Home Clean Home Dishcloth

It's like a childhood tradition - pictures of the family home, drawn simply, usually with the stick figure family out front. Those homey, happy little drawings are the inspiration for the Home Clean Home Dishcloth!

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The Home Clean Home Dishcloth is almost all double crochets, and perfect for personalizing - pick the colors that reflect your own house, or use the same colors shown here. No, I don't have a red house, but I do love the way it pops on this cloth! (It's also a fantastic stash buster!)

The key to making the Home Clean Home Dishcloth is the color changes - be sure to check the links below for my tutorial. You'll also need small "bobbins" of yarn - mini skeins or balls so you can work the different sections of each row without having to cover the unused colors with stitches or carrying them along the back.  To make these bobbins, you can use tools like those linked below, or wind the lengths into tiny center pull balls. Or just wrap them around a small square of cardboard!

Home Clean Home Dishcloth

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• US - G, 4.0mm hook - Furls Crochet
• 75 yds 100% cotton; Aran/yarn symbol “4” yarn
  The original yarn is discontinued. Recommended substitute: Lily Sugar'n Cream
  Color A: Snap Pea
  Color B: Hot Pepper
  Color C: Vanilla
  Color D: Citrus
  Color E: Tropic Breeze
• Gauge: 13 sts x 8 rows = 4" in dc
• Finished Size: 9" wide x 8.5" tall, not including loop
• Crochet Abbreviations 
• Helpful Videos: Changing Colors; Working into the Edge

NOTE: If preferred, substitute a Chainless Starting Double Crochet for any "ch 2, dc in the 1st st," and/or substitute a Standing Double Crochet for any "join with a sl st to the 1st st, ch 2, dc in the same st."

INSTRUCTIONS:

Row 1 (WS): With Color A, ch 29, skip the 2 chs closest to the hook, dc in each st across; break yarn and turn. (27 sts)

Row 2 (RS): With Color B, join with a sl st to the 1st st, ch 2, dc in the same st, dc in the next 2 sts, switch to Color C, dc in the next 9 sts, switch to Color B, dc in each remaining st to end; turn. (27 sts)

Row 3 and 4: Continuing with Color B, ch 2, dc in each Color B st, switch to Color C, dc in each Color C st, switch to Color B, dc in each Color B st; turn. (27 sts)

Row 5: Continuing with Color B, ch 2, dc in each Color B st, switch to Color C, dc in each Color C st, switch to Color B, dc in next 3 sts, switch to Color C, dc in next 9 sts, switch to Color B, dc in each remaining st to end; turn. (27 sts)

Rows 6 and 7: Continuing with Color B, ch 2, dc in each Color B st, *switch to Color C, dc in each Color C st, switch to Color B, dc in each Color B st; repeat from * to end; turn. (27 sts)

Row 8: Continuing with Color B, ch 2, dc in 1st 15 sts, switch to Color C, dc in each Color C st, switch to Color B, dc in each remaining st to end; break all Color C yarn, turn. (27 sts)

Row 9: Continuing with Color B, ch 2, dc in each st across; break yarn and turn. (27 sts)

Row 10: With Color D, join with a sl st to the 1st st, ch 2, dc in each st across; switch to Color E, turn. (27 sts)

Row 11: Continuing with Color E, ch 2, dc in the 1st 3 sts, switch to Color D, dc in next 21 sts, switch to Color E, dc in last 3 sts; turn. (27 sts)

Row 12: Continuing with Color E, ch 2, dc in the 1st 6 sts, switch to Color D, dc in next 15 sts, switch to Color E, dc in the last 6 sts; turn. (27 sts)

Row 13: Continuing with Color E, ch 2, dc in the 1st 9 sts, switch to Color D, dc in next 9 sts, switch to Color E, dc in the last 9 sts; turn. (27 sts)

Row 14: Continuing with Color E, ch 2, dc in the 1st 12 sts, switch to Color D, dc in next 3 sts, switch to Color E, dc in the last 12 sts; break all yarn leaving long tails of each color (remainder of bobbin or at least 24"), do not turn. (27 sts)

Border Rnds

Border Round 1 (RS): Using the same color as the stitch being crocheted into and switching as needed between tails/bobbins, sc evenly around cloth working (sc, ch 1, sc) in each corner; join and break all colors.

Border Round 2 (RS): With Color C, join with a sl st to any st, ch 1, sc in each st around, working (sc, ch 1, sc) in each corner ch-1 sp and a ch 15 loop in the top left corner; join and break. Weave in all ends.

The Fine Print

Written pattern copyright Tamara Kelly 2017, all rights reserved. Please do not reprint or repost this pattern, but please do link to this page to share this pattern with others. If you wish to make items for sale from this pattern or translate it to another language, please visit the About page for details. Thank you to Lion Brand Yarn for providing the yarn for this pattern!