Christmas knits

I wanted to post about this earlier but did not want to give away the surprise. For Christmas this year I knit soap sacks for some people. I bought glycerin soap from the body shop on the magnificent mile in Chicago to put in the soap sacks. For other people I made a set of 2 dishcloths using basket weave pattern. I will attach the link to the soap sack pattern and some pictures.
The dish cloth pattern I got from my friend Alyce.



Basket weave dishcloth pattern
size  9 or 10 straight or circular needles
cotton yarn such as peaches n cream

cast on 32
row 1      k4, p4, k4, p4, k4, p4, k4, p4
row 2      p4, k4, p4, k4, p4, k4,p4,k4
row 3      k4, p4, k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4
row 4      p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4

now switch

row  5     p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4
row  6    k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4
row  7    p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4
row  8   k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4,k4,p4

Repeat pattern 5 times bind of
to some of he cloths I added a stripe

http://baxterknits.blogspot.com/2006/08/soap-sack-sachet-sashay-updated-with.html

Great American Afghan progress

Well, The picture of my afghan square on my last post has been ripped out I still did not have the pattern mastered. but now, We finally got all of the kinks worked out. The problems were ours not the pattern. I am about 3/4 of the way done and the afghan is knitting up quickly. I will post pictures soon!