I like to find small useful projects to learn and teach new patterns and techniques rather than knit useless swatches, and I find that brioche is particularly suitable for dishcloths. I have often used these dishcloths as gifts - with limited success though, as my friends find them too pretty to use to wipe the kitchen counter…

This trio of dishcloths includes: i) a single colour brioche dishcloth, ii) a two-colour brioche dishcloth explaining the basics of this technique and iii) a two-colour dishcloth worked with single-pass brioche. The two latter sets of instructions produce identical dishcloths, the last one utilising a more complex but faster technique.