Dishcloths and Coffee Cozies

Last week I knit a few odds and ends...projects that took about 45 to 60 minutes each giving me an instance sense of accomplishment.  The first projects were some dishcloths for friends.  Suprisingly enough, I had never knit dishcloths and was repeatedly told how they were so simple to make and so fabulous to use.  Simple, absolutely!  We haven't used any ourselves yet.

I was sure I could get 2 dishcloths out of one ball of yarn.  I started knitting another green one and far past the place of no return I realized I would run out of yarn.  This made me extremely upset, but like I said, I was to a point where I was not turning back.  Fortunately the friend who I was making these for told me "the ones grandma made never matched, they were always made of her leftover scraps!"  Good to know.  However, in efforts to make sure this problem did not occur again, because the mismatching bothered me, I took two rows out of the next cloth so I wouldn't run out of yarn.

Last week I also looked at coffee cozies.  I made some owl ones in the past that were a bit time consuming.  While looking through sites for patterns I stumbled across an ebook holding 33 different cozy patterns.  It was purchased.  Many of the patterns are pretty self-explanatory but they are fun and easy to whip up.  Here are some of the things I made this weekend between car rides and visiting with family:

To spice up the coffee cozies I've decided I can add buttons and/or ribbon.  The first one I did is the purple one pictured which I stitched a flower stem onto a flower button!  Too cute :)  I also added a black and white checkered button to the pink one above after the photo was taken.

Another cozy not pictured was another owl one.  However, this cozy only had 3 owls instead of five like the one previously made.  In addition, rather than stitch beaks onto each owl I only did eyes.  Less owls = less work.  As I make more of these I will post again for viewing.

In between these fun little projects I'm also working on a lightweight scarf for myself and a double-knitted scarf for my sister.  I've also purchased quite a bit of yarn in the past week and a half to hopefully keep me busy for several months with fun creations!