project #4 - wishy washy dishcloth

I didn't have a thick enough cotton in my stash for this project, so I decided to combine a couple of finer cottons together... by plying them on my spinning wheel



first I chose the cottons I wanted



then gave them a little twist, to see how they would look when plyed



tied all three strands to the leader yarn on my bobbin



then began to ply them together, by pedalling the wheel in an anticlockwise direction, and allowing the cottons to twist across one another



when the bobbin was full, I wound the yarn into a hank and washed it, to set the twist



pattern used -

• Wishy Washy Dishcloth by Lisa Gentry
• found in Hooked For 30 Days e-book

yarn used -

• recycled cotton, plyed as above
  

hook used -

• 5.0mm hook
  

thoughts -

• nice design, but I prefer a more solid fabric for my dishcloths
• maybe it's my imagination, but I see little butterflies in the pattern... do you???
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• see the head at the top... the puff stitch forms the body, and the two pairs of wings?