Good Monday morning everyone. I hope you had a great weekend with some yarn on your hook. We are starting our second week of the Spring Cleaning Dishcloth CAL, and I hope you are all caught up.
Today’s dishcloth is a little involved – but well worth the time and effort. We will use the Grit Stitch, which is comprised of a combination of the single crochet and double crochet stitches. This makes for a scrubby texture – much like the name “grit” sounds.
With its unique construction, you will thoroughly enjoy working each step and seeing how it all comes together. I used 3 colors, but you can use as few as 2 or as many as you like. Make several of these cloths with different color schemes, and see how different they each look.
This is definitely “not your ordinary” Octagon Dishcloth!
MATERIALS & GUIDELINES
ANY WORSTED
WEIGHT COTTON
I USED CRAFTER’S SECRET
A: VINTAGE GREEN 54
B: MANGO 58
C: YELLOW 43
CROCHET HOOK SIZE I / 5.5 mm
TAPESTRY NEEDLE
STITCH MARKER
SIZE AFTER BLOCKING:
9” X 9”
ABBREVIATIONS:
Beg = beginning
Begdc = beginning double crochet
Ch/s = chain/s
Dc= double crochet
Hdc = half double crochet
Hk = hook
Lp/s = loop/s
Pat = pattern
Rep = repeat
RS = right side of fabric
Sc = single crochet
Sk = skip
Sl St = slip stitch
SM = stitch marker
St/s = stitch/es
WS = wrong side of fabric
Yo = yarn over
SPECIAL STITCHES:
Sc2tog – single crochet 2 stitches together: (Work a sc into next st leaving the last lp on hk) twice, yo and draw through all 3 lps on hk. Counts as 1 sc.
Sc3tog – single crochet 3 stitches together: (Work a sc into next st leaving the last lp on hk) 3 times, yo and draw through all 4 lps on hk. Counts as 1 sc.
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES:
Changing Colors: To change color in last st, complete last st until 2 lps left on hk, drop current color, pick up new color, yo and draw through both lps.
INSTRUCTIONS
SECTION ONE:
This section is worked in one piece, changing colors at the end of rows. It might help to place a SM on the RS for future reference.
Odd rows are RS – even rows are WS.
Row 1: With A ch 12, working in back bumps of chs, sc in 2nd ch from hk and in each ch to end, ch 1, turn. (11 sc)
Row 2: [(Sc, dc) in first st, sk next st] to last st, sc in last st, ch 1, turn.
Rows 3 – 8: Rep Row 2. Change to Color B in last st of Row 8.
Row 9: Sc in first and each st to end, ch 1, turn. (11 sc)
Rows 10 – 16: Rep Row 2, changing to Color A in last st.
Row 17: Rep Row 9.
Rows 18 – 24: Rep Row 2 and finish off.
Weave in ends.
SECTION TWO:
Row 1: With RS facing, rotate cloth as shown below and join A with sc where indicated in photo.
Work 10 more sc evenly across the vertical edge of Color B as shown below. (11 sc)
Rows 2 – 8: Rep Row 2 as in Section One. Finish off.
Rotate piece to other vertical side of Color B and rep Rows 1 – 8 as above. Finish off.
Now your piece will look like a plus sign.
SECTION THREE:
The next section consists of working inserts to create an octagon.
Row 1: With RS facing, rotate piece as shown below and join Color C with a sc where indicated. Work 6 more sc down the edge (total of 7 sc on first edge), place 1 sc in center where all 3 colors meet, and work 7 sc up the next edge, ch 1, turn.
Row 2: Sc2tog, sc in next 4 sts, sc3tog, sc in next 4 sts, sc2tog in last 2 sts, ch 1, turn. (11 sc)
Row 3: Sc2tog, sc in next 2 sc, sc3tog, sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog, ch 1, turn. (7 sc)
Row 4: Sc2tog, sc3tog, sc2tog, ch 1, turn. (3 sc)
To finish, sk the first sc2tog and the sc3tog, sl st into the 2ndsc2tog, finish off, weave ends.
This makes a straight edge to shape the octagon.
Repeat for all inserts.Your octagon is taking shape!
SECTION FOUR:
Border
Rnd. 1:With RS facing, join Color C with sc to the right-hand st of any Color A section, (hdc, sc) in same st – corner made, [sc in next 9 sts, (sc, hdc, sc) in last st on Color A – corner made, work 9 sc evenly across Color C section, (sc, hdc, sc) in next Color A st – corner made] around omitting last 3 corner sts, join with sl st to beg sc, finish off.
Rnd. 2:Join Color B with sl st in any corner hdc, ch 1 (does not count as a st), 3 hdc in same st, work 1 hdc in each sc and 3 hdc in each corner hdc around, join with sl st to beg hdc, finish off, weave in ends.
© 2018 Melinda Miller – All rights reserved
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