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Title: Country Goose Potholder
Categories: Crochet, Kitchen
Yield: 1 servings
4 oz Blue cotton 4 ply yarn
Small amount white or other
Contrasting color yarn
Small Amount Black yarn
Or embroidery floss
(for embroidery of eyes)
Small amount yellow or gold yarn for beak
Yarn needle
Crochet Hook Size H or
Whatever size will result
In gauge: 16sc and 18 rows
= 4 inches
Potholder: BACK:
With Blue or other Main Color: Chain 29
Row 1 (Right Side): SC in second ch from hook and in
each chain across: 28 sc
Note: Loop a short piece of yarn around any stitch to
mark last row as right side.
Rows 2-33: Ch 1, turn; sc in each sc across. Finish
off.
FRONT: Work same as back.
Edging: With WRONG sides together and working through
BOTH thicknesses, join contrasting color with slip st
in top RIGHT corner...(any corner will become right
corner) ch 1, 2 sc in same stitch, sc evenly across to
next corner (3sc in corner, sc evenly across to next
corner) around, sc in same st as joining; join with sl
st to first sc in same st as joining; join with sl st
to first sc, ch 10, slip st in same st for hanging
loop); finish off.
Goose:
With white or other contrasting color: Chain 17.
Row 1: (RIGHT SIDE): SC in second ch from hook and in
each ch across: 16 sc.
Note: Place marker to mark last row as RIGHT side.
rows 2-4: Ch 1, turn; 2sc in first sc, sc in each sc
across: 19 sc
Row 5: Ch 1, turn; sc in each sc across
Row 6: Ch 1, turn; decrease, sc in each sc across: 18
sc
Row 7: Ch 1, turn; sc in each sc across to last 2 sc,
decrease : 17 sc
Row 8: Ch 1, turn; decrease, sc in next 5 sc, hdc in
next 4 sc, dc in next sc, hdc in next 4 sc, 2 sc in
last sc
Row 9: Ch 1, turn; 2 sc in first sc, sc in next sc,
hdc in next 3 hdc, dc in next hdc and in next dc, hdc
in next 4 hdc, sc in next 4 sc, decrease.
Row 10: Ch 1, turn; decrease, sc in next 3 sc, leave
remaining sts unworked: 4sc.
Row 11: Ch 1, turn; 2 sc in first sc, sc in next sc,
decrease
Row 12: Ch1, turn; sc in each sc across.
Rows 13 & 14: Repeat Rows 11 and 12.
Row 15: Chain 3, turn; dc in same st, hdc in next 2
sc, sc in last sc, 5 sts.
Row 16: Ch 1, turn; sc in first sc, dc in next 4 sts.
Row 17: Ch 3, turn; dc in same st and in next dc, hdc
in next dc, decrease.
Row 18: Ch 1, turn; decrease, sc in next st, dc in
last 2 sts: 4 sts
Row 19: Ch 3, turn; dc in next dc, sc in last 2 sc
Row 20: Ch 1, turn; decrease (place marker around st
just made to mark Beak placement.)
Row 21: Ch 1, turn; pull up a loop in each st across,
YO and draw through all loops on hook; finish off.
BEAK: Row 1:
With RIGHT side facing, join yellow or gold yarn with
slip st in end of marked st; ch 1, sc in end of same
row and in end of next row: 2 sc
Row 2: Ch 1, turn; decrease: 1 sc
Row 3: Ch 1, turn; sc in sc, finish off.
Place french knot on goose for eye.
Place goose at angle with head toward hanging loop on.
Whip stitch around goose to sew it too front of
potholder. I tried just using white yarn, but it looks
better if you use yellow or gold around the beak.