How to Crochet Edging on Kitchen Towels

Use crochet to embellish the edging on any dish towel.

You can use crochet to spice up a variety of kitchen accessories, from making your own dishcloths to embellishing borders on dish towels and tablecloths. Use a sewn blanket stitch as your base and you can crochet any type of border on virtually any fabric. Use cotton crochet thread or yarn in order to make your towel edging as washable as the towel itself.

Things You'll Need

• Embroidery needle
• Crochet thread or yarn
• Crochet hook
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Use an embroidery needle and your yarn or crochet thread to sew a blanket stitch edging around your towel. To do this, insert the needle from the back to the front, at the right side of your work. Push the needle down from the front to the back in a position that is one stitch length (approximately 1/4 inch or so) to the left of your original position. As you poke your needle through the fabric, position the working thread behind the needle and pull the needle straight through. Now you should have a vertical stitch in your fabric with the working thread laying flat across the edge. Continue this pattern all the way across the edge of the towel.

2. Use the blanket stitch edging as your foundation chain stitch when you work your crocheted border. To begin the border, attach your yarn or thread with a slip stitch and your crochet hook at any corner. Make a single crochet in that blanket stitch and each one around; if you are going around the corners of your towel, make three chain stitches between the two blanket stitches on the ends of each edge. Join at the end with a slip stitch to your original stitch.

3. Chain three will count as your first double crochet stitch. Make one double crochet stitch in every single crochet stitch around your border. For the corners, work three double crochet stitches in the chain-three spaces. Finish off by joining with a slip stitch, cut your working yarn and weave in all of your loose ends with your embroidery needle.

Tips & Warnings

• This pattern describes a basic edging; you can use any decorative edging pattern you like, employing the same method of starting with a blanket stitch edging on the towel.

References

• Threads magazine: How to Do a Blanket Stitch
• Crochet Pattern Central: Edgings