I designed this kitchen towel to match a heart dishcloth I had designed a while ago – there is no pattern for the dishcloth, but it is pretty simple to make: I used a Valentine’s candy box insert as a guide and increased/decreased accordingly until my dishcloth was finished to my satisfaction. Easy-peasy.
This towel is a mishmash combination.
This towel set has 3 different colors of pink in the design: The dishcloth was made with Hot Pink … and a lighter pink that is no longer made. The towel was made with Hot Pink cotton yarn – with a contrast worsted yarn topper; because I had enough scrap yarn of that type to actually finish up.
This towel is a shortie because I ran out of main color cotton yarn ☹
But, it is long enough to suffice: I am a shortie too, which means, I have small hands 😉
And I added a white star button because everyone is a star on Valentines Day … and the star buttons only came in three colors: white matches the design better than a bright red, or blue, would have 😊
Despite the patched together design process, I think the towel turned out okay.
I’m not really a pattern writer … I aimlessly jot down chicken-scratch-notes as I work along for personal reference (which doesn’t mean anything to anyone else), so I hope this pattern in understandable to the rest of you.
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Cotton yarn in Hot Pink
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10-1/2 knitting needles
#J/10
crochet hook
CO 73 sts & work 4 rows Moss Stitch.
Work 4 rows stockinette st, keeping each end of towel in 6 sts moss stitch pattern.
Row 9: Work
6 sts in Moss St pattern for side trim; then work as follows: K 6, *P 1, K 11*; repeat * to * across row –
end K 6 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 10: 6
sts Moss St, P 5, *K 3,
P 9*; rpt
* to * across row –
end P 5 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 11: 6
sts Moss St, K 4, *P 5,
K 7*; rpt
* to * across row –
end K 4 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 12: 6
sts Moss St, P 3, *K 7,
P 5*; rpt
* to * across row –
end P 3 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 13: 6
sts Moss St, K 2, *P 9,
K 3*; rpt
* to * across row –
end K 2 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 14: 6
sts Moss St, P 3, *K 3,
P 1, K 3, P 5*; rpt
* to * across row –
end P 3 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 15: 6 sts Moss St, K 4, *P 1, K 3, P 1, K 7*; rpt * to * across row – end K 4 and 6 sts moss st.
Row 16: Work 1 row purl, keeping 6 sts EA END in Moss Stitch Pattern.
Continue now in stockinette st, keeping each end in moss st, for a total of 53 rows from beginning: end wrong side of work. If you want a longer towel, and have enough yarn … work 61 rows.
Decrease for towel topper as follows: P 2 – P 3 tog across row to last 2 sts: end P 2 sts.
Change from knitting needles to crochet hook and work in sc as follows: dec 1 st EA end until 8 sts remain.
Sc for 13 rows.
Sl st x5; ch 6 and sl st in same sp; sl at to end. Turn.
Dc x12 in chain loop; EO.
Add
decorative trim, of your choice, around button loop.
Sew
button in place and weave in loose ends.
