Blue gray basketweave variation

Wash cloth, cotton, basket weave stitch, size 1 needles, 7inches, bamboo

No, this is not cable stitch.  Looks like it, but it is a basket weave variation from a long line of experiments.  I like varying the number of rows and the numbers of knit and purl stitches in order to obtain these patterns.  The washcloth doesn't take very long and the worsted cotton shows the stitch definition beautifully.  

This is also a variation on the old garter stitch diagonal pattern wash cloth given away by aunt Shirley, or maybe your mother in law.  

I love to give these away.  I have a large back of keins of Rowan Hand Knit Cotton and when the mood hits I pull out a skein and think of a basketweave variation I have not yet tried.

Green cotton tabard

Tabard, cotton, rib stitch border, stockinette body, size 7 cable needle, 24 in

 

I joined a knitting group in 2018 and chose this project for my "social knitting". I often get very involved in the conversations of a knitting group and my knitting suffers unless I choose something very simple.  I wanted to get back to a nice smooth sockinette stitch for this tabard.

I didn't need a pattern because this is a rectangle with a hole in the middle.  Tabards do not have side seams or sleeves.  Usually they extend to the shoulder or a little beyond.  The sides can be buttoned or held together by any number of fasteners.  Often tabard style aprons are tied at the sides

The casting off and rebinding in the middle leaves a neck hole.  By picking up the neck hole stitches and knitting a ribbed edging a nice finish is given to the neck.

 

I knitted the rib stitch edging into the fabric at the bottom of the front and back by changing the stitch pattern, then I picked up stitches along the sides and knitted the 3 inch edge in rib stitch.

  This the the finished tabard.