- Difficulty: low
- Yarn: Anna and Clara’s 8/4 100% Cotton 50 g, color: olive green
- Hook: 2.0 mm
Crochet dishcloth Betty
Materials
- Yarn: Anna and Clara’s 8/4 100% Cotton 50 g, color: olive green.
- Hook: as suggested on your yarn label. I used a hook size 2.0.
Abbreviations (US terms)
- st: stitch
- ch: chain
- sc: single crochet
- sc-blo: single crochet back loop only
Notes
The size of my dishcloth is 16.5 x 15.0 cm. You will be working in rows. The photo instructions below show the main steps for making this dishcloth.
Written instructions
Start by chaining 44.
Row 1: sc in the 2nd ch from your hook, sc in every st until the end of the row.
Row 2: ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in the 1st st, sc in every st until the end of the row.
Row 3-7: ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc-blo in the 1st st, sc-blo in every st until the end of the row.
Row 8-10: ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in the 1st st, sc in every st until the end of the row.
Row 11-42: repeat rows 3-10.
Row 43-47: ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc-blo in the 1st st, sc-blo in every st until the end of the row.
Row 48: ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in the 1st st, sc in every st until the end of the row.
Fasten off.
Photo instructions
Row 1
1. Start by chaining 44. You will start working in the second chain from your hook.
2. So, make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook.
3. Continue making single crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.
Row 2
4. Chain one and turn your work around. Chain one does not count as a stitch.
5. Make a single crochet in the first stitch.
6. Continue making single crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.
Row 3
7. Chain one and turn your work around. Chain one does not count as a stitch. Next you will make a single crochet back loop only in the first stitch.
8. So, insert your hook grabbing only the back loop of the first stitch and yarn over.
9. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.
10. Yarn over.
11. Pull the yarn through both loops. You have just made a single crochet back loop only.
12. Make another single crochet back loop only in the next stitch.
13. Continue making single crochets back loop only in every stitch until the end of the row.
Row 4-7
14. Repeat row 3.
Row 8-10
15. Repeat row 2. Continue to follow the written pattern until the end.
Finished crochet dishcloth Betty
16. Done!
