How to Crochet a Towel Top Holder

If you can crochet basic stitches, you can make a classic hanging towel topper. This type of towel topper has a button closure so you can hang your towels on the handle of your stove, refrigerator or kitchen drawers and cabinets. Make one for yourself or crochet a few as a housewarming or bridal shower gift.

Things You'll Need

• Dish towel
• Scissors
• Safety pins
• Cotton yarn
• Steel crochet hook size 1
• Crochet hook size US G
• Yarn needle
• Needle
• Thread
• Button

Instructions

1. Cut a dish towel in half at the center point, so you make it half as long but retain the width. Ideally, you will use a towel that has the same pattern on both sides. This mirrored pattern will mean that you can crochet two identical towels with toppers from one traditional dish towel. You can choose regular terry cloth towels or the butcher fabric style. Set aside one-half of the towel, which you will use later to make a second topper.

2. Fold over the cut edge of the dish towel twice in order to hide the fraying edge. Make each fold approximately 1/2 inch wide. Pin it in place using safety pins to hold the folded hem together.

3. Use your steel crochet hook to make a row of single crochet stitches evenly spaced across the top edge of the towel. Use your cotton yarn for this project, because it will be washable like the towel. Poke your steel crochet hook through the rolled layers of the towel, yarn over, and pull the yarn back through. Yarn over and pull through the loops on the hook to make your single crochet stitches. Continue stitching across the edge of the towel until you have approximately 40 single crochet stitches, or whatever works out evenly for your towel.

4. Switch to the US G hook and chain one. Single crochet across the row of stitches you have already made. From here on you will build the towel topper using double crochet stitches; chain two and double crochet across the next row.

5. Decrease your stitches on subsequent rows. To do this, double crochet two stitches together on the beginning and ending stitches of every row. Do this twice on each end in order to decrease four stitches on every row. Decrease for approximately nine rows, and you should have four stitches left on your rows. This will form the handle of your towel topper.

6. Double crochet across every row for approximately five rows, depending on the desired length of your towel topper's handle. When you complete the last row, finish off. Attach your yarn at the bottom edge of your towel topper and single crochet up the side, across the top and back down the other side. Finish off and weave in your ends using a large eye blunt yarn needle.

7. Sew a button onto the center front of your towel topper. Line it up with your handle to determine the placement. The button should easily slide between the center two double crochet stitches on your towel handle, so there is no need to crochet a separate button hole for this project.

References

• Crochet Pattern Central: Towel Toppers