No Fooling!

Today just happens to be the anniversary of my blog. I sure can pick the dates, can't I? April Fool's Day. I started it six years ago on a whim and at the gentle prodding of my good pal, Kathy. She had a blog that I just loved and I remember her telling me how much fun it would be to start one and how I could post my patterns. I have to admit that I was more than a little skeptical. Would anyone want to read it? Would anyone like the patterns? Now, here I am six years later. My statcounter shows that since I've started the blog, I've had 1,796,114 visits. (that's not a typo, one million seven hundred thousand!!) Not only that, but I actually have some followers! 547 of you. I still have trouble wrapping my head around that especially since I don't feel that I'm very good at blogging. My posts are far and few between. I suspect that many of you are just here for the free patterns, since I hardly ever hear from anyone. Every time I post a new pattern, I'm always anxious to hear how you like it, but sadly (for me), I'm left wondering without much feedback. That is, of course, until I start seeing the projects popping up on Ravelry. So I know that some of you do like them and that makes me happy! As I've said, I just do them for fun and I'm happy to share.

So, speaking of sharing, I've decided that in honor of my anniversary, I'm going to post the patterns that were originally published in the 2011 Dishcloth Calendar. The rights were returned to me quite awhile ago and I've been debating what to do with them. I could offer them for sale (Gasp!) but I've decided to just post them. I've dusted them off and updated them a little and I've included a chart which the original publication didn't have.

First up is Belle, one of my favorites:

The pdf files are in the sidebar for all the patterns, or you can click here for the Belle bib and here for the Belle cloth.
Then there's Eleanor:

The pdf for the bib is here or click here for the cloth.

Finally, here's Pete:

The pdf for the bib is here and you can click here for the cloth.

I can't believe that I designed all of these four years ago! My friend, Denise, was such a huge help to me as she did most of the test knitting. Here's one of her pictures:

Don't you just love that purple cow?

I hope you enjoy the patterns and thank you for sticking with me! No fooling!