These daisy dish scrubbies were fun to make. I liked the way the cupped petals took shape. I must admit, by the time I got to the third one, I didn’t think I’d ever make it to the last petal!

Pattern: Flower Scrubbies (PDF file). (You must logged in to FreePatterns.com to download the pattern. It’s free to join.) Designed by Denise Rothberg, published in Annie’s Favorite Crochet Magazine (October 2002), and now available on FreePatterns.com.

Yarn: Peaches & Creme; colors: 10 (Yellow), 3 (Cream), and 1 (White); 4-ply, worsted weight, 100% cotton.

It’s funny, I distinctly remember where I bought the plastic scrubbies even though they’d been lying around in my craft supplies for some time: the yellow ones came from a corner grocery at the beach and the red one from a dollar store.

The trick was evenly spacing the first round, since scrubbies aren’t always the same size. I used stitch markers to divide them into quarters. Is that obsessive?

The one with the red center is my favorite color combo, so it’s getting a close-up.

Oh, and how can I not plug the site that helped me find this pattern? CrochetPatternCentral.com, always my first stop for free pattern searching!

Whoops, mommy has been paged! (That would be me.) (I’m tellin’ ya, he should’ve slept for at least another 45 minutes!) So I’m outta time for now. I’ll be back another day with the flower pins!

This time, for Crochetville Spring Secret Pals, I embarked upon a zippered, lined pouch for my pal, Heather. Hmm, I see a trend in these ambitious projects… sewing! At which I am quite amateur!

The details:

• No pattern, I just crocheted a rectangular pouch (all sc, in the round) to fit the 7-inch all-purpose zipper I bought.
• J&P Coats, Crochet Nylon, black
• Size H hook
• Two small pieces of fabric (one patterned blue satiny and one black) from my stash
• I machine sewed the zipper as far as I could, but had to do some hand sewing at the ends.
• I machine sewed the seams for the lining, and sewed it into the crocheted pouch by hand. (I used a layer of black fabric on the outside of the blue lining so the light blue wouldn’t show through the crochet stitches.