I love this “magic” hanging scrap towel. I mean, there’s nothing magic about how it hangs necessarily, it’s just a loop, but man is it magical to look at with all of those beautiful colors.
I used a scrap ball of cotton yarn for this project. You can chek out the blog: scrap ball of yarn if you’ve never made a scrap ball of yarn before.
Supplies Needed for the Magic Scrap Towel
Yarn: While you can use any color combination of cotton yarn for your scrap yarn towel, I created this pattern specifically to use my scrap cotton yarn and it turned out every bit as lovely as I hoped that it would. You can create your own scrap yarn ball to create the same look. By creating a scrap yarn ball, you don’t have any ends to work in and the color change is really organic and surprising.
Crochet Hook: I used a 4.5mm Clover Amor crochet hook but you can use any size hook to obtain the size and drape you like for your towel.
Magic Hanging Scrap Towel Pattern
This pattern can be adjusted to make your towel larger or smaller depending on what you prefer just by changing hook size or beginning even number chain. My towel is 15X20″ and that’s what I’m sharing below.
Hook Size: 4.5mm
Foundation Row: Chain 56 (or any even number)
Row 1: SC in 2nd ch from hook. *Ch1, SK next Stitch, SC in next st* Repeat from * to *end. CH1 and Turn
Row 2: SC in 1st CH1 space, CH1, SC + Ch1 in each Ch1 space to end. SC in top of turning chain. Ch1 and Turn
Repeat Row 2 until your towel is your desired length (for me that was 70 rows)
Row 71: For Magic Hanging Loop:
Ch1, turn. SC + Ch1 in first 10 CH1 spaces
Create Loop Chain 12
Finish Row: SC+Ch1 in remaining 10 Ch1 Spaces
Row 72: SC in top of turning chain, Ch 1, Turn
Row 73: SC+Ch1 in each Ch1 Space across.
Fasten off, weave in ends using Finishing Needles
These towels hang like magic over towel bars, and yes, stove handles which…do at your own risk because heat and cotton yarn are absolutely not friends.
