Description
This Witch Dishcloth is a fun Halloween crochet project featuring a bright green base, a black hat shape, and embroidered facial details. It’s a great beginner-friendly project that combines crafting with seasonal decoration or gifting.
Ingredients
- Lily® Sugar’n Cream yarn in Hot Green
- Lily® Sugar’n Cream yarn in Black
- Crochet hook, 5 mm
- Yarn needle for weaving in ends and sewing on the nose
- Scissors
- Black and contrasting embroidery thread, if needed for the facial details
- Stitch marker, optional
Instructions
- With Hot Green, chain 36.
- For the first row, work 1 single crochet in the second chain from the hook. Work 1 single crochet in each remaining chain to the end. Turn.
- For the second row, chain 1. Work 1 single crochet in each single crochet across. Turn.
- Repeat the second row 10 more times.
- Join Black at the end of the last green row. Secure the color change neatly so the edge remains tidy.
- Begin the hat shaping with Black. Chain 1.
- Draw up a loop in each of the next 2 stitches, then complete a single crochet two together.
- Continue working 1 single crochet in each stitch across until the last 2 single crochets.
- Work a single crochet two together over the final 2 stitches. Turn.
- Repeat the shaping row until 25 stitches remain.
- Continue shaping and finish the remaining upper section according to the original pattern layout.
- Embroider the mouth and eyes.
- Sew on the nose as shown in the pattern design.
- Weave in all loose ends securely on the wrong side of the dishcloth.
Notes
The supplied instructions do not include the remaining stitch-by-stitch shaping details or a separate nose pattern, so use the original pattern image or layout for those final shaping and assembly steps.