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Basket Weave Cloth Pattern
Written by: Erin Lowmaster

**This pattern will make one 7×7 inch cloth **

Materials Needed: 

• Round Blue Knifty Knitter Loom (24 pegs)
• Your choice of worsted weight Cotton Yarn (2 strands held as one).  **The yarn used in this pattern is Sugar n’ Cream Cotton 2 ounce ball **
• Stitch Markers (optional but helpful to use)
• Yarn needle for bind off and crochet hook for cast on (optional, since I cast on using my fingers!)

To Begin: Crochet Cast on 24 pegs ( Blue Round Knifty Knitter 24 peg)

*Do not join all the way around but knit in flat panel.*

For those not familiar with SL (Slip Stitch) Here’s a helpful video that shows how it is done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZmZ7gnOevg

1. Knit
2. Purl
3. Knit
4. Purl

5. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
6. SL,P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
7. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
8. SL, P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
9. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL

10. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
11. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
12. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
13. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
14. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL

15. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
16. SL,P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
17. SL,K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
18. SL,P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
19. SL,K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL

20. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
21. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
22. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
23. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
24. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL

25. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
26. SL, P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
27. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
28. SL, P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
29. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL

30. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
31. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
32. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL
33. SL, K1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, K1, SL
34. SL, P1,P4, K4, P4, K4, P4, P1, SL

35. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
36. SL, P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
37. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL
38. SL, P1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, P1, SL
39. SL, K1, K4, P4, K4, P4, K4, K1, SL

40. Purl
41. Knit
42. Purl
43. Knit
44.  Flat Panel Bind off

Bind in your loose strands and enjoy! These make wonderful kitchen or bath cloths! Great for gifting and think about Mother’s Day coming up when knitting them!

Being inspired this week by a recent post over at the Makes and Takes blog, we got to work on our very own  decorated plastic Easter eggs! This a very kid friendly craft and my daughter Melody loved it! I enjoyed watching her creativity be sparked as she chose her own pipe cleaners, googly eyes of different shapes and sizes to decorate the eggs all in her own way. She was pretty pleased with her aliens, bug, and carrot eggs and I loved them too!

Why hide or decorate with ordinary eggs when you can create such fun custom ones? If you are looking for a fun and easy craft to do with your toddler, preschooler, or older child, I’d recommend this one!

Please share if you have any other craft ideas for Easter or the Spring Season that you think my family and I might want to create! 

I’ve been anticipating the Spring and Summer weather to finally hit here in the Northwest. While others are getting temperatures in the 70′s and 80′s, we are out of the blue receiving inch upon inch of snow.  But that’s okay, it’s kept me inside knitting away and it’s been good to start stocking up my Etsy store for the season.

Here’s a peak of one of many more drawstring market/beach bags to come! Note that this one is for sell right now for $25.00 w/ free shipping! If you are interested please feel free to contact me at erinlowmaster at gmail dot com and I’ll send a long an invoice your way!