The Compleat And Actual Adventures of Marcella White Campbell

I have discovered Mason-Dixon Knitting, and I have drunk the housewares knitting Kool-Aid. oh yeah!

In a period of knitting bleh and the spleen that accompanies periods of excessive frogging, I found the women of Mason-Dixon Knitting, and their funny blog, and their hilarious books. The authors suggest knitting housewares because they are basically cute rectangles or squares and you don’t need to measure anything and you can actually use them instead of waiting for snow in NoCal (this does not happen).

So I began to knit.

And knit.

Etc.

Dishtowels are fast and easy and adorable and they are all mine, except when I give them away to people who don’t remember to photograph them for my Ravelry account. (Those people know who they are and should feel an appropriate shame.)

With the exception of the Moss Grid Hand Towel (knit painstakingly in pink Louet Euroflax) they take about a day and they are squee-level cute (the towel is merely beautiful).

I’m currently working on a new Hand Towel, in blue-green Euroflax for the Sk8r Pr1nc3ss’ bathroom. (It is a cramped, dark, humid, sad place, and hopefully this will improve the mood in there.) Using the Mason-Dixon Knitters’ original Hand Towel idea, I’m knitting a moss stitch border, but using chevron seed stitch in the main body.

Yes, I’m fancy like that.

My plan is to fill the house with colorful handknits, or at least die trying, or at least do it for a while and then discover something else exciting and feel occasional twinges of guilt.

I love dishcloths!

I love hats, too, but everyone in my house owns at least two pretty handmade hats that are too hot for Northern California! I love scarves, but not enough to remember to wear them!

I do not love socks.