Tiebreaker Towel Set by Liz Salazar

Tiebreaker Towel Set

Crochet
June 2024
both are used in this pattern
Aran (8 wpi) ?
16 stitches and 16 rows = 4 inches
in Single Crochet
4.5 mm
1441 yards (1318 m)
One Size
US
English
This pattern is available for free.

Instructions are for a set of 2 Towels that are mirror images of each other. Each Towel is worked flat in rows using the crochet intarsia technique. The Border is worked in the round after the intarsia portion is complete. Color changes are indicated in the color charts provided.

To crochet using the intarsia technique, wind small bobbins of colors to be used for each separate area of color in the chart, changing colors according to the chart. To change color, work to last yarn over, pick up new color and pull through to complete stitch, drop the unused color attached to the bobbin to the wrong side of your work. Bobbins of yarn colors waiting to be used should always hang on the wrong side of your work. It is acceptable to mix in small sections of tapestry crochet technique by working a few stitches over un-used color strands where it makes more sense to do than to add a new color bobbin (usually when stitches just above are the same color). Be careful to keep all floats and/or un-used color strands on the wrong side of your work. When working from the chart, read odd-numbered rows from right to left and even-numbered rows from left to right.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS:
Width: 16”
Length: 24”

MATERIALS:
Premier® Yarns Home® Cotton (85% Recycled Cotton, 15% Polyester; 2.65 oz/75g, 131 yards/120 m)
• C1: 44-73 Green Speckle – 1 ball
• C2: 44-72 Yellow Speckle – 1 ball
• C3: 44-24 Flamingo Splash – 3 balls
• C4: 38-04 Yellow – 3 balls
• C5: 38-05 Peach – 3 balls

HOOKS & NOTIONS:
• US Size 7 (4.5 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge
• Tapestry needle
• Yarn bobbins

SKILLS/TECHNIQUES USED IN THIS PATTERN:
• Chain and single crochet stitches.
• Changing colors using the intarsia technique.
• Reading a color chart.
• Working in the round to create border.