1-Hour Kitchen Soap Mat - Free Pattern

I have been working on several longer-term projects recently, and I just needed a win... I needed a quick F.O. (finished object) to take the edge off.  I perused my yarn stash and found some KnitPicks Dishie in Honeydew that my parents had gotten me for Christmas last year.

I've had this idea in my head for a while that I want to knit myself a TON of dish cloths and retire all of my store bought ones to the rag bin, but I want to replace them in one fell swoop.  This time, had the urge to finish a project that I could use immediately, so knitting that many dish cloths was off the idea board.

I looked around my kitchen and saw two places I was using dish cloths other than in the sink.  I had one dish cloth folded in half next to my sink with dish soap, hand soap, and sink plug.  I don't like these things being on that little area of the actual sink, so off to the side they go.  I decided I could knit something to replace it at the exact size I needed.

I also had a folded dish cloth to the right of my oven where my salt shaker, pepper grinder, and nutritional yeast is (it's a vegan Parmesan-like thing).  My pepper grinder was leaving behind little pepper particles, so I had stuck a dish cloth there to catch them and keep my counter more tidy.  I decided to knit a second one exactly the same size for this space.

After measuring and approximating my gauge, I got to work.  I finished knitting both of them before we finished our movie the other night.  (We were watching Dances With Wolves, which was a great movie.)

This is a perfect beginning knitting project, or one to give you a quick FO when you just need to feel accomplished like I needed the other day.

To download the FREE pattern PDF on Ravelry, check out my designer's page here.

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