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March 8, 2024October 30, 2024

Spring Flower Scrubby

One thing I love about crochet, how easy it is to add a fun and joyous spin to one of my most dreaded chores – dishes.

Several years ago I started making my own dish scrubbies, and I haven’t turned back. I love how fun they are to make, how easy they are to make, and how much personality they bring to my kitchen. They also make wonderful gifts. I always see one of my scrubbies at my Dad’s kitchen sink, so he finds them just as wonderful at cleaning dishes as I do.

With this pattern you can choose how much scrubby texture you prefer to crochet with, or none at all. The scrubby yarn does make it more difficult to see your stitches, but the effort is so very much worth the effort – at least in my opinion.

February 1, 2023October 30, 2024

Crochet Heart Scrubby

This pattern has taken me too long to make. Not that actually crocheting it took that long, took me about 20 minutes for the YouTube Tutorial – and that was with all the talking! No, getting in my head how to make this pattern took so long. Years long.

After publishing my first dish scrubby trio pattern collection a lady reached out to me asking where the heart pattern was. I had to really figure out what she was referring to since there was a round pattern, and two square ones. I finally determined it was from looking at one of the images of a square one draped over a pot that she perceived it to be a heart shape. These dish scrubbies were published in 2018. From her reaching out I began thinking of making a heart shaped scrubby. So, it took years.

October 16, 2019October 30, 2024

Women’s Crochet Vacation Shoes

Every summer my husband and I take our 4 kids on week long family vacation. We always stay a few days with family, and then a few days being tourists in different cities. This year I wanted a pair of shoes that were comfortable to walk in through all the tourist site-seeing, but something that also was cute. I wanted something different than my usual running shoes.

I went shopping at different stores and quickly found out that the type of shoe I wanted either cost way more than I wanted to spend, or if they were around the price I wanted then they were by no means comfortable since there was barely anything to them.

From previously seeing that there were shoe patterns crocheted on flip flops for bases I figured I could make me a pair to be what I wanted for vacation. Luckily Dollar Tree had a large inventory of flip flops for $1, I had some Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton in my stash; so with little investment I was ready to try making me a pair of shoes.

March 29, 2019October 30, 2024

Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag Crochet Pattern

As you all know from the Journey Bag post, I love bags. While I was making the Journey Bag the concept for this bag came to mind. I kept thinking about it, and found myself lying in bed at night thinking about how it would go together. It was then I knew it had to be made so that I could get sleep without dreaming of bags.

So, now Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag. While the bag looks like it is complicated to make since it is triangular, it really is just a rectangle that is folded on itself and strategically sewn in just 2 places. While crocheting around the edges you connect the top two points to make the strap, and the bag is complete.

July 12, 2018October 30, 2024

Waffle Scrubby Crochet Pattern

In addition to the Dual Duty Scrubber and the Summer Spiral Scrubby here is the Waffle Scrubby crochet pattern. When I still had yarn left after making the two previous scrubbies, I just kept going and made another new one since I had another idea.

This time I combined both yarns together to create a thicker and heavier scrubby. Since I upped the weight of the yarn by combining the two I also increased the hook size by 3 letters. Going from a H to a K hook. This gives a nice heavy fabric, but it isn’t too stiff to be unmanageable. Continue reading “Waffle Scrubby Crochet Pattern”

July 11, 2018October 30, 2024

Summer Spiral Scrubby Crochet Pattern

If you have read the blog post about my Dual Duty Scrubber here, you know that I am in the process of making our household more dish cloths. Instead of going out to purchase them I decided to make them (what is a better excuse to buy yarn!).

Of course, as a designer I couldn’t just stick to one pattern. I had to get creative. I had this idea of using the two different textures of yarn that I used in the Dual Duty in a spiraling pattern. To create this unique pattern and texture you work each yarn for only a portion of a round, switching back and forth between the yarns you are using. By switching back and forth between the yarns you create the spiraling pattern. Continue reading “Summer Spiral Scrubby Crochet Pattern”

July 10, 2018October 30, 2024

Dual Duty Scrubber Crochet Pattern

A few weeks ago I was running to the store and I asked my husband if he needed anything, his response caught me a bit by surprise – “buy more dish cloths for the kitchen.”

We had several Ikea packs of dish cloths to where they had their own stack in the cabinet, so many they filled to the top of the shelf. Also, we had several hand made crochet scrubbers that were given to us as gifts. Over time, unbeknownst to me, they had been deemed unusable and disappeared (they were getting beyond just being called “used”). I looked in the cabinet and we were down to 2 dish cloths.

So we needed more dish cloths. Continue reading “Dual Duty Scrubber Crochet Pattern”