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Shop / Patterns / PDF Pattern Set Download

Hand Towels: Two Patterns

By Kay Gardiner

Priss up your powder room, or make a super classy housewarming or wedding shower gift with this pair of linen hand towels.

Please note: this pattern is provided in digital PDF format only.

$7.00

Specs & Details

Article Type
Hand Towel
Craft
Knitting
Size
13" x 20" (33 cm x 51 cm) and 14" x 24" (35 cm x 61 cm)
Yardages
270 yds and 540 yds
247 m and 494 m
Yarn Weight
Sport
Gauge
20 sts and 28 rows = 4" (10 cm)
Needle
US 5

These two little hand towels testify to the power of combining everlasting, ever-elegant linen yarn with classic stitch dictionary patterns. Knit up a stack of them in your favorite absorbent linen or cotton yarn. Gauge is not crucial here.

The Moss Grid Hand Towel uses a single skein of sport weight linen yarn to play with texture in a way that mimics the vintage woven hand towels we collect and admire. The Chevron Stripes Hand Towel alternates two colors of linen in undulating stripes that quickly turn into a color party, especially if more colors are added into the mix.

Tip for TV knitters: it may be counterintuitive, but we think the chevron stripes stitch pattern is easier to knit than the moss grid knit-purl texture pattern; it’s easier to count those stripes and keep your place in the pattern.

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