I have a magnetic hook on the side of my refrigerator that I like to hang a towel on. Having a ring on the towel makes it very handy. So I added a towel topper to a Dollar Store kitchen towel with a built in ring.
This is a modified version of my triangle towel topper pattern. For this towel topper, I folded the kitchen towel in half and crocheted single crochet (SC) stitches along the top as I have done on many of my other double layered towel toppers. But for this towel topper, I add a recycled milk jug ring for the hanger.
So here are the pattern mods:
I pulled out several balls of cotton and crocheted some Spring dishcloths. First up is My Star Dishcloth Pattern that I published all the way back in 2008.
The pattern is free and is an excellent pattern for using up bits of leftover cotton. Plus it makes a cute dishcloth!
Next is a pattern that is available through Ravelry by Julee Fort. The Blue Ribbon Round Ripple Dishcloth is also a free pattern.
I also have crocheted this using a flat center. The flat center is a great way to crochet the pattern if you want to use it as a hotpad and not have a raised center. Here are my crochet directions for the flat center:
I crocheted 32 pocket prayer crosses for a friend who is a leader with the Kairos outside prison ministry. She is helping with an upcoming event where these crosses will be given out to the women attending. Each day a little gift is given out to each person and I was happy to be able to make the pocket crosses.
After I crocheted all the prayer crosses, I did a light starch spray on them. I put them on wax paper and let them dry. You don’t need to do this step but my sport-weight yarn was so thin that I wanted to stiffen them up a bit.
Here is the free Bobble Prayer Pocket pattern. It’s a quick and fun crochet pattern that uses around 12 yards of yarn for each one.
Below is a final photo of the 32 prayer crosses
I crocheted this granny stitch blanket throw using 2 strands of yarn held together. I used black medium weight yarn throughout along with many miscellaneous skeins of yarn. I crocheted the 2 strands held together with an N (9mm) hook. I basically just used up all the bits of different yarns I had leftover in my stash. When I ran out of yarn, I just tied a new color to the end and continued around. Some people call this a magic ball blanket but mine was more of a magic skein blanket as I had larger amounts of yarn in each color.
I start my granny blankets by chaining 3 stitches or you can use a magic circle to start. Crochet 2 double crochet (DC) stitches into the third chain from the hook and chain 1. Crochet *3 DCs ( granny cluster) into the same chain, chain 1*, repeat between * 3 times. Slip stitch to the top of the chain 2 to join. At the end of round 1, there are 4 double crochet granny clusters and 4 chain 1 spaces (corners).
I like to use an alternate method to start a new corner on my grannies. I chain 2 and work 2 double crochet (DC) stitches in the corner of the new round. Then move on to the next space and crochet 3 DCs. Here is a photo of the starting corner.
I tried a new hat pattern that features crocheted cables. It’s a cute looking hat and I wanted to try it out. I also learned a new stitch called Extended Front Post Double Crochet or Ex-fpdc. It’s an easy stitch and makes for a longer front post crochet stitch in a project.
The free version of On the Go Beanie is found here at Cre8tion Crochet. There is also an ad-free pattern available for sale at Ravelry.
The only issues I had with the pattern were on round 4 directions and maybe I just didn’t understand the written instructions. But I believe you just want to do Clusters in between each ch-1 spaces and Ex-fpdc around the prior Ex-fpdc in rounds to get counts right.
Round 4 = 5” disk and round 5 = 6” disk with stitch counts right on with written pattern.
On Round 7, not sure why pattern says that the X Ex-fpdc stitches are separated by ch-1 as there aren’t any listed in directions.
I did one extra round of trim in the waistcoat stitch for length as my hat was short. Finished size of adult hat is 19″ cir by 7.75″ long.
I also wanted to crochet the pattern for a baby hat. Here is the same pattern but crocheted using 3-ply baby yarn and an G (4 mm) crochet hook. Below is a photo of my cabled baby hat.
I crocheted these baby bib and washcloth sets for this years’ Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoeboxes. I made several baby bibs, washcloths, teddy bears, and hats to fill our shoeboxes. It was really fun to crochet these items for the children’s shoeboxes for Christmas.
Here is another set in lilac colored cotton yarn. The diagonal baby bib crochet pattern is found here. The bibs are 6.5″ long by 9 inches wide. I crocheted long ties of 10″ long by chaining 47 on these bibs.
Below are more baby bear washcloths I crocheted for OCC. The free crochet pattern link is
Here are a few Fall kitchen items that I crocheted for a upcoming Fall and Halloween charity sale.
Here is another photo showing the full towel. This towel topper was crocheted using the pointed handle towel topper pattern.
Here is a Fall themed potholder with a crocheted towel added.
I stitched across the potholder in a blanket stitch using a big needle for the first row as shown below.
I crocheted these round ripple dishcloths using up some scraps of cotton I had. The flowered center uses 7.5 yards of cotton so it is a great way to use up those bits of cotton yarn. The two dishcloths were crocheted using one 2 ounce ball of Sugar n’ Cream ombres yarn in pink lilacs colorway.
The crochet pattern used is Julle’s blue ribbon round ripple dishcloth. I crocheted the dishcloths using the smaller option cloth from the pattern. Using the smaller option, my dishcloths are 9.5 inches wide using a G (4.25 mm) crochet hook.
Total yardage for the dishcloth including trim is
I crocheted this cotton star kitchen set as part of a bridal shower gift. The star dishcloth is one of my original free dishcloth patterns found here. I created this dishcloth pattern back in the summer of 2008. I can’t believe it was already 17 years ago!
I added a diagonal potholder to match the dishcloth. I used the double-thick diagonal hotpad free pattern that is a wonderful classic pattern found here. I like to chain 34 stitches to start to crochet a hotpad that is just over 6 inches wide.
Below is a closeup photo of the star dishcloth.
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