Kitchen Dish Towels Knitting Pattern Download

Description

A wonderful hostess gift—or a sweet treat to make for yourself! This pattern creates two generously sized kitchen dish towels. The combination of garter and seed stitch with DK cotton yarn creates a soft, absorbent towel with a wonderful weight and feel.

Designer: Kathy Hammerton
Difficulty: Easy
Yarn Weight: 3
Finished Size: Each dish towel measures about 13″ (33 cm) wide and 22″ (56 cm) long.
Specific Yarn Used:Knit Picks CotLin (70% Tanguis cotton, 30% linen; 123 yd [112 m]/1¾ oz [50 g]): #24134 Swan (white; A), #24834 Whisker (gray; B), and #24137 Creme Brûlée (yellow; C), 2 skeins each. Yarn distributed by Crafts Americana.
Needles: Size U.S. 3 (3.25 mm): 24″ (60 cm) circular knitting needle. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
Notions: Yarn needle.
Gauge: 21 stitches and 34 rows = 4″ (10 cm) in seed stitch.
Notes:

• You will be working back and forth on the circular needle—the length of the circular needle accommodates the length of the dish towels.
• Place a removable marker on the right side of the work.
• Unless otherwise indicated, break the yarn after each color change and do not carry it up the side because of the row widths. When carrying yarn along the side edge for the Bistro Towel to work garter-stitch stripes, pick up the new color behind the old color each time.

Originally Published:  Quick + Easy Knits