Pattern for circular ones:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/seamless-circula...
First project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/fifty
Third project page:
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/mitered-knit...
Yarn: Some years ago, I bought a strange (and frankly ugly) baby blanket at the second-hand store. It had been made of many separate squares very tightly sewn together, but those squares … Some were two strands of dishcloth cotton - a white strand and a blues/white strand - held together. Others had been a doubled strand of synthetic thick-n-thin in shades of brown - seen at: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/top-down-far...
Slowly, all those bits and pieces are being transformed. This potholder project will take care of most of the cotton threads.
Pattern: I actually only used the pattern for the number of cast on stitches. I’ve been doing mitred squares for over twenty years the way I learned them from the book Number knitting: The new all-way stretch method Hardcover (c)1952, and I saw no point in changing a tried and true way. To wit:always slip first stitch knitwise, work two consecutive k2tog at centerpoint every other row, purl last stitch on every row.
All I changed from that and from the pattern was to pop the last two stitches onto a crochet hook - the same size as I used for the crochet hook cast on, which is the same size as the needle used to knit, and work chain 10, slip stitch into base of that chain, slip stitch into each chain of the chain 10, and fasten off - to make a hanging loop.
I think the next one needs a slightly smaller needle, because the fabric seems a tad limp. That may be because the yarn isn’t new; it had been part of one of the most ugly baby blankets I’d ever seen. Squares of very thick-and-thin splotchy shades of brown synthetic yarn doubled and worked with a strand of either white or white-and-blue kitchen cotton, probably Bernat Handicrafter. I rescued it from Goodwill and enjoyed disassembling it during an overnight drive or two. The brown is slowly becoming a shawl: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/top-down-far...
October 20, 2019
Oops!! I wove in the ends (three small balls of yarn = six ends) while at Sunday Morning Knitting. What’s the Oops about? I neglected to get a photo, before leaving it (and twenty-four given to me by Ginette!) at the nurses’ station. I guess I’ll just have to knit another for the photo. Ginette is taking advantage of this to bust her cotton stash; she’ll be knitting more for the nursing staff.
October 23, 2019
Because Ginette gave me 24 dishcloths, I (probably with her assistance) only need to knit another couple dozen. Jamal reported that the first batch of 25 were taken very quickly by the nursing staff - some taking as many as three. I wonder how many more I can knit? Enough to eliminate my kitchen-cotton stash? I’ll settle for reducing it to a more manageable size.
Second iteration of same pattern begun as soon as the first was off the needles. Same circular: ~32” long, Bates or Boye fixed circular, with brilliant royal blue tips, with the built-in bend that I love so much. Comfortable to knit with, and at hand = continuing with them, instead of searching for a tad smaller needle.
Hopefully, I’ll get a photo, before giving it this time!
Second done and all ends woven in.
Third well begun. I’m only stopping, because I found myself forgetting to do the two kl2tog and had to go back to fix it. Means I’m too tired, need to go to sleep, not stay knitting through the night.
October 24, 2019
Third completed; fourth begun,
October 28, 2019
Finished fourth and fifth, and gave four to the nurse, Amalie, who was on duty caring for Jamal when he was moved to the ICU. She’s supposed to share them with his other care-givers; that’s up to her.
Sixth begun while we were waiting to see him.
I’ve decided I’ll stop making these either when my son returns home, or I run out of dishcloth cotton.
Yes, there are scads of other dishcloth patterns, but this one is - for me - as close to autopilot-knitting as can be. I only need to count for the cast on. A movable marker to indicate the decrease side, and a stitch marker in the centre of the stitches on the needle, and into autopilot mode I go. Solid or variegated yarn - it matters not. Either or both together look fine in a mitred square. Adding a loop means it can be hung, and no one will ever question if it’s a ‘true’ square or not. Diamonds are good too! 
November 1, 2019
Sixth finished; seventh begun.
December 20, 2019
I’ve long ago lost count of how many I’ve knit. I’m just going to continue until either I run out of yarn or totally run out of steam.
It’s a month since we buried Jamal. There were so many people involved in his care … I doubt I’ll ever manage to give one to each; I don’t have most of their names. I’ll just keep knitting them and continue bringing them in to the hospitals for whoever’s there. Two different ICUs, one ER, 18th floor of one hospital; two different wings of the 10th floor in the other/final hospital.
October 6, 2022
I haven’t made any in months. Angela took the ones I had accumulated to the hospital for distribution. Since I still have plenty of cotton, I need to resurrect the project bag and make more.
October 7, 2022
No, they’re not all the same size. No reason. Since not everyone has the same size hand or preference for washcloth size, I have no fear every one of them will find a new home.
October 8, 2022
Finished another. About six hours, not knitting obsessively, just while watching TV.
October 11, 2022
Last one for this project page is from the nice yellow swatch that had been made 32 years ago.
Subsequent cloths, because most balls of yarn are intact with their ball bands, are on a new (3rd) project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/mitered-knit...
December 6, 2022
Delivered to hospital:
26 square and 44 round cloths.
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