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How to Make Kitchen Towel Crocheted Hangers

Kitchen-towel hangers are a loop of crocheted fabric attached the upper edge of the towel. The buttoned loop allows you to hang the towel in a convenient spot so it is handy when you need to dry or wipe your hands. The project begins by crocheting a row of stitches along a short edge of the towel. Additional rows are added, using the double-crochet-decrease stitch, forming a triangular tab at the top of the towel. A button is sewn on to attach the tab to a kitchen peg or cabinet handle. Mastery of only four basic stitches is needed for this project: the chain stitch, single crochet, double crochet and double-crochet-decrease stitch.

Things You'll Need

  • Kitchen towel
  • Hole punch
  • Scissors
  • Worsted-weight cotton yarn
  • 4.5 millimeter crochet hook
  • button, 1-inch diameter
  • Needle
  • Thread
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Instructions

    • 1

      Punch holes, using a hole punch, across the short edge of the towel. The holes should be about 1/4 inch from the edge of the towel and about 1/4 inch apart. Precision is not important.

    • 2

      Insert the crochet hook in the hole closest to the corner of the towel on the right, if you're right-handed and on the left, if you're left handed. Yarn over. Draw a loop through the towel. Yarn over. Pull the hook through the loop on the hook. Pull to tighten the knot.
      Chain one. Single crochet into the same hole, then single crochet in each hole, across the edge of the towel. Chain three and turn at the end of each row.

    • 3

      Do one double crochet stitch in the first stitch from the first row. Crochet across the second row with a double-crochet-decrease stitch in every two stitches from the previous row. In the last stitch, do a double crochet stitch. Repeat row two, with a double crochet stitch in the first and last stitches and double-crochet-decrease stitches in the stitches between. Each row will be progressively shorter, forming the triangular tab. Stop crocheting when the last row is about 2 inches wide.

    • 4

      Crochet the first row of the loop in the top of the tab by double crocheting in each stitch across the top. Chain three, then turn. Repeat the first row, until the loop is about 4 inches long. Fasten off the yarn, then weave in loose threads.

    • 5

      Sew a button to the front of the tab, just below where the loop begins. Close the loop and use a space between double crochet stitches in the loop as a buttonhole.