Crochet Country Dish Towel

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Does your kitchen or bathroom need a touch of crochet? You can use this modern crochet dish towel pattern to make a lovely crochet towel. Pair it with the crochet country dishcloth for a perfect house warming gift.

Before we had kids, my husband and I spent a lot of time with close friends who had four young kids. We loved babysitting the kids, eating meals with the whole family, and just doing life together.

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Secretly we were watching them, all of them, closely. Doesn’t that sound diabolical? – it wasn’t – they are good parents with amazing kids. Knowing we wanted to start our own family soon, we wanted to learn as much as we could from them. (Fun fact: Their youngest was the newest baby my husband had ever held and holding her was the turning point for him being ready to have kids. She is exactly, to the day, one year older than our oldest.)

In all the time spent at their house, one memory continues to amuse me mainly because I just didn’t understand until I had my own kids.  They seemed to have a towel, or towels, designated just for spills.

Someone would spill and there would be a chorus of “get the towel.”  I couldn’t frame how spilling was so commonplace that it required a regular spill towel – or set of towels.

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Now, with 3 littles of my own, I TOTALLY get it.  I cannot keep enough towels in my kitchen. When they are all clean, I don’t have enough drawer space for them, but they are never all clean. I had no idea how often little people can manage to spill.  (I shouldn’t be surprised though as I have always been a bit of a mess – to put it mildly.)

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All of that to say, when you have kids, I don’t think there is an enough when it comes to kitchen towel inventory!

Yarn for a Crochet Kitchen Towel

Cotton yarn works the best when crocheting kitchen towels or hand towels for the bathroom.

It is absorbent, durable, and easy to wash especially when using Lily’s Sugar and Cream cotton yarn which is machine washable and dryable. The more the cotton towels are used, the more absorbent they get.

If you want a thinner towel, more like a crochet tea towel, using a lighter weight yarn would work well and still have the same lovely texture.

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Country Crochet Dish Towel

Skill Level: Beginner

Materials:

• US-Size J/10 Crochet Hook (Amazon carries my favorite crochet hooks!)
• Lily’s Sugar and Cream Yarn (100% Cotton 4 Medium weight,  2.5 oz / 71g, 120 yards / 109 meters)
  • 3 balls in Ecru
  • 1 ball in Overcast
• Large Eye Tapestry Needle

Abbreviations:

ch(s): chain(s)
sc(s): single crochet(s)
st(s): stitch(es)
sp: space
yo: yarn over

Finished Size:

12.5″ X 21.5″

Gauge: 

4″ x 4″ = 6 spider stitches by 14 rows

Notes:

The dish towel is worked in the spider stitch which is a sc, ch 1, sc in the same space. Before starting on this easy crochet dish towel check out How to Crochet the Spider Stitch tutorial for full instructions on the stitch.

Dish Towel Crochet Pattern Instructions

Ch 38 with main color (Ecru)

Row 1: (sc, ch 1, sc) in 2^nd ch from hook,* sk ch, (sc, ch 1, sc) in next ch, repeat from * to end of row. turn

Row 2: do not ch 1 to start the row, (sc, ch 1, sc) in each ch-1 sp to the end of the row, turn.

Repeat Row 2 for a total of 78 rows

Color Changes:

R1-4: Ecru
R5-6: Overcast
R7-8: Ecru
R9-10: Overcast
R11-12: Ecru
R13-14: Overcast
R15-64: Ecru
R65-66: Overcast
R67-68: Ecru
R69-70: Overcast
R71-72: Ecru
R73-74: Overcast
R75-78: Ecru

Fasten off and weave in ends.  Don’t forget to check out the matching crochet country dishcloth set.

Now that you know how to crochet a dish towel with a modern country flair, where will you put it? Will you use this crochet towel pattern to make a kitchen towel or a hand towel for the bathroom?

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