Homemade Dish Scrubbers

Making a Nylon Scrubber

1). Cut the nylon netting into three 6-by-72 inch strips. Lay all three strips on top of one another, evenly lined up.
2). Thread your needle with the nylon thread. Sew lengthwise down the middle of the strips with long stitches, spaced approximately one inch apart, until you reach the end of the strips.
3). Hold the strips in one hand and the thread in the other, and pull back on the strips until they form a ball. Wrap the thread around the center of the ball and tie a knot. Cut the ends short and tuck them into the knot. Fluff the scrubber to finish it.

1). Decide how complex a dish scrubber you want to make. With the coarse yarn and netting or tulle cut into strips or the coarse yarn and nylon yarn, you can knit or crochet any simple pattern, depending on your skill level. Using netting as "thread" requires some preparation, however. Cut the netting or tulle into 1-inch-wide strips and tie the strips together end to end to make a coarse "thread."
2). Gather your cotton thread and nylon thread or homemade nylon "thread" and tie them into a basic slipknot as though they were one thread. Treating the two threads as one, form the slipknot by creating a loop in the joined threads; from one of the loose ends, draw another loop through the original loop and pull it tight.
3). Cast on 25 stitches, and knit or crochet your scrubber as desired. A typical scrubber is 3.5 by 5 inches. Knit or crochet as many rows as necessary to reach 5 inches or your desired length.
4). Tie the thread off as you normally would for a knitted or crocheted project, cut the thread and tuck any loose thread end back into the weave of the scrubber.