How to Crochet a Washcloth
Washcloths are inexpensive items that are handy to have around the home. If you're the crafty type, you may want to make your own. Keep them for yourself or give them as gifts. It may be even less expensive to make your own washcloths instead of buying them. With the wide availability of yarn colors, you can crochet just about any color washcloth that you desire. These small items work up quickly and are suitable for beginners.
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Instructions
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Double Crochet Washcloth
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Create a slipknot and leave a tail of six inches or more to weave in later.
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Insert your crochet hook into the slipknot and create a chain. Hold the hook in your right hand and the yarn in your left. Bring the hook under the yarn from front to back.
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Grab the yarn with the hook and pull it through the slipknot. This is one chain stitch. Continue forming chain stitches until you have 32 altogether.
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Begin crocheting into these chain stitches. Yarn over your hook by bringing the hook under the yarn from front to back. Insert your crochet hook into the fourth chain stitch from your hook.
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Double crochet into this stitch. Yarn over again and pull through the first loop. You now have three loops on your hook.
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Yarn over again and pull through two loops. You now have two loops on your hook.
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Yarn over again and pull through two loops, leaving you with one loop on your hook. This is one double crochet.
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Double crochet into the rest of the chain stitches across the first row.
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Turn your work. Chain three stitches and double crochet into each double crochet across the row.
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Repeat Step 9 until your washcloth is the desired length.
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Cut your yarn. Pull the end of the yarn through your loop and tighten. Weave in ends.
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Tips & Warnings
Cotton yarn makes for inexpensive, absorbent washcloths.
A crochet hook in an average size of G-H (4 to 5 mm) works with most worsted weight yarn.
References
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