Scrubbie

This eco-friendly, reusable sponge scrubber is super easy to make. All you need is a couple of rectangles of terrycloth fabric. I just use an old towel that's starting to fray at the edges, and recycle that. And then some mesh fabric. It might be called cargo mesh.

But it's just got enough abrasion that it allows you to scrub and get the grit off. Your pans. And then on the other side, you've got yours. Terry cloth for regular washing. So, you can do this at any size.

I've cut my rectangles at 5 by 6 inches. And we need two rectangles of our terry cloth, and one of our cargo mesh. Or mesh fabric. And all we're going to do is sandwich this mesh. In between the layers of the terry cloth.

And if you have, like, a print or something, pretty on one side of your cloth, Make sure that when you turn that right side out, that, So we've got, you know, if it's something you want facing up, Then, this would be your outside. So, when we turn that right side out, I want to make sure that this is showing through. But mine, I don't have a right or wrong side on my towel. So I'm just. Going to sandwich that mesh.

Between my towel layers, put a few pins in, and we're just going to stitch the perimeter. Using a 1/2-inch seam allowance, we need to leave an opening. On one side, turning everything right side out. So, here’s my opening on one long edge. So, I’m going to start stitching at One side of my opening.

I'm using 1/2-inch seam allowances, so I'm going to. Backstitch right there, the side of my opening. And when I get to 0.5 inch from next edge, I leave the needle down and pivot. And we're going to stitch all the way around until we reach the other side of our opening. So here’s the other side of our opening into backstitch.

To lock that. And before I turn this right-side-out, I want to clip off some of the excess at the corners. Because terry cloth can be quite bulky. I don't want that bulk in the corners, and I'm actually going to double-clip. So, I clipped once, and I'll clip then this corner that results.

And that is super useful, especially if you have the, um, the finished Edge from the towel that you are upcycling. Because that adds bulk, I'm clipping, making sure to clip that out. And then we can turn this right side out. And like I was saying, if you have a right side, on one of your towels that you want to show. Through the cargo mesh, make sure when you turn this right side out that the mesh is facing Against.

Whatever pretty side you want to show. And I'm going to use my paint turner to help push these corners out. And then all you need to do is topstitch around the edges. So we're going to tuck our opening seam allowances down in. So that it forms a nice, straight line.

And you can use pins, or you can use clips. To flatten that out. And then we're just going to top-stitch the perimeter. Between 1/4 inch and 3/8 of an inch. Close up this opening and flatten down these Edges.

And again, at the corners, we pivot. And it gets pretty bulky under the foot, so if you need to give it some help around there Corners. So the topstitching helps to flatten everything down. And hold everything together, and now. We have a little scrubby that has enough abrasion on this.

Side to scrub those dried bits on your pan, and you can throw it in the Wash and reuse it so you don't have to buy your sponges ever again.