This year we have a very late spring, its stil snowing on top of the mountains and I’m doing all I can to get a summer-feeling. I’ve been making a summer set for my kitchen with a pair of potholders, a pink kitchen towel and a dishcloth.
Matching potholders
Do you remember my spring green potholders? I think my pink towel goes very well with the potholders. I even made a pink heart to pick up the color from the towel 🙂 In fact I liked the pink color so much I made two towels and gave one of them to my mother for mothers day.
Tulip pattern
I chose this pattern because it looks a bit like c2c (corner to corner), but I crocheted the towel in rows. Later I will blog about a kitchen cloth made from the c2c-technique, and I think it goes nicely with my towel. I’m not sure, but I think the pattern is called tulip pattern.
Yarn and hook
- Gjestal, Bomull Sport, Mercerisert, pink number 323. You can wash the towel in the machine on 60 °C
- Hook 4 mm
Pattern
If you wish to make a wider towel, make sure that the numbers of stitches are dividable with 4. You must also add 5 ekstra chain stitches.
Abbreviation
- ch = chain stitches
- dc = double crochet
- sc = single crochet
- sl st = slip stithes
Klick on the pictures for big version.
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- Chain 53
- Crochet 3 dc in the fifth st from your hook.
- Skip 3 st, 1 sc in next st
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- Ch 3
- Crochet 3 dc in same st as the sc
- Skip 3 st, 1 sc in next st
- Repeat from 1. to 3. till end of row.
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- Crochet 4 ch st and turn your work.
- Crochet 3 dc in the first of the four ch st.
- Crochet 1 sc round the first loop of ch st – see picture.
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- 3 ch st.
- 3 sc around the same ch stitches as you put the sc.
- 1 sc in next loop of ch st.
- Repeat from 1 – 3 til end of row. Turn like you did after first row.
Make the towel as long as your wish. You can also make a picot edging and a heart.
Edging on top
On top of the towel the edge is uneven because of the tulip pattern. I made chain stitches to make an even edge, this makes it easy to make the picot edging.
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- Crochet 4 ch st.
- 1 sc in the loop of ch st
- 4 ch st
- 1 sc in the loop of ch st – repeat form 1 – 2 until you reaches the seventh loop of ch st.
- In the seventh loop of ch st you make 1 sc and then 12 ch st and 1 sc in the same loop of ch st.
- Repeat from 1 – 2 til end of row.
Picot edging
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- Crochet 3 ch st
- 1 sl st in the first of the three ch st.
- Make 1 sc in the same st as the three dc that makes the tulip. Make 3 ch st.
- 1 sl st in the first of the three ch st.
- 1 sc in the same st as the three dc that makes the tulip.
- Repeat from 1 – 5 around the towel. In the loop you make 14 sc.
Heart
I think that adding a heart gives the towel a cute touch, follow the link and you’ll find an American video explaining how to make a heart. Good luck!
