Crochet Kitchen Towel – Free Pattern

Spice up your kitchen with these farmhouse-inspired crochet kitchen towels! This free crochet kitchen towel pattern is easy and quick to make.

With just a few simple stitches and some cotton yarn, you’ll have a beautiful and functional kitchen towel in no time. Whether you’re making one for your own home or whipping up a few as gifts, this crochet project is sure to become a staple in your kitchen.

To make this crochet kitchen towel pattern, simply follow the instructions + guided video tutorial down below, or you can also purchase an ad-free, printable PDF pattern here.

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Free Crochet Striped Kitchen Towel Pattern

My latest free crochet pattern is a farmhouse-inspired crochet towel for the kitchen. It’s cute, quick to make, and features the most adorable stripes! So if you love a good home decor project, I think you’ll enjoy whipping up this crochet pattern.

It’s a beginner-level pattern that’s made with one basic stitch and uses worsted-weight cotton yarn. So it’s very doable for any skill level. If you know how to make a half double crochet, you can make this pattern.

If you need a refresher on this stitch, the guided video tutorial that comes with this crochet pattern goes over everything step-by-step. So you’re good to go!

So before we get started, I just quickly wanted to go over the yarn you’re going to need for this pattern, how to change colors seamlessly when making the stripes, as well as some color option choices (because there’s a lot!).

The Yarn You’re Going to Need for This Crochet Project

For this crochet pattern, you will need two different colors of worsted-weight cotton yarn. I used WeCrochet Dishie yarn, a 100% based cotton yarn. I absolutely love this cotton yarn and highly recommend it for projects like this.

It’s durable, washable, and all-around great yarn to use for projects that will be used every day. Furthermore, for this pattern, you’re going to need two colors of yarn. I used the colors Inlet and Swan, a really pretty soft white and light sea blue color.

You will need one color for the main portion of your crochet dishtowel and then you will need another color for the stripes. What’s great about the yarn that I used is that they have so many color options, you can really go wild and come up with some fun color choices.

Down below, you’ll see two more examples of this pattern that use the colors grey and white. I interchanged them, so one is made with grey as the main color, and the other is made with white as the main color.

Color Option Ideas

So you can really choose any color you would like!

Furthermore, since this pattern has stripes it means that you’re going to need to make a color change. Now there are a couple of different ways to do this, my personal favorite method is the seamless color change method.

How to Make a Seamless Color Change When Making Stripes

The seamless color change method is done by first working your last stitch uncompleted before starting your next color changing row.

For this pattern, you will be making half double crochets. So you would work your half double crochet as normal, but before you yarn over and pull through all three loops for your last step, you’re going to bring in your second color and use that yarn to finish off your half double crochet.

If it sounds a little bit confusing at first, I promise it’s not. It just takes a second to get a hang of it. Also, in the video tutorial I explain how to do this step-by-step and here’s also a tutorial on how to work a seamless color change.

So now that we have all the bases covered of this pattern, let’s start our crochet kitchen towel pattern!

Description:

This farmhouse-inspired crochet kitchen towel is an easy, beginner-friendly pattern that uses just one stitch and cotton yarn. With clean, simple stripes and a classic look, it’s sure to make a great addition to your kitchen.

• Purchase an ad-free, printable, PDF pattern HERE.
• Add this pattern to your Ravelry queue HERE.

Materials:

• 2 skeins of WeCrochet Dishie yarn in the color Inlet (Weight 4/100 grams, 190 yards), a total of 380 yards or another worsted weight cotton yarn.
• 1 skein of WeCrochet Dishie yarn in the color Swan (Weight 4/100 grams, 190 yards), a total of 190 yards or another worsted weight cotton yarn.
• 5.5 mm (I) Crochet Hook.
• Darning Needle.
• Scissors.

Gauge:

12 stitches x 12 rows = 4″ inch square in half double crochet stitch pattern.

Kitchen Towel Size:

13 1/2″ inches x 15″ inches

Abbreviations:

ch – chain: Yarn over, pull through loop on hook.

hdc – half double crochet: Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull through stitch. Yarn over one more time and pull through last three loops on hook.

Pattern Notes:

• Pattern written in U.S Terms.
• Pattern notes when to switch colors, A = Inlet (blue), and B = Swan (white).
• Ch 1 does not count as a stitch.
• Total stitches for row are indicated between ( ).
• Optional: Add a loop for easy hanging by following this step-by-step hanging loop tutorial here.

Crochet Kitchen Towel Pattern

With Dishie color Inlet, chain 43

Row 1: Make 1 hdc in 2nd ch from hook, and continue to make a hdc in each ch across the row (42).

Row 2: ch 1, yarn over hook and put hook between first 2 hdc st from the previous row and finish making a hdc * Work 1 hdc between the next 2 stitches from the previous row; repeat from * till your last stitch. Work a hdc in the last stitch (42).

Row 3-6: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 7: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 8: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 9: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 10: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 11: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 12-40: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 41: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 42: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 43: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 44: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color B (Swan)

Row 45: Repeat row 2.

Switch to color A (Inlet)

Row 46-Row 52: Repeat row 2.

You’re now finished with your crochet dish towel pattern. At this point, you can either finish off your work or add a hanging loop to your dish towel. If you would like to add a loop, then click here for the hanging loop tutorial.

If you want to finish off your work, simply cut your yarn (about an inch from your last finished stitch), wrap the yarn around your hook one more time, and pull through. Now you’ve created a knot and you’re ready to work in your tail-end.

I hope you enjoyed making this pattern and get lots of use out of it! Don’t forget to pin this post for future reference and to share with other crocheters.