Dishcloths and scrubbies

I took a break from crocheting pillows and went back to dishcloths for awhile,

trying to decide on something fun to make next that wasn't a pillow.

But then I discovered scrubby yarn and got distracted.

Scrubby yarn is not for sissies, unless said sissy has better than 20/20 vision.

Lordy, this stuff can be hard to work with. 

I happened upon a tip sheet before starting my first scrubby, which suggested

pairing it with cotton yarn so that you could see the stitches. Totally works.

My first attempts have passed the get-the-dried-egg-off-the-dish test,

so I'll bundle a couple of these with a couple of almost-color-coordinated dishcloths

as the prize for the guess-the-expiration-date-on-the-parsley-flakes contest

announced yesterday. A run-on sentence with 15 hyphens. That may be a record for me. 

Submit your guess in the comments of yesterday's post by 7 mountain time tonight

if you want to play along.

As for the post-pillow, next big crochet project, there is a blanket in the works:

I'm using the same stitch that I use for the dishcloths and scrubbies, except on a much larger scale.