Start your handmade gift-giving season strong with this free trinity stitch face scrubby crochet pattern, the perfect quick and luxurious treat your loved ones will adore.
Design Story and Inspiration for This Crochet Face Scrubby
It’s that time of year again where I design for my annual Holiday Maker’s Challenge!! This is the 7th year that I have done the challenge, and I’m excited to be doing it again!
I designed this pattern as part of the 2025 Holiday Maker’s Challenge, where we encourage each other to work to our holiday deadline. There are a few criteria for our patterns in the challenge, which are:
1. Uses stash yarn
2. Is easy to intermediate
3. Is small so it doesn’t take a long time to make (we have a lot of gifts to make, okay?)
4. Is well received by gift recipients
This fits the bill because you can make a ton of face scrubbies with a single skein of yarn and they are very well received as gifts!
Yarn Options for Face Scrubbies
For this pattern, I used Yarn Bee Sugarwheel Cotton, a DK weight yarn that is wonderful for projects like these. It’s a category #3 yarn and 100% cotton, which I definitely recommend for face scrubbies.
Every year I design face scrubbies as part of the Holiday Maker’s Challenge and I personally keep the sample ones and use them. We toss them in with the regular laundry and they wash and dry great! They do get a little smaller after a few washings, but I like them even better then!
Pattern Details for the Trinity Stitch Face Scrubby
This pattern is worked in the Trinity Stitch, a wonderfully textured stitch that is easy to learn. it’s finished off with a simple round of single crochet.
Don’t know how to work the trinity stitch? Check out this video tutorial and you can make a matching face scrubby and wash cloth set!
Trinity Stitch Video Tutorial
Trinity Stitch Face Scrubby
What You’ll Need
Yarn: We Crochet Dishie, or other worsted weight cotton yarn
Hook: US Size 7 (4.50mm)
Notions: Yarn needle, scissors
Gauge: 20 sts and 16 rows = 4″ in trinity stitch
Finished Size: Approximately 3.5″ square
Trinity Stitch Face Scrubby Pattern
Ch 16 (or any even number).
Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc3tog inserting hook into same ch as first sc and next 2 ch, *ch 1, sc3tog inserting hook into same ch as last and next 2 ch; repeat from * to last ch, sc in last ch; turn. (15 sts)
Row 2: Ch 1, sc in first st, sc3tog inserting hook into same st as first sc and next 2 sts, *ch 1, sc3tog inserting hook into same st as last and next 2 sts; repeat from * to end, sc in last st; turn.
Repeat row 2 until piece is square (same height and width).
Border
Sc evenly around edge of face scrubby, working (sc, ch 1, sc) in each corner.
Fasten off.
Weave in ends.
Final Thoughts on the Trinity Stitch Face Scrubby
I hope you enjoy this pattern as much as I enjoyed designing it!! I love adding these face scrubbies to my collection! 😀
Join me for our seventh annual holiday challenge – but only until December 25!
Happy Crocheting!
Amanda
