quilted sock dish clothes

I also decided to try patchwork sock dish clothes. The blue sock with the pineapple was mine, and the white socks belonged to Max. Men's socks are HUGE. After making my pretty patchwork front, I just cut one of Max's socks to size. They are that big.

As a side note, quilted dish clothes are a great way to practice quilting and binding technique.

This is a detail shot of the back. As you can kinda notice, I quilted around the pineapple and the word "juicy." While this helps accentuate the pattern on the front, the fuzzies of the white sock hide the pattern on the back.

For all of my sock dish clothes, I'm doing fuzzy side out. It seemed that the fuzzy (what was previously the inside) was whiter than the outside of the sock. Also I feel like the fuzzy side will do a better job cleaning.

Summary: This is a quick and easy project. The rags I've made so far are each about 10" square (although I think 12" square is a better size for dish clothes), and took an hour to an hour and a half from start to finish. On average, I used two men's socks and one woman's sock per rag. I used a 2 3/4" strip of a 44" wide cute cotton for the binding.

Disposal: Worn rags can be cut into strips for rag rugs, but I would suggest thinner strips because the rags are thick. You could also use them as batting for a quilted hot pad. Like almost all sock projects, these cannot be composted.