Dishcloth Pattern!

Easy Pretty Dishcloth

This dishcloth is made on the long edge, from alternating 5-row bands of stockinette and reverse stockinette, with a garter stitch border. It took exactly one ball of Lily Sugar'n Cream - 95 yards. (I knit loosely; your mileage may vary.
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Cast on 54 stitches using long-tail method. (Explained in Knitty's '05 Summer Issue, here.)

Knit four rows. The long-tail cast on creates a row as it's made, so you'll have a total of five rows to start.

Begin Pattern:
Row 1 - K5, place marker, k across to last five stitches, place marker, K5.
Row 2 - k5, p across to last 5 stitches, k5.
Row 3 - k across
Row 4 - k5, p across to last 5 stitches, k5
Row 5 - k across


Row 6 - K across
Row 7 - k5, p across to last 5 stitches, k5
Row 8 - K across
Row 9 - K5, p across to last 5 stitches, K5
Row 10 - K across

Repeat rows 1-10 three more times (a total of forty rows of pattern, plus the five from the cast on and k-across at the beginning); then repeat rows 1-5 one time.

K four rows, then bind off. (Various methods also at Knitty, here.) If desired, crochet a hanging loop from the yarn left in the tail, slip stitch firmly back where you started the loop, tie off, and weave in ends.