OK, I needed a break from the butterfly wings so I whipped these up.
The pink washcloth is a smaller variation of a dishcloth pattern from Knitting Made Easy, a booklet put out by Best Recipes. For the purple I started another dishcloth pattern from that booklet but several rows in realized it wasn’t going to work out because I was making it smaller. Since I didn’t want to frog it and cast on again and inspired by Knits by Rachel (who has some cute designs both free and for sale) I chose a heart and just experimented and until it looked the way I wanted it to.
I’ve noticed that they tend to shrink lengthwise if not left to dry flat which obviously isn’t convenient so I think in future I will knit them “taller” so they shrink to squares. 
I learned a lot in the process of knitting this domino knit potholder and I thank my husband for his encouragement to make use of the opportunity to exercise perseverance after so many false starts because of silly errors that I was tempted to quit. By the end, when I had bound off the last stitch and about to take that final sigh of relief at seeing the end of those picots only to realize at that exact moment that I had so many that it looked all wrong and fixing it meant unraveling all that arduous work, I frogged it without tears or frustration and knit it again. It was so much easier the second time, I might add. In fact, I suppose I have to admit that I benefited from all those false starts for the same reason - all that practice has given me a new level of confidence in my knitting overall. No longer am I afraid of dropping a stitch. The thought of knitting into a completed piece no longer intimidates me. Color changes? Just tell me where. On top of that I’m getting much better at the knit cast-on, binding off and weaving in yarn tails both while knitting and afterwards.
This isn’t just a potholder. It is a victory in personal growth.
