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BEERCAP HOT PAD CROCHET

Get creative with this free crochet pattern. Using beer caps as your base, you can make a reallyneat hot pad pattern. You'll love the end result.

SIZE6.5 inches across

MATERIALS

y Aunt Lydia's Classic Crochet (Size 10); need approximately 75 yardsy Size 9/1.40MM crochet hooky 19 beer caps of your choicey Sewing needle

GAUGE

24 dc/12 rows = 4" in stockinette stitch

PATTERN NOTESCh = ChainDc = Double Crochet

Sc = Single CrochetSc Dec = Single Crochet Decrease (Insert hook in first stitch indicated, yo, pull up loop, insert

hook in second stitch indicated, yo, pull up loop, yo, pull thru remaining 3 loops on hook.)Sl St = Slip Stitch

PATTERN

Cap Cover

Ch 5, slst to first stitch to join.Ch 3, 15 dc in ring, slst to join at top of ch 3. Make sure to dc over the tail of the chain to hide it.

(16 dc)Ch 2, sc in same st, *sc 3, 2 sc in next st*, repeat between * two more times, sc 3, slst with top of

Beg ch to join (20 sts)Ch 2, sc in every st around, slst with top of Beg ch to join. (20 sts)

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Ch 3, dc in every st around, slst with top of Beg ch to join. (20 sts)Sc Dec around, slst with top of Beg ch to join (10 sts)

Sc dec around, slst with top of Beg ch to join (5 sts)Break thread and weave through remaining 5 loops, tie closed and weave in ends.

FINISHING

Using scrap crochet cotton, sew 6 cover caps around one central cap on the underneath side

where they touch. Then join 12 covered caps around the six. You can mix and match colorhowever you like, so use you imagination!