There's a great blog called One Small Change that encourages people to make one environmentally friendly change per month. My change for August is to stop using my dishwasher. I'm one of those people that pretty much wash the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. I actually enjoy washing dishes, I just hate having to dry them. So I am going to use my dishwasher as a huge hidden drying rack! To make washing dishes more fun, I knit up some fun cotton dishcloths and a jute scouring pad.
The dishcloths were knit using Sugar'n Cream cotton yarn and this pattern. The scouring pad was knit with jute "rope" from the hardware section of Wal-Mart. I cast-on about 12 stitches onto size 7 needles and knit garter stitch (knit every row) until it was the length of a sponge.
Join me in making one small change each month to live more naturally!
Always,
Amanda
