This summer our church sent a team to Africa, and part of the time spent there will be for women married to church leaders to come to a conference to get a break from busy life. At the conference, the women will be given some fancy lotion, other spa items, and a hand knitted dishcloth. The project started with a need for 40-50 dishcloths but quickly grew to around 80! With the help of a growing number of knitters the project was completed. I wanted so badly to take a picture of all the cloths I made, but we had to turn them in as we finished them so they could be counted. In the end, I estimate that I donated approximately 15-20 dishcloths.
Most of the yarn used was donated, and thus not very...nice. The one pictured was made in some leftover itchy Red Heart. I felt kind of bad having to knit up something not made with nice cotton dishcloth yarn but they I realized - Africa is one tough cookie! These cloths aren't going to be in a nice clean American kitchen. They're going to be outside by the cooking fire and next to a wash basin in the dirt. Red Heart is super durable, and this is great yarn for a project like this, if any reader out there plans to do this in the future.
I wish the team the best of luck in Africa! (One team member just happens to be my sister Nicole ^_^) Have a great time helping these tired women at a relaxing conference!
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