The Christmas gifts part 2

Ok, here comes the last of the Christmas gifts I made in 2009. I have made a few of these kitchen towels for myself and I love them. I decided these would make fairly decent gifts for some of the members of my family-in-law. I made two white ones and one brown. Hope they will come to good use, either as kitchen towels or pot holders (as one recipient thought that that was what it was).
How to make one? Start out with 80 or 90 stitches, depending on how big you want it, find some cotton yarn (double strand is good, but I actually knitted these with 3 strands and liked the result), and on every right side, you knit two and two stitches together in the middle. The rest I guess you can figure out from the picture. This is great tv-knitting, very little thinking is required to make one of these. But, be warned, they are kind of addictive. You don't want to stop knitting until you are done. (Luckily, that doesn't take too long.)

I am not knitting so much these days. I am, believe it or not, working on my thesis. Knitting must be completely avoided for a little while, because I tend to get too consumed in my knitting projects. But I have a looooong list of delicious things I'm going to knit once I'm done with my thesis. That will be my reward. Only three months more. (But I have a few knitted goodies yet unblogged, so stay tuned.)