TwilightTree

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Our apartment has a gremlin living in it. It must. I've never seen it yet, but I know it must be a close relative to the sock-eating beastie who haunted my childhood home. We have no troubles with socks here (that I've noticed), but most our dish cloths have disappeared.

A few days ago, I was cleaning the kitchen and realized that I'd just put our two known dish cloths in the washing machine. I looked at the pile of dishes, looked at the sink, and went to fetch my crochet hooks. I figured I could sit in front of the TV with my sister for a while, whip up a dish cloth, and get the kitchen clean before night fell. And it went exactly as I planned.

Exactly.

 Really.

Okay, so I wasn't paying attention and I lost a stitch in every row. But I noticed the triangle effect before I got more than ten rows in. And I decided to keep it, which makes me deliberate, right? Or maybe it just makes me lazy. In any case, I turned it to my advantage:

Isosceles triangle + button =

Gremlin-proof dish cloth! Let's see him wrestle this one off the rack!