The With a Twist Dishcloth is a knitted mitered square dishcloth. Two stitches are decreased in the middle every other row to create a mitered square. The dishcloth is knitted using cotton yarn and the twisted stockinette pattern. The mitered square is created using the double vertical decrease technique. The double decrease technique creates a vertical stitch in the center of the mitered square. Dishcloths are budget friendly and versatile in their use for cleaning, wiping, and drying. They are also useful for learning new knitting stitch patterns and techniques. The With a Twist Dishcloth is finished using the crochet moss stitch in the round. This is followed by a round of slip stitch and a chain one border edge. A hanging loop of crochet chain is added to the dishcloth in the end.

Materials Needed to knit the With a Twist Dishcloth:

Yarn: Capri Eco Cotton™ by Loops and Threads® yarn in Gray Splash colorway. The yarn was purchased from Michaels and is now discontinued. Substitute for this yarn can be found on Yarn Sub
Gauge: 4.0 stitches / 7 rows per inch after blocking in the twisted stockinette stitch pattern
Knitting Needles: US #8 (5.0 mm) for knitting the dishcloth and US #9 (5.5 mm) for cast on.
Crochet hook: US size 7 (4.5 mm) for the border edge
Tapestry needle to weave in ends

Knitting Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate level – knit, purl, slip stitches, and familiarity with reading knitting patterns
Crochet Skill Level: Basic level with chain one and slip stitch 

Abbreviations:

• K: Knit
• P: Purl
• sm: slip marker
• pm: place marker
• K1tbl or Ktbl: Knit 1 stitch through the back loop (Tutorial Series: K1tbl and P1tbl)
• wyif S1: with yarn in front slip one stitch purlwise
• RS: right side
• s2kp: slip two stitches on the left knitting needle as if to knit 2 stitches together onto the right knitting needle, knit the next stitch on the left knitting needle, and then pass the two slipped stitches on the right knitting needle with the left knitting needle over the knitted stitch
• s2kp with a stitch marker: slip 2 stitches as if to knit 2 stitches together onto the right needle, remove stitch marker, K1, pass the 2 slipped stitches over the knitted one, place the removed stitch marker back on the right knitting needle
• WS: wrong side
• Sc or sc: single crochet (Tutorial Series: How to Single Crochet)
• […]: stitch pattern repeats

Knitting Skill Level: Advanced beginner – knit, purl, knit through back loop, slip 2 together
Crochet Skill Level: Basic level with chain one and slip stitch

The With a Twist Dishcloth Pattern (text and images for personal use only)

Knitting the Mitered Square:

Cast on 65 stitches (63 stitches plus 2 edge stitches) using a US #9 (5.5 mm) knitting needle using any longtail cast on method of choice.

With a US #8 (5.0 mm) knitting needle begin knitting as follows:

• Row 1 (RS): K1, pm, Ktbl the next 30 stitches, s2kp, pm, Ktbl the next 30 stitches, pm, wyif S1
• Row 2 (WS): K1, sm, P to marker, sm, P to marker, sm, wyif S1
• Row 3 (RS): K1, sm, Ktbl to 2 stitches before marker, s2kp with a stitch marker (slip 2 stitches as if to knit 2 stitches together onto the right needle, remove marker, K1, pass the 2 slipped stitches over the knitted one, place the removed stitch marker back on the right knitting needle), Ktbl to marker, sm, wyif S1
• Row 4 (WS): K1, sm, P to marker, sm, P to marker, sm, wyif S1

Repeat Rows 3 and 4 till five stitches left. 

Repeat Rows 3 and 4 one more time removing all the stitch makers (3 stitches remaining)

Last Row (RS): sk2p the remaining three stitches (1 stitch remaining)

Slip the last stitch off the knitting needle and onto a US #7 (4.5 mm) crochet hook

Border Edge for the With a Twist Dishcloth (worked in the round):

Round 1 (Crochet Moss Stitch):

1. With the US #7 (4.5 mm) crochet hook, chain two and then single crochet into the V of the  last remaining stitch, chain one (beginning of the round). Turn in counter clockwise direction (see image below)
2. [Sc in the slipped row edge stitch, chain 1, skip the next stitch], and repeat […] all along the left front side of the dishcloth till the last corner stitch
3. Sc in the corner stitch, chain 2, sc chain one all in the same corner stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
4. [Sc, chain 1 in the next stitch of the first cast on edge, skip the next stitch], repeat […] all along the first cast on edge till the last corner stitch
5. Repeat step 3 at the corner stitch
6. [Sc, chain 1 in the next stitch of the second cast on edge, skip the next stitch], repeat […] all along the second cast on edge till the last corner stitch
7. Repeat step 3 at the corner stitch
8. Repeat step 4 all along the right front side of the dishcloth till the first corner stitch at beginning of round 

Round 2 (Slip stitch, chain 1):

1. In the beginning of the round corner stitch chain 2 space, [slip stitch in the chain 2 space, chain 1], repeat […] once more . Turn in counter clockwise direction
2. [In the chain 1 space of the crochet moss stitch, slip one, chain one], repeat […] all along the left front side of the dishcloth
3. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch. Turn in counter clockwise direction
4. Repeat step 2 all along the first cast on edge of the dishcloth
5. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
6. Repeat step 2 all along the second cast on edge of the dishcloth
7. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
8. Repeat step 2 all along the right front side of the dishcloth till the last stitch in that row.
9. Chain 12 stitches (Tutorial Series: How to Crochet Chain) for the hanging loop 
10. Slip stitch the last chain stitch into the chain 2 space of the beginning of round corner stitch and pull yarn through

Weave in the ends, wash and block the With a Twist Dishcloth