happy Day #2 for the
4th of July last summer, but this time I felt like the
variegated yarn would be enough. I know
these colors aren’t especially princessy, but they’re so cheerfully
summery! They make me think of kitchen
decorating styles back when shows with names like “Princess for a Day” were on
the air.
This was a quick and easy knit, and I had a blast making it
just like I was always do. My work tends
to get a bit gappy when I have to make a lot of decreases in just a few rows, so
I was careful this time to pull my yarn tight after each decrease stitch in the
bodice so that the knitted fabric looked tight and tidy. I love how this looks! Maybe
it’s my favorite dishcloth dress yet? I won't know if it's my favorite
dishcloth dress of all time until I knit them all, and I do plan to
find out which one is my favorite someday.
One thing I do want to note: the vertical lines of knit
stitches on the skirt. I love them. But
the pattern calls for slipping your stitches as if to purl them, and then
purling them on the next row. Maybe
it’s
because I twist all of my stitches (I could have tried to learn how to
knit
correctly once I discovered this, but I quickly realized I wouldn’t have
a
handy excuse on which to blame all of my problems and pattern
misunderstandings if I fixed that), but I just don’t see how that’s
going to make a stitch
that looks like a knitted stitch. So I
unraveled my first attempt because it was only a few rows long, sang “Lorrrrrrrrrrrd,
I can’t chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange” under my breath because summer is coming
and that’s just how I get, and went ahead to just slip that stitch as if to
knit it, and then I purled it on the next row.
And ta da!
Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics and a few rows of concern aside,
everything about knitting this little dishcloth dress was a dream. I always feel a little silly when I’m making these,
but in a good way. This is fun! It’s a nice reminder that I have fun knitting
and that sometimes you can just make things to be pretty. And yes, I know these can be used as dishcloths
but DON’T YOU DARE. I almost never feel
this way about dishcloths, but this is a dishcloth dress. You don’t just take some princess frock and
use it to scrub some greasy pots and pans!
This is the dishcloth dress of royalty!
I mean, this is not a whisk.
It’s a scepter. I bid
you good day.
This post originally appeared on Everyday Life at Leisure."