I started making my fingertips towels when the covid hysteria took root in March of 2019; I still had a few friends visiting my home, and one or two were leery of touching anything anyone else had touched … so, I got out my knitting needles and whipped up a couple cotton fingertip towels for their use after hand washing in the spare bathroom: then, I made an extra set for the master bath – the cotton yarn is softer on the skin, and since I started wearing makeup again, that’s a nice feeling on the face 😊
That said, it also needs saying that cotton yarn does not hold up as well as acrylic yarn: it eventually gets rough as the cotton starts breaking down, and the dye color quickly fades after repeated washings; when that happens, it’s time to replace the cotton knit items with newer, softer items.
My fingertip towel pattern is very
simple.
This year, I decided to add a light-weight, dangly, crochet decorative border along each knit towel end: honestly, I’ve never been so ‘girly-girl’. It’s kinda freaking me out how far I’m leaning towards the feminine embers sparking to life, in my New Life/Solo Lobo life 😉
MOD FINGERTIP TOWEL
1 2-oz. skein Peaches & Crème Cotton Yarn per towel (color of choice); 1 spool Aunt Lydia’s 10-weight 100% Mercerized Cotton Thread for contrast trim; #10 knitting needles; #D Susan Bates crochet hook; Tapestry Needle
Terms used:
K =
Knit
P =
Purl
Ch =
chain
sts
= stitches
st
st = stockinette stitch: k 1 row; p 1 row
EO =
End off
Rpt
= Repeat
BASIC TOWEL PATTERN: With cotton yarn, CO on 50 sts.
Row 2: Work 1 row 1x1 ribbing.
Row 3: P
Row 4: K
Repeat rows 3 & 4 for a total of 58 rows from beginning of work.
Repeat row 2; then BO with a K row.
With tapestry needle, weave in loose ends.
POM-POM TRIM: With crochet hook, attach cotton thread at the first knit st of the knit fingertip towel; and *work the pom-pom trim* at EA end as shown in this blog post: https://craftinghappiness.com/crochet-pom-pom-border-for-blankets/
NOTE: Because my fingertip towels are not very large in size, *I spaced the pom-poms every other st across the towel top & bottom edges, instead of the 2-st-spacing of the blog instructions.
That’s it! Easy-peasy 😉
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while I'm clueless about knitting, I found your account interesting and would have liked to more about those fingertip towels. Did your friend like and use them?
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Yes - my friends did like the fingertip towels - and they have been used so much, it's time to replace them with new, softer ones ;-)
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What a great project!!!! I cannot knit or crochet. So amazing.
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I was on a crotchet kick during the pandemic and I was pregnant at the time. After my baby was born, I stopped unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteYou may pick it back up again :-)
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