Warm welcome

Treat your house guests with Bubbles, our personalised facecloths by Veronica Shaw

With their individual monograms and pretty scallop borders, our three Bubbles washcloths by Veronica Shaw will delight any guests you have to stay at your home. Choose which size you'd like to make, or make all three, and lay them out in the bathroom for your special visitors. Each one is knitted in a bright cotton yarn and finished off with a crocheted border. We've given an example chart for the monogram, simply plot out your required letter on the blank chart provided.

Yarn: Rico Essentials Cotton DK, (A) shade 41 Mint (for small and large towels), one 50g ball, (B) shade 68 Azalea (for small and medium towels), one 50g ball, (C) shade 63 Banana (for medium and large towels), two 50g balls
NOTE: towels weigh the following amounts – (S): 24g, (M): 39g, (L): 55g
Needles: 4mm straight; 3.5mm double-pointed, two
Crochet hook: 3mm
Buttons: mother of pearl, 2.5cm, three; 1cm, three
Tapestry needle
Chart available to download by clicking here

BUBBLES PATTERN

NOTE: the stitch patt used is 14 sts + three sts. To make a larger or smaller towel, simply work to a multiple of this. Before beginning wind yarn around 4mm needle once for each stitch you are casting on and then multiply this by five. This will give sufficient yarn to complete double crochet when finishing off scallop edging. Wind this excess yarn into a bobbin and tie up to base of work until required Using 4mm needles and yarn A (B, C) cast on 45 (59, 73) sts

K two rows Work scallop patt as folls:
Row 1: k2, * yfwd, k5, k3tog, k5, yfwd, k1, rep from * to last st, k1
Row 2: k1, p to last st, k1
Rows 3-4: k
Rep these four rows three more times
Cont in garter st for a further 34 (50, 66) rows Place st st square for monogram
Row 1: k
Row 2: k18 (25, 32), p9, k18 (25, 32)
Rep last two rows four more times
Cont in garter st for a further six rows
Cast off, keeping tension even. Do not cut yarn

TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES

Using 3mm crochet hook, yarn saved at beg and end of work and with WS facing, work dc into each ch st made when casting on and casting off. Weave in ends at back of work

MONOGRAM

Using yarn B (C, A) and your 9x9 monogram sketch work chosen letter in st st square using Swiss darning

I-CORD TIE

Using 3.5mm dpns and yarn A (B, C) cast on three sts and work I-cord for 30 (38, 40) cm as folls:
K3, * push sts to end of needle, without turning work k3
Rep from * until length required is achieved
Cast off Attach one small and one large button to each end of I-cord and wind around towel decoratively as shown

Pattern Images

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Measurements and sizes

Small: 22cm x 22.5cm
Medium: 25cm x 28cm
Large: 30cm x 34cm

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Take particular care with your tension at the beginning and end of each row to keep your edges even

• When knitting three stitches together, be careful not to split the strands of the yarn
• When joining a new ball, do this on the third stitch from the edge of the work at the back, tie an overhand knot and then when finishing weave in the ends of the yarn carefully along the back edge
• To work the Swiss darning motif, thread a tapestry needle with yarn and insert it through the fabric from back to front, bringing it out at the bottom of the ‘v’ of the required stitch. Insert the needle through the two loops at the base of the stitch above, then take it back through the entry point. This creates the effect of a knitted stitch

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