Bright dishcloths

Jacy will share an apartment with three other girls next year. I offered to make them some dishcloths and hotpads so Jacy chose bright colored yarn and I started knitting. This has been my portable knitting for the past week or so. I figure they'll need at least 6 dishcloths, and the same number of hotpads.

The hotpads are made from the yarn left over from the dishcloths, and are a simple pattern Meg told me about - she got it from Sarah, who learned it from her grandmother. (Crochet a chain of 37 stitches. Single chain crochet into the side of the chain - first down one side, then up the other. After that, just single chain into each stitch around and around and the pad just magically closes up onto itself - kind of like one of those old coin purses. It's a perfect project for someone who has never learned to crochet - like me!)