Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spring Dish Scrubber

Finally the warm weather is coming around again and it feels like nature is on the move! To celebrate the warmer days that are on their way, I've designed this flower pot scrubber. I hope you all enjoy it and think of wonderful Spring activities!





Flower Dish Rag/ Pot scrubber

G Hook
Small amount of yarn
a few plastic grocery bags

The way I make my plastic yarn is on this wonderful site
http://www.myrecycledbags.com/2007/02/17/instructions-for-cutting-plastic-bags-creating-recycled-plastic-yarn/
but feel free to use any method you prefer!



Taking your plastic yarn,
Ch 5, join with a sl st.
Ch 2 add 9 hdc inside of chained ring join with a sl into to of 2 ch. ch3, dc in next hdc, ch 2, *2 dc in next hdc, dc in next hdc, ch 2* Repeat from * to * 3 more times, ch 2, dc in next hdc and join with a sl st in top of 3 ch. (You should have 5 ch 2 holes)
Tie off.
Change from plastic to yarn.

Join in 2 ch spot.
Ch 3, 3 dc in same ch 2 spot, ch 2, *4 dc in next ch 2 spot, ch 2* repeat from * to * 3 more times and sl st into top of 3 ch.
Turn, sl st into ch 2 spot. ch 3, 4 dc in same ch 2 spot, sc in between the second and third dc , *5 dc in next ch 2 spot, sc in between the second and third dc* repeat from * to * 3 more times sl st into top ch of 3 ch.
Ch 3, turn, dc in next dc, 2 dc in next dc, dc in next dc, dc in next dc, ch 1, sc in sc, *ch 1, dc in next two dc, 2 dc in next dc, dc in next two dc, ch 1, sc in sc, * repeat from * to * ch1, sl stitch into top ch of 3 ch. .
Tie off.

Switch back to plastic.

With right side facing Join in a sc and ch 2. Continue around the flower alternating one hdc and two hdc into each dc, sc, and ch-1 spot. Tie off.


Now as a ending, we would like to apologize for slacking off here lately. There's been moving and general mischief in our lives preventing us from fully jumping into the crafting.