SHELL DISH/WASH CLOTH

Here, at last, is my shell dish/wash cloth pattern.

10 January 1996:
a suggestion from the author:
use the plain diagonal pattern and incorporate the motif into the body 
after approximately 25 stitches are on the needle.

Cast on 41 stitches.  I used Cotton Tails and a size 7 needle.
Row 1-5 KNIT
The first and last 5 stitches of every row are knit....a garter stitch
border. The last 5 rows are knit.
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o =3D knit on the right side and purl on the wrong side
x =3D purl on the right side and knit on the wrong side

Start at the lower right hand corner....on a right side row.
Pattern is 31 stitches across, and 29 rows....you can add a few
stitches when casting on and frame the shell in st.st...within the
garter border if you like.
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I tried to put this into words....but remembering k's and p's on right
and wrong sides nearly did me in.  Just remember that it is a st.st and
reverse st.st. pattern.  The shell will appear as you work it.
Hope this tranfers okay....and not as a lot of gobbly-de-gook.
Leslie Bagatelle ymtu31a@prodigy.com

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