The Dishcloth Club
I joined a Monthly Dishcloth KAL a couple of months back. I've not been kept it up 100% but that is changing. 1st of the Month KAL: These KALs have a monthly theme and usually have a picture of something pertaining to the month/season. Usually a solid color is best for pictured dishcloths. 16th of the Month KAL: These KALs are usually a repeating pattern of some type. The moderator tries to incorporate a “new” stitch pattern. Maybe something that you haven’t tried yet. Variegated yarns are usually good to use for these KALs.
I have been frustrated at my knitting speed for a long time. I knit continental but I purl as a left-handed thrower. I have decided to truly put an effort into learning to knit completely continental and the dishcloth KAL is going to be my classroom. This way when my tension is wonky...who cares...it's a dishcloth for heavens sake! This also my be my chance to learn to knit in the dark!
My first attempt. It is quite a bit wonky and WAY tighter than gauge. Instead of 9 x 9 it's 7.5 x 7.5 I'm going to stick it out with size 7s for now so that I will see as things change.
This group holds 2 KALs (Knit-A-Long) per month. The moderator will send an email to the group with a few lines of a pattern a day for about 5-7 days. When you are finished have a dishcloth to use or give away.
For both I use cheap cotton yarn (Sugar N' Cream) from Michaels. Even my LYS, Charlotte Yarn, suggested that I go this route instead of buying a more high end cotton yarn.
If you are interested in the club there is a link on the Left Nav to join and there is also a Ravelry group.
Also in the news: I have just finished the first 5 weeks of a clinical trial. It's the Onward Study. I signed up to do it last summer after asking a gamillion questions of course...anything else would be un-Lynda-like.
It is chemo (Cladribine), and according to my lab work I am definitely NOT placebo. You have to have two doctors monitor you so that the one evaluating you never sees your labs. The drop in white blood cells are a dead give-away. I have only been a little wrung out...not the kind of violently sick you might expect from this type of drug.
If I had it to do over I would not have stuck a wedding in the middle of the first two courses of treatment but other than that it has gone pretty well. A really good side effect has been mosquitoes and sweat bees that usually can't get enough of me now land for about a half a second and decide to visit another diner.
Now I just sit back and reap the rewards for the next 43 weeks 
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Cool, wonky and all........wish I could make that wonky cloth!
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