All of my Nintendo Washcloth pattens are discontinued. If you added the patterns to your Ravelry library when they were available, the files should still be there for you to use. However, as they feature trademarked characters I do not own, I no longer distribute them to anyone, on or off Ravelry. Thank you for understanding!

After a long hiatus, the Nintendo-themed washcloths are back! Say hello to the bane of all pipe-travelling plumbers’ existence: the dreaded piranha plant!

This pattern is nothing but knit and purl stitches, but it gives a good-looking final product. It includes a chart for the stitches and alternative instructions for the chart-phobic. Both are in the PDF file available for download. It’s a more complex pattern than most textured washcloths, but still very quick and easy to knit.

All the Nintendo-themed washcloths are designed to be exactly the same size (25 x 25 cm/10 x 10 inches), so they can also be used as afghan squares and they should all line up nicely with one another. The charts included can be used as double-knitting templates as well by treating RS knit stitches as colour A and RS purl stitches as colour B, excluding the garter stitch edge. Note that for double-knitting you will need twice as much yarn (70-80 yards of each colour) because you are basically knitting two squares at once.