If you’ve been making dishrags/dishcloths for any length of time, you will have noticed two problems:

• The patterns are lovely, but require nearly 2 oz. of cotton to complete, so when you start washing dishes it’s like slinging around a wet beach towel.
• The patterns are lovely, but don’t use a whole ball of yarn, so there are leftovers you have to collect and reuse later.

After making hundreds of dishrags, I think I’ve developed the perfect basic pattern. It uses just one ounce of cotton, 44-46 yds. of utility cotton, any brand. The size works well for actual dishwashing and you can adapt it for different patterns.
Rarely is there more than a few yards of leftover yarn.

The Basketweave Pattern on 33 sts x 48 rows is just the start.
Try monograms, hearts, teacups, textures, cables---anything that will fit on those 1584 sts.