...Recycling...an Onion Bag Scrubbie...

...remember...way back when...a long time ago...I posted my Dishy Scrubby Thingy pattern...(wow...that was a long time ago)...

...I had bought the netting in North Dakota to stretch over our cabbages in the garden...to keep the little white moths from getting on them...so I had yards and yards of it...and we left it in the garage for the new pastor's family in case they wanted to use it in their garden...

...so I've been making my little scrubbies out of onion bags...it's free and easy and I always have them on hand...

...this is just your generic 3 lb. bag of yellow onions in a sort of plastic netting bag...

...I just snip off the little metal staples that close the ends...

...and you can see that it is just a rectangular tube of netting...

...then I just start at the bottom and cut it into one long strip about an inch wide...I must say that I'm not too careful with this - it doesn't have to be exact because you sort of scrunch up the strip while you're crocheting...

...I get about 18 feet of 'yarn' from one onion bag...and it takes 2 onion bags to make a good sized scrubbie...

...even a little bag of shallots yields several feet of 'yarn'...

...so I'll just use that up to keep from throwing it away too...

...then I just crochet a basic circle...

...when I come to the end of the first strip...

...I just lay another stip on top of it and keep going...

...I just crochet until my 'thread' runs out and I don't worry too much about any colour variation between the bags...

...it's so handy to keep a scrubby thingy beside the sink...

Dishy Scrubby Thingy Pattern

Chain 5 and join to form a ring.
Rnd 1: 8 sc in ring.
Rnd 2: ch 1, 2 sc in ea sc around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 3: ch 1, (sc in next sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 4: ch 1, (sc in ea of next 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 5: ch 1, (sc in ea of next 3 sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 6: ch 1, (sc in ea of next 4 sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 7: ch 1, (sc in ea of next 5 sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 8: ch 1, (sc in ea of next 6 sc, 2 sc in next sc) around. Sl st in first sc, to join. Pull the little tail of yarn back through the stitch and tuck it into the crochet and you're done...

~Have a lovely day!