Hand Towel
April 7th, 2008
Today I’ve got just a quick post on something that I finished a couple of weeks ago. When I went on my birthday trip to buy fiber with my husband I saw some linen yarn at the store. I’ve been wanting to knit with linen yarn for the longest time, and my local yarn store doesn’t generally have 100% linen. When it came to knitting it, I decided to improvise a hand towel. I’m really happy with the results, despite the fact that it’s just slightly thinner than I’d intended.
Unfortunately in the picture you can’t see the stitch pattern very well, but it’s a simple stockinette/garter basketweave. Basically I knit the front tab at the top, increased a lot over 6 garter stitch rows, started the stitch pattern, decreased a lot over 6 garter stitch rows, and finished with a back tab. Sew together and add buttons and voila! What you can’t see here is that the towel actually folds and goes up the back to create a doubled loop piece. Since it was so thin I just knit until I had only a little yarn left before finishing it to add more fabric.
Pretty! Love the color too.
My mom used to make the top tab part for regular cloth hand towels and she would just crochet right into the top of the towel. Always thought that was neat.