Simple solid dishcloth crochet pattern
8 × 8 in · Beginner · 1 color
Size: Standard Change size
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- Size
- About 8 × 8 in (20 × 20 cm)
- Skill
- BeginnerBasic stitches worked into stitches, with a turning chain
Size 3 choices
Paper for the PDF
A firm, close fabric with almost no holes and a low, pebbled surface. Both sides look nearly alike.
Gauge
13 stitches and 15 rows to 4 in (10 cm) in single crochet.
How to measure it
To count your gauge in the middle of the test piece: 13 stitches side by side are about 4 in (10 cm) wide, and 15 rows are about 4 in (10 cm) tall.
The pattern also stops you to measure after row 12.
Work a test square first (23 rows)
This piece is small enough to be its own test piece: you may skip the test piece, begin, and measure the width at the first place to stop.
If you do make a swatch, it is a test piece to measure and pull out, not the start of the pattern.
Gauge is counted over 4 in (10 cm), so make the swatch bigger than that: about 6 in (15 cm) each way, and count in the middle of it.
- Swatch foundationCh 21.
- Swatch row 1 (RS)Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across(20 sc)
- Swatch rows 2 to 23Ch 1, turn; sc in each st across(20 sc)
For another width: how many chains to add
For another width, chain more or fewer: each chain adds one stitch to every row. Measure your own stitches to 4 in (10 cm) first.
Before you start
- The ch 1 at the start of a row does not count as a stitch.
- Row 1 is the right side.
- The number of rows is our estimate: yours may differ, and the length does not change the stitch count.
- Leave a tail of about 6 in (15 cm) when you begin, and weave it in at the end with the others.
Instructions
Size: Standard Change sizeUS termsUK terms
- The count at the end is what the row leaves.
- Tick a row when it is done. Your place is kept in this browser.
How to read these rows
In UK terms sc is double crochet.
- FoundationCh 27.
- Row 1RSSc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch acrossleaves (26 sc)
- Stop and measure when you have worked row 12.Width, across the middle of the rows and not along the chain edge: about 8 in (20 cm). If it is wider, start again with a smaller hook; if it is narrower, with a larger one. If only the chain edge is tight, make the chain with a larger hook.
- Rows 2 to 30Ch 1, turn; sc in each st acrossleaves (26 sc)Repeat until the piece measures about 8 in (20 cm): at our gauge that is row 30. Go by the tape measure, not the count.Next: row 2 of 30
- EndFasten off, leaving a 6 in (15 cm) tail.
Finishing
- Weave in the ends.
- This pattern has no border, and every size given here is without one.
In all: 30 rows; 780 stitches; 2 ends to weave in.
