This classic dish towel hanger buttons over a drawer handle and it will always be just where you need it. Note: Image is of the knit kitchen towel top.
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Additional Materials 1 cotton kitchen towel One skein embroidery floss in matching color Embroidery needle One 1" [25 mm] button
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Tea Towel Topper
Lion Brand® Lion® Cotton
GAUGE:
Gauge is not important in this project and will vary, particularly in the first rows, depending on the width of the towel.
BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR GAUGE. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be sufficient. If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make a 4 in. [10 cm] square, try using a smaller size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
STITCH EXPLANATION:
dc2tog(dc decrease) Yo, insert hook into st and draw up a loop, yo and draw through 2 loops. Yo, insert hook in next st and draw up a loop. Yo, draw through 2 loops, yo, draw through all loops on hook.
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Embroidered Chain Stitch
Thread embroidery needle with embroidery floss and make a small knot at the end. With the right side of the towel facing up, bring the needle up from underneath the towel to the top; make a small loop and hold it in place against fabric with thumb. Bring needle back down to underside, in same space where it came up. *Bring needle up inside loop just made, toward the top, and make a new loop which will lay outside the stitch made, by bringing needle back down in space where it came up. Repeat from * for required number of chains. End by bringing needle up inside loop and then bringing it down outside the loop to anchor final stitch.
TOWEL
Unfold towel and lay flat – do not press open. Measure and cut a length of embroidery floss 3 times the width of the towel. Thread embroidery needle with 3 strands of embroidery floss (most embroidery floss has 6 strands, so you will need to split off what you need) and, working along center width fold line, make 64 Embroidered Chain Stitches, evenly spaced. Fasten off embroidery floss and secure ends.
Row 1
With right side facing, join yarn in first Embroidered Chain st, ch 1, sc in each Embroidered Chain st across; turn – 64 sc.
Row 2
Ch 3, dc in each sc across; turn.
Row 3
Ch 2 (does not count as a st), dc in next dc, *dc2tog in next 2 sts; repeat from * across – 32 dc.
Row 4
Ch 2 (does not count as a st), dc in next dc, *dc2tog in next 2 sts; repeat from * across – 16 dc.
Row 5
Ch 2 (does not count as a st), dc in next dc, *dc2tog in next 2 sts; repeat from * across – 8 dc.
Row 6
Ch 2 (does not count as a st), dc in next dc, *dc2tog in next 2 sts; repeat from * across – 4 dc.
Rows 7-11
Ch 3 (counts as first dc), dc in each dc across; turn.
Row 12
Ch 2 (does not count as a st), dc in next dc, dc2tog in next 2 sts – 2 sts. Fasten off.
Sew button to center of Row 4. The buttonhole is the space between the 2nd and 3rd dc in Row 10.
ABBREVIATIONS / REFERENCES Click for explanation and illustration
Tea Towel Topper Reviewed by Josephine Buckle on 2009-11-25
I love this pattern! The whole point of this pattern is so that you don't have to punch holes in the towel! This is alot easier and because of that I use Hand towels instead of Tea towels which are thicker, bigger and last longer. I have made many of these for gifts and sold quite a few too. I just received a phone call from my sister-in-law requesting I make her 3 more.
Embroidered Chain Stitch
Unfold towel and lay flat – do not press open. Measure and cut a length of embroidery floss 3 times the width of the towel. Thread embroidery needle with 3 strands of embroidery floss (most embroidery floss has 6 strands, so you will need to split off what you need) and, working along center width fold line, make 64 Embroidered Chain Stitches, evenly spaced. Fasten off embroidery floss and secure ends.
