Friday, September 07, 2007

Cotton Dish Sponges

Looking for the Crochet Dish Sponge pattern?? It's been moved to the Patterns Page on my new blog!


18 Taste Tests:

Wannabe said...

Um, someone needs to teach me to crochet so I can make 50 thousand of these. Ehem. Cough.

krysten said...

bring some cotton on saturday...and your "continental" hand. hee!

Anna said...

Thanks so much for this pattern. I just made one up and tried it with my Dawn Direct Foam and it works great! Now I know what to do with all those ends of the skeins. I'll also be adding one to the kitchen towel and dish cloth I'm giving as a wedding gift in two weeks.

Melissa said...

I. Love. This. I found the pattern about an hour ago and I've already made two. Thanks for revolutionizing my handmade kitchen cleaning.

krysten said...

anna - go glad you found this useful and honored that it found a place in your gift basket!

melissa - wow, you are very welcome! thank you for the compliment!

Tammy said...

These are great! Thanks for sharing the pattern....I've whipped up one while sitting here. =)

Anna said...

OK, I am now seriously addicted to making these. I found my bag of partial skeins and I have to see how each color looks made up. So easy to make and I just love useful things. I've been passing them out to everyone. Bet you never thought these'd be such a big deal to people. Thanks again for sharing the pattern!!!!

Wendy said...

I just found these a few hours ago, I have made 4 already and given 2 away and used one....I just had to tell you they are wonderful, just the right size to use and such an easy fast pattern...Thank You for the pattern, great job.....and great idea....

Dawn said...

I just found these and they look like a great pattern,but I'm rather new to crochet (6 months) and i understand most of the pattern but i have a couple of questions.I would like to email you about but can't find an email link for you.
What i don't understand is for starters in rd2-6 you say "reduce number of rounds here to shrink width" i'm not sure what that means.I also don't know what you mean by "create row"
I hope you can clarify these things for me as i would love to make this pattern.Thanks dawn

krysten said...

hi dawn, i'd be happy to clarify!

rd2-6: my side comment on that was just to let everyone know that if they add rounds to this section, so say do 8 rounds instead of 4, then the width of the sponge will be that much wider....so it was just a note for how to customize the pattern to your needs. :)

and creating the row is just making the round into a row by crocheting through both "layers" of the sponge, essentially closing the pocket. i'm just clarifying that you wont be working around in rounds anymore but back and forth in rows. :)

i hope that helps!!

Hazlecreek said...

This is a perfect project to add to my DD school fund raiser! Thanks for letting us use it for charity!

Anonymous said...

I have not crochet for years and i realy want to make this. I don’t understand:

Rd1 rem loops on other side of the same sc sts you just completed placing hdc tfl in,

I can’t seem to visualize which loops I am to us. Do you have a work in process picture?

Kimmie said...

What a great idea...thanks for generously sharing your wisdom!

Happy cleaning!

Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted
*on our way to Ethiopia to bring home two more! Come meet us!

Roxanna Smith said...

I am very excited to try this out. I love working with cotton yarn (I use Peaches 'n Cream mostly) & am always on the lookout for new patterns.

It looks easy to make & I thank you for putting this out!!

Roxanna in Ohio

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for this! I've already made half a dozen for quick tuck-in or add-on gifts, and I use the only one I kept for myself, constantly. I gotta make ME a few more! I love that they can be bleached, that they reach into corners, that they scrub without scratching, and that the size is right.

Craw said...

Brilliant! I made 2 last night real quick. It works great on my ceramic top stove. Cleans the burners without scratching. What a great idea!!!

Anonymous said...

I have a group that needs some table gifts. They are to give away, not to be sold, and love the pattern. I want to check with you before I voluntered to make them.

April M. said...

wonderful! awesome! thank you so much for posting this!

I've been very interested in converting my kitchen, and home for that matter, to handmade & natural products. I noticed my sponge is ready to be tossed, and it seems like I just replaced it. So the idea of crocheting a sponge came to mind. I figured it might be possible if dish rags can be made. I hate washing dishes with rags though.

It was great to find this post and see all the positive feedback. I'm so excited to find yet another solution I can make myself-- and I'll never have to toss another sponge after tonight!

Thanks again! (by the way, that dust mop idea rocks too!)