Crocheted Bath Puff and Laundry

Well, thanks to Dee Dee’s instructions (http://firefly5555.blogspot.com/2011/06/bath-puff-pattern-with-improvements.html) I found another project to do this weekend.  I made a bath puff.  In the picture, the old, purchased one is on the left, mine on the right (still wet from my shower last night).  No matter what, it just felt like it wasn’t big enough.  I ended up doing about 8 rows.  I also did not use cotton yarn, because I don’t have any.  I also used a “G” size hook because that’s the smallest one I had.  The only thing I have to complain about is I’m not sure how to hold it!  LOL!  Not sure how I’m going to fix that.  What I was thinking about doing is taking the string/suction cup from the old one and cinching the center together so basically all the crocheted “brains” will all be on one side.   I’ve been thinking about the netting from the old scrubber.  I think this one I will make into produce bags, since I prefer to hang almost EVERYTHING in my kitchen since I do not have a lot of counter/cabinet space.

On a side note, I HAVE to do laundry today!  It’s been storming off and on for the past 4 days, and we have been without a dryer for … almost a year?  So, I thought I would share my drying techniques.  :)

Shirts and pants hang on hangers.  I use clothes pins to attach the pants to the hangers.  Underwear hangs on a line I strung in the laundry room, attached to the walls with huge hooks. The line I am using isn’t official clothes line.  When PG&E works on buried lines, they use Arnco Bull-line Wp25 Polyester Pull Tape (tensile strength of 2500 lb) “tape measure” which is a flat woven nylon rope with measurements printed along the rope.  Once they have cut it to the length they need, they throw it out!  I scored a huge pile of this line about 7 years ago and I’m still using it!  It’s fantastic for tying down a load for the dump AND it’s washable!  :)   The extra clothes hang in all the door ways.

Socks?  They hang on our old VHS tape rack!  Even with all the wet weather, the socks should be dry tonight.  It takes some planning, so we don’t run out of clothes before they are dry but so far it’s been working out real well (plus, no clothes have shrunk)!

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