Honeycomb Hot Pad
EASY
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
93/4 inches wide x 83/4 inches long
MATERIALS
• Lizbeth size 3 crochet cotton (120 yds per ball): 2 balls each #669 poppy red and #602 natural
• Size 5/1.90mm steel crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge
• Starch
GAUGE
7 rows = 2 inches; 14 dc = 2 inches
PATTERN NOTES
Weave in loose ends as work progresses. Carry cotton not in use along back of piece. Chain-3 at beginning of row counts as first double crochet unless otherwise stated. Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated.
HOT PAD SIDE 1
Row 1: With red, ch 69, dc in 4th ch from hook (3 sk chs count as first dc), dc in each of next 6 chs, changing color (see
Stitch Guide) to natural in last st, with natural, [dc in each of next 3 chs, changing color to red in last st, dc in each of next 9 chs, changing color to natural in last st] 4 times, dc in each of next 3 chs, changing color to red in last st, dc in each of next 8 chs, turn. (67 dc) Note: Continue to change color in last step of last dc of red or natural. Row 2: Ch 3 (see Pattern Notes), dc in each of next 4 dc, [with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 3 dc] 9 times, with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 5 dc, turn. (67 dc)
Rows 3–5: Ch 3, dc in next dc, [with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 9 dc] 5 times, with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 2 dc, turn. Row 6: Rep row 2.
Rows 7–9: Ch 3, dc in each of next 7 dc, [with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 9 dc] 4 times, with natural, dc in each of next 3 dc, with red, dc in each of next 8 dc, turn. Rows 10–25: [Rep rows 2–9 consecutively] twice.
Rows 26–31: [Rep rows 2–7 consecutively] once, at the end of last rep, fasten off.
SIDE 2
Work as for Side 1, reversing color placement.
JOINING
Block Hot Pad to finished measurements. Holding WS tog, join (see Pat
tern Notes) red in any corner, working through both thicknesses, ch 1, 3 sc in same st as beg ch-1, sc evenly sp across edge, [3 sc corner st, sc evenly sp across edge] 3 times, join in beg sc. Fasten off.