How to Crochet Tops on a Single Sided Towel
A crocheted top for a towel can add decoration to your towel and give you something to hang the towel by in your kitchen. These tops can be elaborately crocheted with motifs, or they can be simply made up of single and double crochet stitches. The latter can be made in an hour or so. Crocheting towel tops is a good practice project, and you can give away the results as gifts. If you're better at crochet, you can change the kind of stitch you're using for a better challenge.
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Things You'll Need
- Single sided hand towel
- Measuring tape or ruler
- Fabric marker or tailor's chalk
- Yarn
- 1.5 mm crochet needle
- 6-7 mm crochet needle
- Scissors
- Needle and thread
- Button
Instructions
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Lay your hand towel face up. If the decoration on the front has an obvious top and bottom, orient it so that the bottom is nearest you. Use your measuring tape and fabric marker to mark every one-quarter inch along the very top of the towel. Make your marks just below the top hem, if there's a top hem.
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Make a slipknot and tighten it around your smaller crochet needle. Pull the needle through the mark nearest the side your dominant hand is on. Make a loose single crochet stitch and then do the same with the next mark. Continue crocheting across the top until you reach the other end.
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Replace the small crochet needle with the larger one. Chain one and then single crochet in each stitch you made. Chain one again, and single crochet across, decreasing by one. To decrease, push the crochet needle through, grab the strand and pull it through. You'll have two loops on the needle. Start the next stitch the same way, then pull the strand through all four loops, finishing both stitches but leaving only one loop. Finish single crocheting the row.
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Continue to make new rows, decreasing each row, until the row is about 2 inches wide.
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Start making new rows without decreasing on the row. You'll want to have about 3 to 4 inches in length of the thinnest row. When you reach the end of the last row, make a knot and cut the yarn with your scissors. Weave any ends into the body of the crochet work.
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Thread the needle. Lay your towel and the topper with the face up. Place the button in the center of the crochet work near the towel end on the first or second row you crocheted. Sew in place with the needle and thread. Make a knot in the back and cut the tail of the thread.
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Attach to a stove handle by slipping the handle up behind the handle, pulling over, and pulling the button through one of the stitches you made earlier.
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Tips & Warnings
If you don't feel comfortable poking the hole in the top of the towel, use the 6-7 mm needle to chain a row that's a few stitches longer than the top of the towel, then single crochet in every chain stitch but the first. Continue making the top as described above, and when you have finished, sew the base of it to the top of the towel.
You can double or triple crochet one or two rows, but if you do the whole project in double or triple crochet, you'll have a very long topper and the towel will look odd.
References
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