Crochet napkins: first experiments

2025 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-22 22:09

Wishing to create additional comfort in the house, many needlewomen start knitting napkins. Of course, everyone wants to immediately weave a large openwork napkin, but the lack of knitting experience and practice affects. The first models are often not very successful.

To fill your hand, it is better to find small, not too complex patterns. Crocheting napkins for beginners involves creating small, neat products. To get started, just choose a napkin, which is not only attached to the diagram, but also a detailed description of the process.

Crochet napkins are made from thin cotton threads: only in this case you can get an openwork, as if airy, product. The hook must match the threads: the ideal crochet hooks for lace napkins are numbers 0, 5 and 1 when using fine cotton threads.

If you want to knit a thick napkin to use it as a coaster, then it is better to choose a thicker yarn for knitting, the hook number must matchthe number on the yarn label.

Knitting the most popular round napkins crochet starts from the center: first, a chain consisting of air loops is typed, which is connected into a ring. For knitting each of the subsequent rows, it is necessary to dial a lifting chain consisting of 2 or 3 air loops. To get a beautiful napkin, just like in the picture, you must follow the instructions exactly, not forgetting that crochet napkin patterns are the main source of information for both beginners and experienced knitters. But if it is easy enough for a knitting professional to navigate the conventions, then it is better for a beginner to try to remember what each of the symbols means. Crocheting napkins in this case will go much faster.

If you decide to start your acquaintance with crochet with knitting napkins, then it’s better not to rush and practice knitting different loops: double and strong stitches, single crochets and crochets, with double and even triple crochets.

For the first experiments, you can choose a square or rectangular napkin, which is knitted in rows. So, a fairly popular version of a napkin is a sirloin net. Knitting it is quite simple: cast on a series of air loops (its length depends on the desired length of the product), then knit 3 loops for lifting. Inserting the hook into the 3rd loop, not counting the one already on the hook, knit a pattern, alternating between empty and knitted cells. Forcreating an empty cell, you need to knit a single crochet, followed by 2 air loops. For a filled cell, 3 double crochets are knitted in a row. At the beginning of each new row, do not forget to make 3 lifting chains. This way you will knit a checkered napkin.

If you like crocheting napkins in this way, you can create original patterns. Having drawn the ornament or figure you are interested in, knit in such a way that the pattern itself is knitted with filled cells and is surrounded by empty cells. You can even make themed napkins this way and use them as a gift: an anchor for a sailor, a violin for a music teacher, a scale for a seller.

If you still want to learn how to crochet napkins, starting immediately with round openwork patterns, then you need to be prepared for the fact that at first it will be quite difficult to navigate, but over time you will even be able to develop author's napkin patterns, creating unique options.