The thing is, unlike a lot of the knitters I know, I hate wool. It makes me itch. I don't usually make stuff for myself, but just working with wool yarn is iritating to my fingers if I do it for too long, so I tend to use yarn that feels nice and soft regardless of how natural it is. Usually, I make baby gifts, so I figure soft is good, and washable is better.
Lately though, I've gotten tired of pastels. I went through a phase where I both wanted to crochet and didn't want to look at anything in my yarn stash. Since I've promised Zack I won't buy more yarn until I've used up (and hopefully given away) a good bit of what I already have, this lead to a creative dilema for me. I went on a mad search for something to make that wouldn't require me to buy supplies. The result was this:
It's a pot scrubber. It's made from one of those shower scrubby things, which I cut into one long yarn-like strip. (The spoon is in the picture so you can see how big the final product is.) I had one made by someone else a long time ago and it worked really well, so I decided it was time for more. One shower scrubby thing made 8 or so scrubbers, so now I'm set for a loooong time. And it was a rather gratifying project. I mean, cutting up the material was rather a pain, and it took some practice crocheting it at first, but they turned out to be a nice useful thing. And it kept my hands busy while I watched Lost.
Now I'm back on another baby project, but I'm thinking about doing another non-yarn project again sometime soon. We'll see what happens.
