Free Pattern: Scrubby Yarn Review and Flower Scrubbers

Free pattern and yarn review

Last week Red Heart Yarns sent me some Scrubby yarn to try. At first glance it looks like a cross between fur and a brillo pad! I actually squealed when I saw the bright colors and even the names, such as ducky, ocean and grape are fun too. I couldn’t wait to start playing with it.

Since I have been working on scrubbies each week, this was the perfect yarn for me. Because of the texture, I wanted to make something easy to hold while scrubbing.

These simple flowers whipped up quickly (less than 30 minutes each) and were easy to make. I enjoyed the yarn and it was surprisingly soft to work with. It goes a long way too! I could make a ton of these scrubbies out of two skeins.

Another interesting thing about this yarn is that it is heavier than what I expected. I think these little scrubbies will be super strong, like the super heroes of dish cleaning.

Suggestions for working with the yarn

The label calls for an I hook, but I chose to use an H for a more dense scrubby. Either hook would be great tho.

Make sure you have good lighting, especially for the darker colors, so you can see your stitches. It isn’t “hard” to see the stitches, just not as easy as regular acrylic yarn.

Scrubby yarn doesn’t slide like regular acrylic yarn so I would start round projects with a chain and join into a loop instead of a magic loop/circle

 

 

Scrubby Flower Dots

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Materials

Red Heart Scrubby Yarn, Red Heart Creme de la Creme Cotton Yarn

Crochet Hook: H
Miscellaneous: yarn needle

 

Instructions included for flowers made with and without Scrubby yarn. I think these make cute flower embellishments too! Choose from the options below

All Scrubby yarn
1. With H hook and Scrubby yarn for center of flower, ch 4, sl st in last ch to join.
2. 10 sc in loop. Place marker for working in the round. (10sts)
3. 2hdc in each st until 1 st remains, (hdc, sc) in last st. (20sts)
4. Change to another Scrubby yarn color. Sl st in next st, ch 2, hdc 3, 2hdc in next st, repeat to end of round, sl st to join. (25sts)
5. Ch 2, 3dc in each st to end of round, sl st to join. (75sts)
6. ch 4, sl st in next st, repeat to end of round. Finish off and weave in ends.

Scrubby yarn center and cotton petals
1. With H hook and Scrubby yarn for center of flower, ch 4, sl st in last ch to join.
2. 10 sc in loop. Place marker for working in the round. (10sts)
3. 2hdc in each st until 1 st remains, (hdc, sc) in last st. (20sts)
4. Sl st in next st, ch 2, hdc 3, 2hdc in next st, repeat to end of round, sl st to join. (25sts)
5. Change to non Scrubby yarn. Ch 2, 3dc in each st to end of round, sl st to join. (75sts)
6. ch 4, sl st in next st, repeat to end of round. Finish off and weave in ends.

Non Scrubby yarn
1. With H hook and yarn for center of flower, start with a magic loop of 5 sts (or preferred method for
starting a circle of 5 sc sts ), pull closed and place marker for working in the round. (5sts).
2. 10 sc in loop. (10sts)
3. 2hdc in each st until 1 st remains, (hdc, sc) in last st. (20sts)
4. Sl st in next st, ch 2, hdc 3, 2hdc in next st, repeat to end of round, sl st to join. (25sts)
5. Change yarn. Ch 2, 3dc in each st to end of round, sl st to join. (75sts)
6. ch 4, sl st in next st, repeat to end of round. Finish off and weave in ends.

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