I’ve posted on this particular project before: kitchen washcloths and hot pads. However, I thought I’d write about it anyway as the official start to craft projects in Auckland. Lloyd will also have some projects in the near future, but his projects require a bit more startup time than my projects.

I also made three hot pads. That way, there are two to take things out of the oven with and one to put the hot pan on.
In the course of acquiring yarn for the washcloths and hot pads, I discovered that cotton is really hard to find in the Auckland area. It’s a summer knitting yarn so it was rarely stocked. The shops that had it only had very thin cotton yarn because that is what you would use to make summer garments. It appears to not be widely used for craft projects here. In the end, I had to order it online and it took about two weeks to arrive. In the future, I think I’ll just double knit and crochet with the thinner yarn. On the plus side, I did find a lot of yarn shops!