NeedleworkMonday: International Scrubby [Eng/Ger]

My Tawashi - Japanese name, US yarn and German handicraft

I love to make small useful things as gifts. Friends of mine crochet and knit potholders or dish cloths. I don't like working with cotton yarn so I sometimes try new patterns that way but not more. I already had this great yarn: Cleany - seems they simply imported Red Heart's Scrubby and put it in smaller skeins ;) I have already showed you the bath mitt I made out of it and I was looking for more stuff do make with it. I saw a round spirally thingie when visiting a friend - "that's a tawashi" she told me - she had several of them in the kitchen and the bathroom, both for cleaning herself and pots. Ah, of course. A tawashi.

Now you may have already gotten the impression - I can't stand not knowing things. As soon as I was home I took a dive into the internet and found several patterns. I followed them, started knitting, after several "interesting" results adapted them for this yarn and voilà - there was my tawashi.

You can download the pattern as a PDF. Of course you can use another yarn like cotton, too, though you might have to adapt the number of stitches.

Information for those who think about the hygienics of reusable wash and dish cloths: Before laundering theses things make them dripping wet, put them on a small plate or in a bowl, put it into the microwave and activate that for 4 minutes on the highest level. Attention afterwards - it is really, really hot! But that should kill about 90% of the germs in it (I read a study about that because I had doubts, too).

Die ist ein recht schnell gemachtes Projekt um sich oder andere Dinge zu reinigen. Gemacht aus Cleany von Schachenmayr, man kann aber auch sicherlich "Topflappengarn" oder anderes nehmen. Da müsste man dann nur drauf schauen ob das mit der Maschenzahl geht - wie immer "Versuch macht kluch". Ich habe die Anleitung die ich mir für dieses Garn erarbeitet habe als PDF zum herunter laden - wer es auf deutsch möchte schreibt mich einfach an. Ich bin auch auf dem D-A-CH-Discord unter meinem Steemit-Namen zu finden.

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