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The Brick and Mortar Dishcloth Pattern

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The Brick and Mortar Dishcloth is knit using the mosaic colorwork technique with slip stitches and two different colors of yarn. In mosaic knitting only one color of yarn is needed per row. The mosaic pattern in the Bricks and Mortar Dishcloth is formed with garter slip stitches and by switching the two different colors of yarn back and forth every two rows. The Brick and Mortar Dishcloth is knit flat and measures about 7.5 x 7.5 inches after washing. The dishcloth is finished with a round of crochet moss stitch and a round of slip stitch, chain one border edge with a hanging loop.


The Brick and Mortar Dishcloth Pattern (text and images for personal use only)

Materials Needed:
Yarn: Premier Home Cotton® Cone yarn in Jelly Dots (Colorway 1) and Lily Sugar’n Cream yarn in Country Red (Colorway 2) 
Tapestry needle to weave in ends
Gauge: 4.5 stitches per inch in garter stitch pattern
Knitting Needles: US #7 (4.5 mm) for knitting the dishcloth and US#8 (5.0 mm) for cast on.
Crochet hook: US size G-6 or 4.0 mm for the border edge

Knitting Skill Level: Advanced beginner to Intermediate level with  2 color mosaic knitting and slip stitches
Crochet Skill Level: Basic level with single crochet, chain one, and slip stitch 

Abbreviations:

  • K: Knit
  • P: Purl
  • wyib S1: with yarn held back slip one stitch purlwise
  • pm: place marker
  • sm: slip marker
  • wyif S1: with yarn in front slip one stitch purlwise
  • RS: right side
  • WS: wrong side
  • sc: single crochet
  • […]: stitch pattern repeats

Cast on:

With US #8 knitting needles and Colorway 1 yarn, cast on 32 stitches using the thumb or any other long tail cast on method of choice

Dishcloth Stitch Pattern:

With US #7 knitting needles, knit the following:

  • Row 1 (RS): With Colorway 1 yarn – K1, pm, knit to 1 stitch before last, pm, wyif S1
  • Row 2 (WS): K1, sm, knit to marker, sm, wyif S1
  • Row 3: With Colorway 2 yarn – K1, sm, K4, [wyib S1 purlwise, K5], repeat […] three more times, wyib S1 purlwise, K1, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 4: K1, sm, K1, [wyif S1 purlwise, bring yarn to the back, K5], repeat […] three more times, wyif S1 purlwise, yarn back, K4, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 5: With Colorway 1 yarn – K1, sm, knit to marker, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 6: K1, sm, K1, [P1, K5], repeat […] three more times, K4, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 7: With Colorway 2 yarn – K1, sm, K1, [wyib S1 purlwise, K5], repeat […] three more times, wyib S1 purlwise, K4, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 8: K1, sm, K4, [wyif S1 purlwise, bring yarn to the back, K5], repeat […] three more times, wyif S1 purlwise, yarn back, K1, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 9: With Colorway 1 yarn – K1, sm, knit to marker, sm, wyif S1 purlwise
  • Row 10: K1, sm, K4, [P1, K5], repeat […] three more times, K1, sm, wyif S1 purlwise

Repeat Rows 3 – 10, six more times
Break Colorway 2 yarn and secure the yarn tail to Colorway 1 yarn

Bind Off:

Bind off Row 1 (RS): Colorway 1 yarn, K1, sm, knit to marker, sm, wyif S1
Bind off Row 2 (WS): With US #8 knitting needles, bind off purlwise removing the markers

Dishcloth Border Edge (see image below):

Round 1 (Crochet Moss Stitch):

  1. With G-6 (4.0 mm) crochet hook and Colorway 2 yarn, make a slip knot (watch video tutorial) and bring it under and through the V of the last stitch of Bind off Row 1 (RS), chain 2, sc, chain 1 in the same stitch. Turn in counter clockwise direction (see image below)
  2. [Sc in the slipped row edge stitch, chain 1, skip the next stitch], and repeat […] all along the front left side of the dishcloth till the last corner stitch
  3. Sc in the corner stitch, chain 2, sc chain one all in the same corner stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
  4. [Sc, chain 1 in the next stitch of the cast on edge, skip the next stitch], repeat […] all along the cast on edge till the last corner stitch
  5. Repeat step 3 at the corner stitch
  6. Repeat step 4 going up along the front right side of the dishcloth
  7. Repeat step 3 at the corner stitch. 
  8. Repeat step 4 all along the bind off edge of the dishcloth till the stitch at beginning of round 

Round 2 (Slip stitch, chain 1):

  1. In the corner stitch chain 2 space, [slip stitch in the chain 2 space, chain 1], repeat […] once more . Turn in counter clockwise direction
  2. [In the chain 1 space of the crochet moss stitch, slip one, chain one], repeat […] all along the front left side of the dishcloth
  3. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch. Turn in counter clockwise direction
  4. Repeat step 2 all along the front cast on edge of the dishcloth
  5. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
  6. Repeat step 2 all along the front right side of the dishcloth
  7. At the corner stitch, [slip one, chain one] twice in the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch, turn in counter clockwise direction
  8. Repeat step 2 all along the bind off edge till the last stitch in that row.
  9. Chain 10 for the hanging loop 
  10. Slip stitch into the chain 2 space of the crochet moss stitch corner edge and pull yarn through

BrickandMortarDishcloth_direction

Break Colorway 1 yarn and weave in the ends
Wash and block the Brick and Mortar Dishcloth

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