King Charles Brocade Knitted Dishcloth

The first pattern I will tell you about is a dishcloth using the King Charles Brocade. The King Charles Brocade dishcloth includes a three stitches wide garter stitch border.

You Will Need:
one skein of cotton yarn of any colour
one set of needles appropriate to the size of the yarn (I like to use size 8 needles).

Instructions:

Step 1: Cast on 31 stitches for a 8x8 inch cloth or 43 stitches for a 10x10 inch cloth. If you don't know how to cast on follow my instructions on doing so in my article How To Start Knitting.

Step 2: Garter stitch four rows

Step 3 (Row 1): k3, k1,/ p1, k9, p1, k1, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches for 8x8 inch cloth or 24 stitches for 10x10 inch cloth, k3,

Step 4 (Row 2): k3, k1,/ p1, k1, p7, k1, p1, k1, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 5 (Row 3): k3, k1,/ p1, k1, p1, k5, p1, k1, p1, k1, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 6 (Row 4): k3, p1,/ p1, k1, p1, k1, p3, k1, p1, k1, p2, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 7 (Row 5): k3, k1,/ k2, p1, k1, p1, k1, p1, k1, p1, k3, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 8 (Row 6): K3, p1, /p3, k1, p1, k1, p1, k1, p4, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 9 (Row 7): k3, k1,/ k4, p1, k1, p1, k5, Repeat from / for the next 12 stitches, k3,

Step 10 (Row 8): Repeat Step 8

Step 11 (Row 9): Repeat Step 7

Step 12 (Row 10): Repeat Step 6

Step 13 (Row 11): Repeat Step 5

Step 14 (Row 12): Repeat Step 4

Step 15: Repeat Steps 3-14 four times for 8x8 inch cloth or 5 times for 10x10 inch cloth.

Step 16: Garter another 4 rows then loosely bind off.

A finished dishcloth should look like this.

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