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Happy Housewarming: Towels With Crochet Trim You (or a friend) can never have too many pretty towels. From "Uncommon Threads" episode DUCT-137

Cathy Pitters,of PDX Super Crafty, crochets a scalloped trim for a kitchen towel (and shows a variation with rickrack you can make if you don't know how to crochet).

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Towels With Crochet Trim

Materials:

steel crochet hook, US size 4
1 ball cotton crochet thread, size 10
solid-color kitchen towel
sewing machine with matching thread or needle and thread

Measure the edge of the towel where you plan to put the trim; you're going to crochet a chain that is slightly longer than this edge. The number of stitches in the chain should be divisible by 6 plus 2 stitches (the one in Cathy Pitters's example was 20", or 144 chains).

Row 2: Skip 2 ch, sc across and turn (figure A).
Row 3: Ch 1, sc across and turn.
Row 4 (this is the row where the scalloped edge is created): *Skip 2 st, 5 dc in the third st, skip 2 st, sl st in the third s, repeat from * to the end.
You should now have a long piece of scalloped trim (figure B), which you can either hand- or machine-sew onto the towel (figure C).

Figure A

Figure B

Figure C

Figure D

Tips: Try making a set with two contrasting colors.

If you don't crochet, try sewing rickrack trim onto kitchen towels for a gift that is just a cute as the ones trimmed with crochet (figure D).

GUESTS :

Cathy Pitters
Bossa Nova Baby
Website: www.bossanovababy.com