Mason Dixon KAL

I have completed one Moss Grid Hand Towel. Whew!
It took over a month for various reasons:
1) I knitted other things in between.
2) I found the moss grid pattern very tedious.
3) I didn't really like the yarn I chose.
In spite of all that the end result is fairly good. My mom saw this when it was still on the needles and she loved it, so she gets it.
The details: I used Cotton Classic Mercernized Cotton. I could not remember the yardage of the linen when I was at the store so I guessed at two skeins. I didn't want it entirely plain so picked a contrasting color for the edges. It was a good thing too as two skeins of Cotton Classic only does ten repeats in the pattern instead of the prescribed twelve and there is none left for edges. My edge color is varigated blue, green, purple. I did not like the way the yarn showed every single flaw. My moss stitch was full of holes, particularly in making the squares. I used size 5 needles, the yarn calls for size 6. Thankfully washing did tighten up the stitches and it looks better after being washed. The nice thing about the yarn is that it does have nice sheen. I frogged back a few times when I made obvious mistakes; but there are more flaws in it than I care to recite. I think my mom won't notice most of them. Also Cotton Classic is 6 something a skein and having bought 3 skeins it cost a little more than one skein of Euroflax would have. My LYS doens't carry Euroflax but if I ever decided to make this pattern again I would order some. I felt really bogged down by this design and don't plan to make another. I have lots of the contrast color left and I will make a matching wash cloth or finger tip towel to go with it but I am going to use a different stitch pattern.