Week 4 and 5: Facial Cleansing Pads and Holder

This week is a double header! But don't get too excited, it's only because I missed last week's due to a fabulous 60s party.

Week 4: Facial Cleansing Pads

     This is a pretty useful project, especially if you have oily skin, where lots of make up or just wash your face often. I had seen a few photos of these while browsing for dish cloth patterns several months ago and logged it away in my brain as a "someday it would be nice to make these", and well that some day finally arrived.  I tried a few variations and experimented on a few different shapes until I settled on the most functional ones.  Here are the results:

I used Bernat Cotton for all the Scrubbies/Cleansing Pads, the hook size varied per pattern.  Photo captions are linked (except Simple Round, I wrote the pattern beneath it)

Puffy Flower Tawashi

Simple Round Cloth

 This one was pretty easy but proved to be the most useful/efficient

I used a J/10-6.00mm hook [for both the Simple Round Cloth (above) and the Little Flowers (below).]

Chain 4
12 dc in 4th chain from hook, sl st into first dc
ch 3, 2 dc in each dc of previous row, join with sl st
cut and weave in end

Little Flower Cloth

     So far they work great and I'm lovin' them!

Week 5:  Facial Cleansing Pad Holder

     Now that you've made the Cleansing Pads you need somewhere to keep them.  Well here you go:

     I used Red Heart Acrylic pink yarn to match the scrubbies somewhat. Original pattern linked below, I used the pattern's recommended size hook.

     I based this item on the pattern found here.  After row 5 I just continued with the dc (basically repeated row 5 another 3 or 4 times).  Once I got to the height I wanted I finished off with the same cotton yarn I used for the Cleansing Pads but in a shell pattern:

Join yarn to work, Chain 1, dc in 2nd st from hook, 4 dc in same st, * sk next st, sc in next st, sk next st 5 dc in next st repeat from * to end.  Cut and weave in ends.

     And all together now:

     Like I said, I'm quite happy with the outcome of this project and use it daily :)  I hope some of you find it just as useful and fun to make.  It was a very quick project to make, took a couple hours in total and very well worth the effort.

     So that's the project for the week, hope you all enjoy!

Keep Crafty Everyone!

Week 2: Pretty Headbands

Week 2: Pretty Headbands

     This week I worked on a much smaller project: simple headbands with small flowers.  I'm hoping to get a little more creative with this idea in the future, provided something else doesn't snatch away my volatile attention.  I'd like to make some with different flowers, different colours, lots of flowers, different band pattern, ect... For now, here is what I've got for a pattern.  

     This pattern is 100% HN&S, I browsed photos for ideas then just came up with this.  Feel free to use it as a base then tweak it to make it your own.  I'd love to hear of any projects made and evolved from this simple pattern.  You can leave a comment here on the blog or message me privately at HookNeedleSpindle@gmail.com  Enjoy!

Pattern:

Materials used:

5.00 mm crochet hook (size H/8)

1 skein pink

1 skein light green

1 skein dark green

* any scraps will do, this pattern doesn't require much yarn*

Headband:

Chain 105 bind off.

Count 32 from each end and mark the loop.

Start at chain 32, attach same colour yarn and do slipstich through next stitch (stitch 33). Crochet as follows: slip stitch (in chain 34), single crochet (in 35), single crochet (in 35), half double (in 36), half double (in 36), double crochet (in 37), double crochet (in 37), triple crochet ( in 38), continue to triple crochet in stitches until stitch 59, triple crochet (in 59), double crochet (in 60), double crochet (in 61), half double (in 62), half double (in 63), single crochet (in 64), single crochet (in 65), slip stitch (in 66), slip stitch (in 67), slip stitch and bind off in 68 (same stitch as second marked loop)

Flower:

Chain 5, join to form ring.  In ring fit the following, *Sc, hlfdbl, dc(x3), hlfdbl, sc, repeat from * 3 more times, bind off. You now have a a four petaled flower. in a contrasting colour.  Sew the flower to the headband and you're done!

     This post is a rather quick one as I have to get up early for work tomorrow, but I hope to have a little more detail and some better pics up later in the week.

Thanks for checking in, hope all is well, and of course, Keep Crafty Everyone!