I hate dish rags, but I LOVE hand towels.
Especially hand towels that really REALLY absorb water.
So I made one.
Heather’s Handtowel
When What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? was coming out I needed some mindless knitting to keep me cognitively anchored (ahem) but not overwhelm me.
Enter my very own hand towel.
I blocked mine wet… well… just because that’s what I do when I wash knitted things. It didn’t really need it.
The stitch pattern is easy when you know what you’re doing, but if you’ve never knit twisted stitches, I recommend watching the brief tutorial video that is linked to from the pattern. It’s a private link so you won’t be able to search for it—just use the direct link on page 2.
Heather’s Handtowel reverse
Worsted / 10 ply (9 wpi) 
6.5 stitches and 8 rows = 1 inch in garter
US 6 – 4.0 mm
95 – 175 yards (87 – 160 m)
$3 USD — buy now
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I am looking for a pattern for a knitted kitchen hand towel that you can hang on an oven door. The one I received as a gift is made much like the square dishcloths, but it is rectangular and has a knitted piece that folds over and buttons. It looks like it starts with 4-6 stiches and increases up to 60, possibly, and then decreases to the same starting number. I just cannot figure out how it is rectangular rather than square. Any patterns or suggestions. The towel is about 11 inches long and 8 inches wide with a flap that extends about 6 inches to fold over for hanging.
Aside from the towel I made, I haven’t really made much of an examination. Have you checked through pictures on Ravelry yet?
I need to see the video for the hand towel I have the pattern but don’t understand the twisted stitch
On the pdf of the pattern the link to the video is at the top of the second page. Hope it helps!!!
can’t access page two without buying the pattern again, to bad it is a cute towel
Yikes! It sounds like something went wrong! From where did you buy the pattern? If Ravelry, what’s your Rav name. I’ll have the system put it in your library again.