As I check out the stats on my blog, I sometimes discover other sites that have linked to my blog. One in particular suggested using my flower coaster pattern to make a tawashi. Well, to be honest, at that point I was not positive what a tawashi was. So, I did some research and decided why not try it out myself. A popular tawashi pattern is shown on A Whole Load of Craft’s site.
A tawashi is a cute scrubbie used for cleaning things. Since I wanted to make the tawashi for use on the body as well as pots and pans, I used cotton. Most tawashi are made from acrylic. I am experimenting with a modified pattern using acrylic and nylon tulle. If you are not interested in cleaning your skin using the tawashi, acrylic would probably work just as well and some say even better.
Here is a description of what I did.
Flower Tawashi Pattern
Lauraslefthook 2008
Materials:
G or H hook
small amount of worsted weight cotton in two colors
nylon tulle, cut into 3 inch wide strips ( I found mine in the wedding section of the craft store in 6 inch wide rolls.)
Directions: Do not join rounds, unless noted.
Center: Make two. Make one with cotton and another with nylon tulle.
Round 1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook
Round 2: 2 sc in each sc (12 sc)
Round 3: 1 sc in first sc, 2sc in next sc; repeat around(18 sc). End off. Weave in ends.
Petals:
Holding the two centers together, crochet through both loops of cotton and nylon tulle with second cotton color.
Round 4: Join new color with sl st in any sc. (Hdc, dc) in next sc. (Dc, hdc) in next sc. Sl st in next sc. Repeat around, ending with dc, hdc.
Round 5: Sl st in sl st. 2 dc in each of next 4 stitches. Sl st in next sl st. Repeat around, ending with final set of dc. Finish off by weaving end into the first sl st.
Weave in ends.
Lauraslefthook 2008 Please do not sell this pattern or sell items made from this pattern. You may make as many items as you wish for family and friends with this pattern. If you wish to sell items made from this pattern, please contact me.
That’s a lovely idea. I might even try it with plastic bag yarn (plarn) for the center.
Love the idea! the flower is adorable 🙂
What a cute idea 🙂
That’s really cute, I’d never heard of Tawashi but it’s a great idea 🙂
How cute! I love tawashis and I really think yours is a perfect little pattern. Now if only I had some cotton yarn…
What a cute way to clean! (Wow, who’d have thought “cute” and “clean” could go in the same sentence?)
What a cute idea, I sure am going to make this for family and friends.
I love your scrubbie it will make a great x-mas gift
Great pattern! Fun and quick! Thanks for sharing! I’m making a set for my MIL as a thank-you.
Here’s my results:
What a very pretty idea. I love it and will have to give it a try. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for a great pattern. It is quick and super cute.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/sonjar/tawashi-scrubbie
Sonja
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Thank you, Now I know what to do with the small balls of yarn 🙂 and the pattern is writen Great, easy to understand 🙂 I had some christmas yarn I made one in, Going to make more.
I hope it is ok to link the pattern over here to your Blog 🙂
I have a friend that Has asked me to make some of these for her. I agreed that I would and did, but now her friends have started contacting me as well. I would love to do this, but I would charge for them. Since I don’t own the pattern I would like your permission to sell these.
They are really cute and fun. With Christmas coming up (and with so many requests so far) I will be busy. If you choose not to agree, I will respect your wishes.
Thanks so much for your time. BTW this is an awesome pattern!!!
Cheers,
Jan
As long as flower scrubbies are made to be sold off line and not in on line venues (which would be direct competition for me), I have no problem with these being made to be sold. Thanks so much for asking first.
I LOVE this pattern and I have made several little tawashis during the past year or so to share with friends and family. I have found that Needloft Plastic Canvas Yarn (100% nylon) makes a nice, scratchy feeling scrubber. I am still using the first tawashi I made with the otherwise nasty feeling stuff and even though the color has faded it still does a terrific job.
Thank you so much for posting this pattern. The tawashi makes a cute and useful accompaniment to my kitchen washcloth or hot pad gifts. I will be trying some of your newer patterns too.
This is a great pattern, and its easy to make! Thanks please post more crochet patterns!
Would you mind if our Women’s Mission Group made some flower scrubbies for our church bazaar using your pattern? They are sooooo… cute! We support our local SAAFE house and many other worthy needs including our servicemen.
Please feel free to do so. I am happy when my free patterns are used for these purposes and I appreciate very much that you asked me.
You are so kind to share your pattern with others. I feel as if I came to the right site, my name is also Laura and I used to be a preschool teacher. (years ago, am now retired) I will use the pattern to make scrubbies using nylon, but will try soft cotton for little wash cloths for my granddaughters to be!
hi,
mine came out kind of “ruffly” *curled” how do i make it flatter?
diane
I would double check to make sure you did not add extra stitches in the rounds, especially the petal rounds four and five. Mine does not lay totally flat as a scrubbie as you can see in the photos, which actually helps me with using it in cleaning.
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