The cotton yarn also made it a challenge. Being less stretchy and "compressible" (the problem magnified when trying to knit in rounds with a typical magic loop cast on, it is impossible to close the gap comparing to wool / acrylic yarn), adaptation is needed and reflected in my choice of stitches in the pattern.
The test pattern, My Square box, is inspired by my furball, Oscar, as he loved to sit on the finished project. And yes, only this one particular pattern, but not the others. He even wrapped his tail around to fit his whole body to the square confine of the dishcloth (cutie \o/), so my friend Cornwall suggested to call the dishcloth cat mat instead.
The pattern has a modern look to it and it is near to perfect two sided. I cant really make it so as there are ends to weave in and knots to tie making one side just a little bit different from the other.
Instead of alternating colours for the main body (which will definitely make it one sided), I opted for variegated yarn and solid colour border. Also this will minimized loose ends (I think it is important as each loose end / adding yarn represent a potential weak point in the fabric and with dishcloth being use daily under vigorous condition of pulling and what not, less loose ends the better) but still with enough colour variation to make thing pretty lol
I changed the pattern format a bit and included an End Note to put in all the little details about the pattern that I had accumulated through repeating it, so it is something like my knitting journal. Hope the pattern users will find it helpful
Thank you for participating in the test in advance :) and enjoy your knitting :D
