So I’ve just recently started knitting and I feel like dishclothes would be both easy and practical for a beginner. The problem is that all the patterns I find require cotton yarn, 10 ply. I can’t find this kind of yarn around here for some reason - all the cotton yarn I find seems a lot thinner than 10 ply. The closest I can find is a linen/cotton blend.
Would it better to just make do with the thinner cotton yarn, or should I try another material?
Try double or triple-stranding the cotton yarn, see if that helps?
I use synthetics for dish cloths. And for nothing else. Cotton yarn is too expensive, and too mold/mildewy. And synthetics–especially really, really cheap yarn–has a higher scrub factor.
Maybe I could double-strand the cotton yarn for the drying dishclothes and use a polyester blend for washing?
Although if I want to double strand the yarn that means I have to find both ends, right?
What would happen if I just used the thinner cotton strand as is? Would I just end up with a smaller dishcloth?
To double-strand, you could also buy two skeins of the same type (even different colors) and pull off of both.
Yep, it’d make a smaller dishcloth to knit it single strand - knit it double-size and see if that helps? Or to be sure, knit a swatch and see what that does to your gauge.