Homemade Crochet Dishcloth

I may have started aggressively pursuing making my own products to reduce the amount of chemicals in my family’s life and spend less time and money in the checkout lane, but I realized recently that I have another reason:

Even if I suddenly found out that Tide was totally chemical free and cost less than my homemade stuff…I still wouldn’t use it. I don’t like it anymore. Same with store-bought breads, goat cheese, shampoos, soaps, tortillas, deodorant, baby wipes, etc. I’d actually be willing to PAY MORE to have the ingredients to make my own stuff then to go back to store brands. Weird!!!

Well, I’m here to testify that I now feel the same way about homemade cotton dishcloths. They just work better. And after I used them a few times, I just couldn’t bring myself to go back. So, here’s an easy dishcloth pattern adapted from this easy afghan pattern.

DISHCLOTH:
Using H needle and worsted weight cotton–Ch 34.
Row 1 Sc and dc in 2nd ch from hook, *skip 1 ch, sc and dc in next ch; rep from * across (34 sts). Ch 1, turn.
Row 2 Sc and dc in first dc, *skip next sc, sc and dc in next dc; rep from * across, skip last sc. Rep row 2 for pat until desired length, do not fasten off. Ch 1, turn.

TRIM: Sc in each dc and dc in each sc along the edge to corner, hdc and sc in corner, then work along side edge *sc into each dc “bump” of scallop and dc into each “valley” or “ditch” of scallop*’ to next corner, working an extra 2 sc at last st, sc evenly across foundation to next corner, hdc and dc in corner, then work along side edge as for other side edge (from * to *) working an extra 2 sc at last st, join with slip slip st to beg sc. Fasten off.

Scrubby-scrubby,
Ivory