hey. you. yeah im talking to you 🫵 listen. before you send that ragebait ask or pick a fight with op over something they didn’t say, how about you cast on 49 sts, *k1 p1 until end of row, repeat * for 49 rows, cast off and weave in ends and make yourself a nice little washcloth
genuinely i think more people should pick up knitting and/or crochet as a meditative activity instead of picking fights with strangers on the internet. so because i believe so strongly in this, here’s an actual tutorial:
to begin, you will need:
cotton yarn (even a soft cotton baker’s twine will do) somewhere between 8ply and 12ply
knitting needles, somewhere between 4mm and 6mm (even chopsticks or wooden dowels will work for this, provided they have a pointed tip — or you are willing to give them one with a pencil sharpener — and are roughly the same diameter the whole way down the stick)
here’s the method:
to cast on, there are several techniques. i used the knitted cast on, but you could also use the long-tail cast on or any other flat cast on method. the internet has tutorials for all of these, and that’s how i learned. the most important thing is to cast on an odd number of stitches. i cast on 69 because funny sex number but that might actually be too many, i recommend somewhere from 39 to 59 stitches depending on your yarn and needle size. remember that your starting slip knot counts as a stitch too.
then you’re going to knit the first stitch and then purl the next stitch, and continue alternating those stitches one after the other until you reach the end of the row. your first and last stitches of each row should be knit stitches, because we’re knitting moss/seed stitch here (it gives the washcloth a nice texture). again, there are plenty of tutorials for this all over the internet, pick one you like and follow that. once you reach the end of the row, you turn the whole thing around and do the same thing in the other direction, and repeat for as many rows as you need until you’ve got something resembling a cloth.
once you’re happy with the size of your cloth, you’re going to bind off. how you do that is up to you, there’s no correct way to do this because i pulled this entire pattern out of my ass last week while figuring out how i was going to use a bunch of extra cotton yarn. personally i think im gonna do the sewn bind off i usually do for ribbed fabric, but it’s a bit fiddly if you aren’t used to it.
then you take a yarn needle (or a toothpick) and weave your ends through the fabric so they aren’t just hanging loose. this is everyone’s least favourite part, which makes it extra good for working out frustrations.
to conclude: make washcloths not war
