The more of these monthly cloths I make in my year-long cloth series, the more I love them. This month we are making a Diagonal Stripes Cloth in three sizes. Between learning new stitches and techniques and creating something useful for the home, I very much enjoy adding to the collection!
Diagonal Stripes Cloth
This month’s cloth features the Diagonal Stripes stitch set. This is not a particularly hard stitch, but it does require your attention. I recommend starting with the smallest cloth, the one that I made in the video for the Diagonal Stripes tutorial.
Each new cloth in the series will be published on the second Friday of the month, and will feature Dishie cotton yarn. The cloths from month to month will stay the same size. This is particularly helpful if you decide to use an acrylic yarn and then sew them all together at the end of the year for a baby blanket, throw, or full size blanket.
As with the other months in this series, all cloths are the same size.
Cloth sizes:
5.5″ x 5.5″ – great for a face cloth or for showering
11″ x 11″ – average washcloth size
18″ x 12″ – dish drying mat, place mat, dusting cloth etc.
Materials:
Dishie Cotton (Blush colorway pictured)
-approx. 40 yards for small
-approx. 145 yards for medium
-approx. 266 yards for large
In order to make all three of these cloths, I used about two and a half skeins of the Dishie cotton yarn.
Crochet hook in size H/5mm
Gauge: 14 sts x 10 rows = 4″ square
Pattern Notes:
The chain at the beginning of each row does NOT count as a stitch.
Place the first stitch of each row (the Half Double Crochet) in the same stitch as turning chain.
Pattern written using US terms.
Find the prior cloths in this series:
April – Diagonal Stripes Cloth (this one!)
Small cloth:
Row 1: Ch-21, dc in 3rd ch from hook and in each to end. (19)
Row 2: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in top of last st. (20)
Row 3: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 2 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (20)
Row 4: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 2 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (20)
Row 5: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (20)
Row 6: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next st, bp dc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (20)
Row 7: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next st, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (20)
Rows 8 – 13: Repeat rows 2 – 7 one more time.
Border: Ch-1, turn, sc in each st to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc evenly up row ends to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc in each st to corner, 3sc in corner, sc evenly up row ends to corner, 2sc in same as starting st. Fasten off using Invisible Join and weave in all ends.
Medium cloth:
Row 1: Ch-39, dc in 3rd ch from hook and in each to end. (37)
Row 2: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in top of last st. (38)
Row 3: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 2 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (38)
Row 4: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 2 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (38)
Row 5: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (38)
Row 6: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next st, bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (38)
Row 7: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next st, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (38)
Rows 8 – 25: Repeat rows 2 – 7 three more times.
Row 26: Repeat row 2
Border: Ch-1, do NOT turn, sc in each st to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc evenly across to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc evenly to corner, 3sc in corner, sc evenly across to corner, 2sc in same as starting st. Fasten off using Invisible Join and weave in all ends.
Large cloth:
Row 1: Ch-63, dc in 3rd ch from hook and in each to end. (61)
Row 2: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in top of last st. (62)
Row 3: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next 2 sts, bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (62)
Row 4: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 2 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (62)
Row 5: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 3 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (62)
Row 6: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * fpdc around next st, bpdc around next 3 sts, fpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (62)
Row 7: Ch-1, turn, hdc in first st. * bpdc around next st, fpdc around next 3 sts, bpdc around next 2 sts * repeat between * * to end. Hdc in last st. (62)
Rows 8 – 25: Repeat rows 2 – 7 three more times.
Row 26: Repeat row 2
Row 27: Repeat row 3
Row 28: Repeat row 4
Row 29: Repeat row 5
Border: Ch-1, turn, sc in each st to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc evenly up row ends to corner, 3sc in corner st. Sc in each st to corner, 3sc in corner, sc evenly up row ends to corner, 2sc in same as starting st. Fasten off using Invisible Join and weave in all ends.
I hope you enjoy these cloths as much as I do. Come back on the second Friday of each month of 2020 for a new stitch tutorial and a new cloth pattern!
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