Pray without ceasing. Even while washing dishes.
When you are doing the washing up, do you pray for your family and friends?
This little double-sided cross dishcloth can help you to remember to keep praying even when doing your household chores. It’s an easy little pattern and you can make it quickly. While you are making the triple crochets for the cross, you will be making a cross on both sides of the little dishcloth. Currently, there is a trend to make and use big country farmhouse style dishcloths. However, my mother and grandmother have told me that they prefer smaller dishcloths for their smaller hands. They also like white dishcloths so that they can be bleached. So, this dishcloth was designed with my family in mind.
This could also be used as a prayer cloth if you wish. But I had dish washing in mind when i created it. My grandmother is a prayer warrior and something that I strive to be as well. This little dishcloth will remind me to prayer while I’m doing my daily chores.
Make up a bunch of them and give them out to your friends at church or at your next lady’s tea. This can make just an extra little item to put in a gift basket for a cherished friend.
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Gauge:
18 Stitches = every 4 inches
20 Rows = every 4 inches
Finished Size:
5.5 inches by 6.5 inches
Materials:
- Cotton yarn
- Size 4.00 mm crochet hook / G Check out this handy crochet hook conversion tool
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
Double-sided Cross Dishcloth
Stitches:
Sc = single Crochet; insert your hook into the loop, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through both loops.
Trc = Triple crochet; yarn over twice, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over pull through two loops, yarn over pull through two loops, yarn over and pull through the last two loops.
When making your triple crochet, let the stitch move to the back as you do the single crochet in the next stitch. This will cause a small bump in your dishcloth. Each side will have it’s own cross. Your Triple crochet stitches will go on top of the triple crochet stitch but will be on the other side of each row.
Chain 22
Row 1: sc in all stitches across (21)
Row 2: sc in all stitches across (21)
Row 3: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 4: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 5: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 6: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 7: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 8: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 9: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 10: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 11: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 12: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 13: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 14: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 15: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 16: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 17: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 18: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 19: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 20: sc in the first 4 stitches, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc in the last 4 stitches
Row 21: sc in the first 4 stitches, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc, trc, sc in the last 4 stitches
Row 22: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 23: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 24: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 25: sc in the first 10 stitches, trc, sc in the last 10 stitches (21)
Row 26: sc in all the stitches across (21)
Row 27: sc in all the stitches across (21)
Row 28: sc in all the stitches across (21)
Sc around the entire dishcloth, putting 2 single crochet in each corner.
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