Saturday April 9, 2011 – Debbie is a wonderful women who frequents our shop. She does the most beautiful tatting and she is an avid crocheter. On one of her visits a few weeks ago she gave me this dishcloth for the Dishcloth-a-Day Challenge. We added the nylon netting scrubbie in the middle.
Thank you Debbie for all the things you do for us and for contributing to our challenge. Follow me onto dishcloth 100!
Passion Flower Dishcloth
Original Design By: Debbie Franklin
Copyright 2011 Maggie Weldon
Skill: Easy
Size: About 8” diameter
Materials: Worsted Weight Cotton Yarn: Purple – 2 oz, 96 yd (56 g, 86 m); White – 1 oz, 48 yd (28 g, 43 m) (Sugar ‘n Cream – Hot Purple, White); Yellow Nylon Netting – ¼ yd (cut into 1” strips and joined)
Crochet Hook: Size H-8 (5.00 mm)
JOINING WITH SC
When instructed to join with sc, begin with sl knot on hook, insert hook in st or sp indicated, yo and pull up a loop, yo and draw through both loops on hook.
SPECIAL STITCHES
Shell: (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in st or sp indicated.
Shell2: (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in st or sp indicated.
DISHCLOTH
Rnd 1: (Right Side) Starting at center, with Purple, ch 4, join with sl st to first ch to form ring; ch 1, 10 hdc in ring; join with sl st to first hdc. (10 hdc)
Rnd 2: Ch 1, 2 hdc in each hdc around; join. (20 hdc)
Rnd 3: Ch 1, hdc in first hdc [2 hdc in next hdc] around; join. (39 hdc)
Rnd 4: Ch 5 (counts as first dc and ch 2), 2 dc in same st as joining, [ch 1, skip next 2 hdc, Shell in next dc] around, ending with ch 1, skip next 2 hdc, dc in same st as joining; join with sl st to first dc. (13 Shells)
Rnd 5: Sl st to ch-2 sp, ch 5, 2 dc in same sp, [ch 1, Shell in next Shell] around, ending with ch 1, dc in first Shell; join with sl st to first dc. (13 Shells)
Rnds 6-7: Sl st to ch-2 sp, ch 5, 3 dc in same sp, [ch 1, Shell2 in next Shell] around, ending with ch 1, 2 dc in first Shell; join with sl st to first dc. (13 Shells)
At the end of Rnd 7, finish off Purple and weave in ends.
Rnd 8: With right side facing, join White with sl st to any Shell, ch 3 (counts as first dc now and throughout), 7 dc in same Shell, [sc in ch-1 sp, 8 dc in next Shell] around, ending sc in ch-1 sp; join with sl st to first dc. (13 8-dc groups)
Rnd 9: Ch 1, * sc in next 8 dc, ch 1, working down Rnds, [sc in next ch-1 sp, ch 1] 3 times, 2 sc in next ch-1 sp; working up Rnds in same ch-1 sps, [ch 1, sc in next ch-1 sp] 3 times, ch 1; rep from * around; join with sl st to first sc. Finish off and weave in ends.
Flower Center
Rnd 1: (Right Side) Starting at center, with Nylon Netting, ch 2, 6 sc in 2nd ch from hook. (6 sc) DO NOT JOIN. MARK BEG OF EACH ROUND.
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each sc around. (12 sc)
Rnd 3: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next sc] around. (18 sc)
Rnd 4: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 2 sc] around, sl st in next sc. (24 sc) Finish off and weave in ends.
- With right sides facing, sew Flower Center to center of Dishcloth.
All Rights Reserved ©2011 Maggie Weldon
Enjoy,
Maggie
Fairly easy to work up – and pretty! I didn’t have yellow net…. tried it with an onion bag and that did not work at all. So I pulled out some yellow plastic canvas yarn and the effect is pretty much the same. Anyway – I liked the concept of the scrubbie center!