How to Crochet an Easy to Do Dish Soap Apron

Your dish soap can be as decorative as your dishes with this easy to do dish soap apron.

Crochet is a useful craft for decorating almost anything in the kitchen. From crocheted dishcloths to towel toppers and place mats, you can brighten your kitchen easily with a little cotton yarn and a crochet hook. Make a crocheted dish soap apron to hide your dish soap bottle behind a decorative crocheted cover. Use worsted weight cotton yarn and a size H crochet hook to make a cover that is quick, washable and customizable to your own color scheme.

Things You'll Need

• Cotton yarn
• Crochet hook
• Scissors
• Large eye blunt needle

Instructions

1. Begin with a starting chain of approximately 24 stitches. Join with a slip stitch, chain one, and single crochet in every chain around. Chain one, and then single crochet in the next 10 stitches only. Chain one and turn, and single crochet back across these ten stitches. Now you have the neck loop of your apron.

2. Increase the width of your apron slightly. For the next row, chain three, then make a double crochet in the first single crochet; this counts as two double crochets because the first chain-three counts as a double crochet stitch. Double crochet in every stitch across the row, putting two double crochets in the final stitch. This will help your dish soap apron fan out like a traditional apron.

3. Chain three and double crochet across every stitch for the next row; repeat this pattern for ten more rows, or until the desired length of your apron is reached. It should fall approximately one inch above the base of the dish soap bottle when you hang the loop over the neck of the bottle.

4. For the final row, chain one and single crochet across every stitch, but do not turn; make two more single crochets in the final stitch in the row, then work around to make single crochet stitches up the side of the work. Stop when you get to the position where the soap bottle naturally curves inward; on this row, make 35 chain stitches, then slip stitch back down the chain stitches and rejoin with the original piece. Continue to crochet around the entire perimeter of your stitches, skipping the neck loop and single crocheting around the body of the apron only. When you reach the same row on the opposite side, chain 35 again and slip stitch down those chain stitches to rejoin, then continue to single crochet down the side of the apron. Make two more single crochets in the original stitch from the last row, then join with a slip stitch and cut your yarn. Fasten off and weave in your ends using a large eye blunt needle.

5. Slip the top loop of the apron over the neck of your dish soap bottle. Use the chain/slip stitch ties you made to tie around the back of the bottle where it curves inward, like the waistband of the apron.

References

• Crochet Pattern Central: Miscellaneous Items for the Kitchen