Hand Knit Gifts

So my best buddy is moving to Atlanta Georgia and I'm going to be paying her a visit for my birthday (which is in 1 week). I've decided to make her house warming gifts as well as buy her a few things. These are my first completely hand knit items for her gift basket.  I made her a hand towel and a kitchen/body scrubber, depending on how she wants to use it. I think I want to make her another hand towel because to decorate a standard bathroom towel bar you usually need two folded towels. I also want to make her two face towels to match the hand towels and I plan to include some Lush body products. All in all I think she will like the basket I put together.

White Pepper Towel

Tribble

Knitting fail

So I woke up this morning and thought I would do something creative and make my own hand towels for the bathroom.  In my mind, knitted towels seemed like a wonderful idea. I mean, how often does one see hand knitted towels? So I thought I was being clever and unique and to keep that streak going I figured I would create my own pattern so the towels would be truly original. I searched the Internet high and low looking for the perfect stitch pattern to use. Then once I knew exactly what the I wanted the towels to look like I cast on and began knitting.
I did a few rows of garter stitch feeling very pleased with my creativity. I do the first row of my pattern thinking about just how artistic I am but once I get to row 3 I notice something odd. Although the front of the towel looks just as I imagined, the back looks a hot mess. In my creative frenzy, my brilliant mind completely forgot there was a back to the towel. So it is official I am a sock knitter and anything else, including knitting a double sided square, is just too complex for me. Not to worry I'm not giving up on the towel, I'm just going to use someone else pattern. That way I have someone else to blame if disaster strikes.