This washcloth has a beautiful wheel pattern called a “Catherine wheel”.  It crochets up loosely, but if you wash it in the washing machine it tightens up.  You will need cotton yarn and a J hook.  This pattern is for one color; if you want to use two colors, then do the base chain and the first row in Color 1, and then do every two rows after that in separate colors.

The CL (cluster stitch) in this pattern is as follows:
YO, insert hook, yo, draw loop through, yo, draw through 2 loops – over the number of stitches indicated.  Then YO and pull it through all the loops on your hook.  You should usually have 1 more loop on the hook than the number of stitches you used in the cluster- for example, if you did a cluster over 3 stitches, you should have 4 loops on your hook.

Ch 37.

Row 1 – Sc into 2nd ch from hook.  Sc in next ch.  *Skip 3 ch and dc 7 times in next ch.  Skip 3 ch and sc in each of the next 3 ch.  Repeat from * across until you come to the last 4 ch.  Skip 3 ch and dc 4 times into the last ch.

Row 2 – Ch 1.  Sc into first st and into next st.  *Ch 3.  CL over next 7 st.  Ch 3.  Sc into each of next 3 st.  Repeat from * to the last 4 st.  Ch 3.  CL over next 4 st.  Skip the turning ch.

Row 3 – Ch 3 (counts as first dc.)  3 dc in the first st.  *Skip 3 ch and sc in next 3 st.  Skip 3 ch and dc 7 times into the loop that closed the CL.  Repeat from * across.  End finishing with a “skip 3 ch”.  Sc into each of the last 2 st, skip the turning ch.

Row 4 – Ch 3 (counts as first dc.)  1 CL over next 3 st.  *Ch 3.  Sc into each of next 3 st.  Ch 3.  CL over next 7 st.  Repeat from * across.  You will finish with 3 ch; sc into next st, sc into top of turning ch.

Row 5 – Ch 1.  Sc into each of first 2 st.  *Skip 3 ch.  Dc 7 times into loop that closed the CL.  Skip 3 ch.  Sc into each of next 3 sc.  Repeat from * across.  You will end with a “skip 3 ch”; dc 4 times into top of turning ch.

Repeat rows 2, 3, 4, and 5 until the washcloth is the length that you want.  Ch 2 and sc around the edges; make sure you do 3 sc in corners.  This makes the washcloth look neat and gives it a good ending touch.