Heavy Duty Dishcloth
Materials Needed:  About 2-3 oz of worsted weight cotton yarn, Size H crochet hook, yarn needle.

Special Stitches:  Long Single Crochet (LSC).  Insert hook in space indicated (in this pattern it will be two rows below the row you are working on), pull up a loop, yarn over and draw through both loops on hook.

Chain 38

Row 1:  SC in 2nd ch from hook and each ch across.  (37 sc)

Row 2:  Ch 3 (counts as first DC), turn,  *skip next two stitches, in next stitch do (dc,sc,dc), *  repeat from * across to last three stitches.  Skip next two stitches, dc in last stitch.

Row 3:  Ch 1, turn.  SC in  same stitch, ch 3, * sc in next sc, ch 3* repeat from *across.  SC in last stitch.

Row 4:  Ch 1, turn.  sc in same stitch.  *(LSC in skipped stitch of row 2) twice, sc in next sc*  Repeat across.

Row 5:  Ch 1, turn.  Sc in same stitch and each stitch across.  (37 sc).

Repeat rows 2-5, eleven times.  DO NOT FINISH OFF.

Edging:

Ch1, DO NOT TURN, sc evenly around cloth with 3 sc in each corner.

Finish off and weave in ends.

Copyright:  Laurie Clark, June 2001